The independent, nonfederal, volunteer body of public health and prevention experts has determined that commercial host liability, otherwise known as dram shop liability, can be an effective intervention for reducing alcohol-related harms.
NIOSH crash tests revealed the possibility of head injury if a worker’s head strikes the cabinets immediately above or behind them, and noted that vehicle structural failures can be a contributing factor in adverse outcomes of EMS crashes.
The Guidelines include recommendations on musculoskeletal injuries, aerobic exercise for knee arthritis, and postsurgical rehabilitation.
The study found that health care workers perceived surfaces as safer to touch than patient skin, in spite of research that has proven touching one contaminated surface can spread bacteria to up to the next seven surfaces touched.
The new bacterium, not yet named, has been identified in more than 25 people and found in black-legged ticks, also known as deer ticks, in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Severe stings occur most frequently in infants and children, and untreated cases can be fatal.
The national health reform plan announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and Minister for Health and Ageing Nicola Roxon will deliver an extra $175 billion to public hospitals through 2030.
About half of the states are at risk of dengue fever outbreaks, the analysis of CDC and National Climatic Data Center data indicates.
“While we have made great strides in creating separate cultures of safety and wellness in the United States in recent decades, the two have yet to meet and merge into a truly sustainable culture of health," said Pamela Hymel, M.D., the paper’s lead author.
The Food and Drug Administration will host it from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 26 in Silver Spring, Md.
The majority of people who experience an OHCA event do not receive bystander-assisted cardiopulmonary resuscitation or other timely interventions that improve the likelihood of survival to hospital discharge.
“We found that the association between one of your parents having a heart attack and you having a heart attack was a lot stronger than the association between your parent having a stroke and you having a stroke,” said senior author Peter M. Rothwell, M.D., Ph.D.
With record high temperatures nationwide and reports of 21 hyperthermia-related child deaths already this summer, NHTSA recently convened a roundtable with key stakeholders to help step up efforts to prevent these deaths.
The World Health Organization's director-general appointed Sir Liam Donaldson to the post on July 21.
Women were twice as likely as men to suffer depression, and the major contributing factor was loss of a partner because of death, divorce, or separation.
This first periodic review provides a summary of the current scientific and medical findings in the peer-reviewed literature about exposures resulting from the Sept.11, 2001, terrorist attacks in New York City and cancer studies.
More than a million of these inaccurate blood tests are carried out annually to diagnose active TB, often at great financial cost to patients.
In an observational study, a nationally representative group of 6,044 adults over age 50 rated their optimism levels on a 16-point scale. Each point increase in optimism corresponded to a 9 percent decrease in acute stroke risk over a two-year follow-up period.
"Rarely does a summer pass without reports of serious burns sustained during camping trips, and sadly we do hear about fatalities from fires that have ripped through tents or caravans, often accelerated due to the explosion of fuel canisters," said Peter Cornall, RoSPA’s head of leisure safety.
Possible reasons for the link between height and cancer risk include hormone levels related to childhood growth, and in turn to cancer risk in later life. It was also suggested that the link could simply be down to the fact that taller people have more cells in their bodies, and so a greater chance of developing cancerous cell changes.