WHO's Global Tuberculosis Report 2014 shows 9 million people developed tuberculosis in 2013 and 1.5 million died.
A statement from the National Safety Council is directed toward health care employers whose workers have a risk of exposure.
The progress comes despite pressure from the tobacco industry, according to WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan.
"We are committed to maintaining a strong collaborative effort to address this public health threat," the American Medical Association, American Hospital Association, and American Nurses Association say in an Oct. 16 joint statement.
The organization represents more than 300,000 full-time firefighters and paramedics in the United States and Canada.
She had flown to Dallas from Cleveland on Oct. 13, and CDC is asking all 132 passengers on that flight to get in touch so they can be interviewed.
President Obama was briefed Sunday by HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell and ordered federal authorities to take immediate additional steps to ensure hospitals and health care providers nationwide are prepared to follow protocols should they encounter an Ebola patient.
The first is an online memorial to the estimated 20 million Americans who have died from smoking or secondhand smoke since the first Surgeon General's report on smoking and health 50 years ago.
With hydrocodone combination products being moved to Schedule II, Americans may not be able to refill their prescriptions.
There is $500,000 available from the Michigan Occupational Safety and Health Administration for these grants, which are part of the agency’s celebration of the 40th anniversary of Michigan's program for workplace safety and health.
A CDC analysis of death certificate date from the states showed that despite the spiking heroin overdose fatality rate, twice as many people died from prescription opioid overdoses in those states during 2012.
The agency is seeking a permanent injunction, and its complaint states that FDA is aware of people who were infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa after surgical procedures at a Michigan hospital involving one of the company's products.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention held a Twitter chat Oct. 2, using the hashtag #CDCchat, to answer questions about Ebola.
The study will be published in November in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Hygiene.
More than 80 percent of the 10,536 ballots cast were in favor of a strike, and more than 90 percent supported industrial action short of a strike, the Royal College of Midwives announced Sept. 29.
All 50 states and some large cities are benefiting from these grants, announced Sept. 25.
The Canton, Ohio, aluminum plant company has been placed in OSHA’s Severe Violator Enforcement Program.
The A(H5N6) strain has been detected in poultry in three countries in Southeast Asia, the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization announced Sept. 22.
President Obama signed it Sept. 18 and the administration released its national strategy the same day.
Funded entirely by the $650,000 grant, the new initiative will enable the national network of local committees on occupational safety and health to offer new and expanded training, provide technical assistance, and build capacity to reach at-risk workers.