It addresses the various hazards encountered in group homes, such as infectious diseases, slips and falls, and patient lifting injuries.
Breo Ellipta has been approved for long-term, once-daily maintenance treatment of airflow obstruction in patients.
The agency's proposed order would require labels that include a recommendation warning young people not to use them.
The May 9 hearing follows introduction of a bill by four members of the committee to clarify state and federal authorities' oversight responsibilities.
The first meeting of representatives from 16 occupational medical societies took place last week at ACOEM's annual meeting. They agreed the estimated 270 million occupational accidents and 160 million occupationally related diseases annually around the world make the case for societies to share resources and information.
The agency urges patients to participate in hand hygiene to encourage overall safety.
Standing outside the pharmacy, what should have been recognized as warning signs became boldly obvious and I felt embarrassment for thinking, just 10 minutes prior, that I felt fine.
"We have always had a one-size-fits-all approach, blanketing a whole area with CPR training, and we assume that will get to everyone," said Dr. Comilla Sasson, M.D., MS, the statement's lead author.
The agency also highlighted the threat of antimalarial drug resistance in the Greater Mekong subregion, where the emergency response has begun.
Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, M.D., says the site is an interactive tool for educating patients, patient advocates, and consumers on how medications and medical devices "move from the realm of idea to the realm of the marketplace."
"Emergency systems everywhere should aspire to be Boston strong," the magazine's editorial states.
The Oklahoma State Department of Health and the Tulsa Health Department announced the first round of results April 18 from testing completed on 3,122 people who had been patients of W. Scott Harrington's dental surgical practice.
The American Heart Association's chief science officer, Dr. Rose Marie Robertson, is the author of the "Making the Case for Continuous Learning from Routinely Collected Health Data" discussion paper:
Itar-Tass reports the body temperature of passengers arriving from China is being measured at border checkpoints.
The EML is intended as a model to help countries develop their own lists to prioritize medicines useful in meeting health needs.
Lobbyists were denied a case before the Supreme Court to refute the EPA’s regulations of air pollution.
The ISEA First Aid Product Group's members are now working on the 2014 edition of the American national standard specifying minimum requirements for the contents of workplace first aid kits.
The Tulsa Health Department and the Oklahoma State Department of Health are notifying that many patients of a dental practice about potential exposure to bloodborne viruses.
Scores rose for most of the federal agencies involved with safety and health – including NTSB, the National Institutes of Health, the Food Safety and Inspection Service, the National Nuclear Security Administration, FAA, and CDC.
CDC began developing Botulism Antitoxin Heptavalent about 10 years ago, and it became one of the first medical countermeasures approved for advanced development and procurement under Project BioShield, in 2006.