Published jointly Oct. 29 by the World Health Organization and the World Meteorological Organization, it contains maps, tables, and graphs showing links between health and climate around the world.
Many EMS professionals complete skill refreshers every 90 days to keep their skills current. A hands-on skill session every 90 days is ideal for workplace lay responders.
Writing in the Fall 2012 issue of Johns Hopkins Public Health, Dean Michael J. Klag calls for the same kind of collaboration as has been used to reduce annual traffic deaths significantly.
Moreover, 20 percent of people said in the survey they are concerned for their physical safety in the workplace.
The Form 483 posted by the agency covers five October inspections of the Framingham, Mass., compounding pharmacy.
Certain Samaritan 300/300P PAD public access defibrillators made before December 2010 intermittently turn on and off, which eventually may deplete their batteries, the company announced.
The Centers for Health and Public Safety is joining Emergency University to raise awareness about preventable deaths.
Employers still would have to ensure they have an adequate number of trained first aid staffers as identified in their needs assessment. The earliest the law could change is April 2013.
The Sanford and Susan Greenberg Prize, $2 million in gold bullion, will go to the person or group deemed most responsible for ending blindness by Dec. 13, 2020.
Used for dental procedures, the devices have been recalled by Accutron, Inc. following two customer complaints that the device was flowing nitrous oxide gas without any oxygen gas flow.
These cases were in 16 states of the 23 where the New England Compounding Center's preservative-free methylprednisolone acetate solution was distributed.
"His outrage at the needless deaths and injuries in the nation's coal mines led him to take a leadership role in improving mine health and safety laws," UMWA International President Cecil E. Roberts said of the late former Sen. Arlen Specter.
Dr. Cecil B. Wilson, who was the American Medical Association's president in 2010-2011, also identified ethics in medicine and the threat of climate change as major challenges facing the world and the medical profession.
A new study by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and Dutch colleagues found that regional density of livestock is an important risk factor for people without direct contact with the animals.
CDC, DOL, FDA, and more than a dozen other agencies are participating in the Oct. 31-Nov. 2 event.
A study in the Bulletin of the World Health Organization estimates 65,000 additional optometrists, ophthalmologists, optical dispensers, and other eye-care professionals would be needed to provide these services.
Only 34 countries around the world generate high-quality data about cause of death, according to the organization.
CDC's MMWR reported the vaccination rate among long-term care physicians and nurses was only 50.2 percent in its 2012 survey, lowest among surveyed health care workers.
In a crashless world, U.S. emergency rooms won't have to treat more than 2 million crash victims per year as they do now.
The agency confirmed the direct final rule it issued on this took effect May 7, 2012. It also has approved applications for all 45,000 Veterans Retraining Assistance Program slots available this fiscal year.