A June 16 report summarizing three agencies with essential occupations that cannot be done remotely, including air traffic controllers, indicates the FAA in particular isn't ready and believes long-term use of respirators during a pandemic is impractical.
Widespread climate impacts are already occurring and affecting water, energy, and transportation, the government's new report states.
"When did you first learn about the swine flu outbreak? Have you searched the Internet for additional information on the swine flu outbreak? If a vaccine for swine flu became available, would you want to be vaccinated?"
These questions first appeared on Facebook on Saturday, April 25, just a day or two after concerns of H1N1, or swine flu, swept across the country.
The goal of this week is to heighten awareness of preventable health problems and encourage early detection and treatment of disease among men and boys.
The Food and Drug Administration recently warned nine companies to stop manufacturing 14 unapproved narcotic drugs that are marketed in several dosage forms and are widely used to treat pain.
"Determining the extent of an injury quickly and effectively is critical to getting the player the best course of action and onto the road to recovery," said Yankees team physician Christopher Ahmad, M.D.
"Management and labor working together has resulted in an injury and illness rate that is 86 percent below the national average for the postal industry," said Richard S. Terrill, OSHA's regional administrator in Seattle.
"This is a major threat," says Teresa Dwyer, CSP. "It can cost several hundreds of dollars to have a professional remove an AHB hive and, without the correct protective equipment and training, the potential rescuer may become an additional victim."
The Food and Drug Administration announced recently that Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory Inc. of Roy, Utah, is voluntarily recalling some skin sanitizers and skin protectants marketed under several different brand names because of high levels of disease-causing bacteria found in the product during a recent inspection. FDA is warning consumers to not use any Clarcon products.
With 25,288 confirmed cases of influenza A(H1N1) as of June 8, the threat of a serious outbreak has not disappeared, says pandemic expert Dr. Maurice A. Ramirez. He recommends offering a "flu benefit" and says employers should prepare for having 30 percent of their workers unavailable because of flu.
The pandemic flu session will focus on industry approaches toward interactions with FDA, and the latest biochemical methods for the development of vaccines.
The study further showed that patients do not know what CPR really involves, which may affect a patient's choice about whether to have 'do not resuscitate' orders if they are dying.
In response to the need for expanded monitoring and reporting of health care-associated infections (HAIs), the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) recently announced its support for the use of automated surveillance technologies in the health care setting as an essential part of infection prevention and control activities. The recommendations are published in the APIC position paper, "The Importance of Surveillance Technologies in the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAIs)."
According to a study in The New England Journal of Medicine, a new congressional mandate changing hospital reimbursement made by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services could inadvertently reverse tremendous progress in reducing the use of physical restraints among hospitalized elderly patients.
The Food and Drug Administration has received 23 reports of serious health problems ranging from jaundice and elevated liver enzymes, an indicator of potential liver injury, to liver damage requiring liver transplant. One death due to liver failure has been reported.
The economy, the state of U.S. public health, and workers' interest in better living have combined to make wellness incentives hot this year.
For many organizations, buying automated external defibrillators (AEDs) is the purchase of a bigticket item. For most consumers, a car is a big-ticket item. But buying AEDs is not at all like buying cars, where the effort ends when you park it in your garage for the first time. From then on, all you need to do is drive it around and put oil in it.
Whatever can you do to get a handle on safety? Specifically, to prevent injuries to fingers, wrists, hands, and arms that are common to many industries, especially where people use hand tools, assemble, work on machines, lift, load, cut, push, pull, and more?
Since the publication of our first article ("Vision Testing: A Blind Spot in Occupational Safety," February 2009, page 47), we have been asked many questions, and most people wanted references to the research data.