Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald has been the commissioner of the Georgia Department of Public Health and the state health officer for the past six years.
The monitoring will occur under the Federal Employees' Compensation Act.
The new requirements require nicotine-containing products or their packaging to be child-resistant and tamper evident, ban certain ingredients, include new labeling requirements and warnings, and also require all e-cigarettes and e-liquids be notified to MHRA before they can be sold.
The CET Gold Award criteria include having an effective Safety and Health Management System. MIOSHA staff consult with Gold awardees and evaluate their SHMS to ensure that key elements are implemented.
The event included a discussion on amendments of Directive 2004/37/EC, which protects workers from the risks related to exposure to carcinogens or mutagens at work, and the challenges of its implementation in Romania.
The announced change to its policy on how the agency prioritizes its review of generic drug applications means FDA will expedite the review of generic drug applications until there are three approved generics for a given drug product.
"CDC's Ebola exhibition shows what it was like 'inside the outbreak' for one of the world's worst public health emergencies," said CDC Acting Director Dr. Anne Schuchat, M.D. "I hope people will leave the museum recognizing that, with commitment and will, working together, we can change the world and make it a safer, healthier place for everyone."
The drop includes the use of e-cigarettes.
CDC's 2018 Yellow Book is now available for free via download or for order in hard copy.
FDA will use the July 10-11 meeting to engage outside experts in a discussion of how it can better leverage existing data sources and methods to evaluate the impact of these products in the real world and what new data sources and study designs could be used to ensure the efforts result in the best possible answers to inform regulatory decision-making.
The governor's declaration gives Arizona the ability to coordinate public health efforts between state, local, and private-sector partners and allows the state to utilize all of its public health resources, including by distributing naloxone throughout the community. The declaration and enhanced surveillance advisory will provide for enhanced reporting of overdose deaths from doctors and hospitals.
The agency's experts have grouped antibiotics into three categories – ACCESS, WATCH, and RESERVE – with recommendations on when each category should be used. This change aims to ensure that antibiotics are available when needed, reduce the development of drug-resistant bacteria, and preserve the effectiveness of "last resort" antibiotics.
"Everything here is water-related, which tends to be the case with health care," said Bryan E. Christensen, an industrial hygienist and epidemiologist with CDC's National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases. "There really needs to be an increased role for the industrial hygiene field at health care facilities. It's something that needs more emphasis going forward."
Americans have been encouraged to make safety resolutions and break bad habits.
The UN agency has called for the tobacco industry to compensate for its products that are harmful.
"This is an important first for the cancer community," said Dr. Richard Pazdur, MD, acting director of the Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research and director of FDA's Oncology Center of Excellence. "Until now, the FDA has approved cancer treatments based on where in the body the cancer started—for example, lung or breast cancers. We have now approved a drug based on a tumor's biomarker without regard to the tumor's original location."
Health Canada also this month announced changes to the Food and Drug Regulations that will better protect Canadians against the risk of antimicrobial resistance by better controlling access to veterinary antimicrobial drugs for food-producing animals.
The budget requests funding that will help workers develop skills to meet the 21st economy’s demand.
This year's meeting is the final one with Dr. Margaret Chan as director-general of WHO. She told the delegates that countries should work to improve their collection of health data and should make health strategies more accountable.
The CDC is recommending retesting for children, pregnant women and nursing mothers