The work at the San Antonio Military Medical Center is aimed at finding the best treatment for combat veterans experiencing mild traumatic brain injury symptoms as much as two years after their injuries.
“The Salina Fire Department Hazmat Response Team is a proven leader in community involvement, education, emergency communications, and implementing cutting edge technologies,” said Ken Isman, chair of the Warren E. Isman Task Force.
The rule provides minimum requirements for developing a hazardous drugs control program. Employers, using a hazard assessment, will put programs in place to minimize or eliminate the hazardous exposures to their employees.
Delta, Northwest, and Continental kept their pension plans going after their bankruptcies, and so should American Airlines, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Director Josh Gotbaum said in a Jan. 12 statement.
The new report includes updated recommendations for individual choices regarding diet and physical activity patterns, but emphasizes that those choices occur within a community context that can either help or hinder healthy behaviors.
The new study suggests that genetic and other familial factors play little if any role in long-term disability risk.
In the 2010 resuscitation guidelines, the American Heart Association advised 911 dispatchers to help bystanders assess anyone who may have had a cardiac arrest and then direct them to begin CPR. “I think it’s a call to arms,” said E. Brooke Lerner, Ph.D., lead author of the statement and associate professor of emergency medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
“Eight years of being worse or second-worst in death-on-the-job is proof that there’s a problem in Wyoming that needs to be remedied,” said Wyoming AFL-CIO Executive Secretary Kim Floyd.
The 10,000-square-foot Mabee EMS Training Center located in Grand Prairie includes a hangar for helicopter training, a vehicle bay for ground ambulance training, patient simulator labs, and classrooms.
The seminal 1999 report from the Institute of Medicine helped to spur initiatives focused on medical errors at hospitals. Now, experts want similar efforts to target problems in ambulatory care.
According to the study, prepackaged microwavable soups, especially noodle soups, are a frequent cause of scald burn injuries because they can easily tip over, pouring hot liquid and noodles on a person.
The authors argue that robust evidence showing cognitive decline before the age of 60 has important ramifications because it demonstrates the importance of promoting healthy lifestyles, particularly cardiovascular health.
Noncommunicable diseases such as diabetes and cancer cause more than 60 percent of all deaths in the six GCC countries -- Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates.
"The A10 standards play an important role in providing technical guidance to the construction and demolition industry in order to prevent occupational fatalities, injuries, and illnesses,” said Richard King, chair of the A10 Committee.
The federal agency funded research that paired antibiotics with bactericidal/permeability-increasing protein (BPI), which is a protein found in immune systems. It increased the survival rates of mice exposed to toxic levels of radiation to nearly 80 percent, DARPA announced Jan. 4.
The goals took effect Jan. 1. A new one this year is focused on catheter-associated urinary tract infections for the hospital and critical access hospital accreditation programs.
A year after the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act of 2010 was signed into law, NIOSH has awarded several contracts and helped the program's Scientific/Technical Advisory Committee begin its work.
Heart attacks were responsible for the deaths of 48 firefighters (59 percent) in 2011, nearly the same proportion of firefighter deaths from heart attack or stroke (60 percent) in 2010.
New York City leaders announced preliminary statistics on Dec. 29 that show the city recorded the fewest annual traffic fatalities since records were first kept in 1910. Fire deaths in 2011 were the second-lowest number on record.
Researchers based their findings on data from surveys of more than 600 employees and company records from Best Buy before and after the implementation of a “Results Only Work Environment” (ROWE) workplace initiative.