The report says the estimated cost of infectious diseases in the United States exceeds $120 billion annually.
Ranking Democrat on the U.S. House Committee on Energy and Commerce, he has played a leading role in enacting major environmental and health laws for decades.
The Xinhua news agency reported China has banned trading of live birds in some regions as the number of infections and deaths has increased.
They have a high potential for abuse, no currently accepted medical use in treatment in the United States, and a lack of accepted safety for use under medical supervision. This action is a precursor to permanent listing.
Mayo Clinic researchers performed a meta-analysis of 36 studies involving 1.9 million patients with acute myocardial infarction. They found differences in mortality between those arriving at the hospital in off-hours and regular hours have increased in recent years.
The federal agency's most recent FluView report indicates flu activity is high overall across the country and will remain so for some time.
The agency released a study that found long-haul truck drivers are twice as likely to be obese when compared to the rest of the working population.
Resources available on the site, www.osha.gov/hospitals, will dovetail with efforts hospitals already are making to prevent worker injuries from patient moving, slips and falls, needlesticks, and more.
The first report on smoking and health was released Jan. 11, 1964. Since then, no other issue has engaged the U.S. surgeons general more than smoking.
The organization publishes the results following a public presentation in Endicott, NY.
The agency approves Farxiga tablets, designed to help glycemic control.
A national campaign started in 133 VA long-term care facilities four years ago reduced them by 36 percent, according to a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control.
The city of Los Angeles' Attorney's Office has sued AllenCo Energy.
The agency will host a meeting to present the results of a health study done on former workers at an IBM facility.
The new semiannual regulatory agenda updates OSHA's plans for the injury and illness prevention program rule.
Two significant OSHA rulemaking actions took center stage in late 2013, which may be remembered as a milestone year for recordkeeping changes. Also, DOL issued a rule that makes direct care workers eligible for overtime and minimum wage protection.
Poudre Valley Hospital is recommending the testing for 210 former patients who were treated in its intensive care unit between Sept. 1, 2011, and Aug. 28, 2012. A former employee suspected of diverting prescription painkillers may have put them at risk of exposure.
The agency's latest labor force and employment projections assume the economy will have reached full employment by that year.
The defendant "showed up with visible cuts and other injuries that he claimed to have suffered in construction accidents from November 2012 through February 2013" and talked medical staffers into treating him and prescribing the drugs, according to the Washington state Department of Labor & Industries.
The product named Mass Destruction contains at least one synthetic anabolic steroid and has been linked to one case of a user’s liver failure.