Local lawmakers move to ban California’s killer rock
California has a killer state rock.
Archive for the ‘Worker Safety’ Category
Pig brain splatter confirmed as cause of illness in slaughterhouse workers.
After two years of research, health investigators have reported that slaughterhouse workers that suffered debilitating diseases of their nervous system were exposed to microscopic particles of pig brain.
If your body is a temple, than that temple may be contaminated with toxic chemicals
It’s only a snapshot, but 20 physicians and nurses from ten states allowed their bodily fluids to be tested for the presence of chemicals that are linked to health problems and are everywhere in our environment. All the medical professional were found to have surprising levels of toxic chemicals in their systems.
California finally moves to control butter flavoring and end popcorn lung. What about the rest of the U.S.?
Why is it taking years to protect workers and consumers from illness and death from butter flavoring used in thousands of foods?
Super masks for protecting against H1N1 flu may not be as good as touted.
Here’s a fact: all influenza, not just H1N1, is mostly transmitted by breathing particles of the virus from those with the disease.
It’s official. Flu season is here.
No, I can’t answer the question of why you got the flu last month when the flu season didn’t officially begin until Sunday.
Can EPA and the White House buck industry pressure to prevent regulation of nanotechnology?
Many public health activists cheered this week’s announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency that it plans to actually move ahead with research to better understand how manufactured nanomaterials may harm human health and the environment.
Swine flu vaccine is almost ready, but preparations for treating masses of pandemic victims is going far too slowly.
The tortuously protracted, unalterable progress of the growth of the first batches of H1N1 vaccine is almost over. Everyone concerned about the looming pandemic is closely watching the vaccine as it finally leaves it laboratory birthplace and is shipped to 90,000 health departments, hospitals and doctor’s offices that will administer the immunization.
What’s not getting the [...]
Swine flu body count increases as U.S. gives vaccine overseas to thwart an even more virulent strain from emerging.
That’s only a drop in the bucket when it comes to what the world needs to control the evolving influenza pandemic, said the head of the World Health Organization as she praised the U.S. and nine other countries for donating vaccine to fight the spreading H1N1 flu.
Current supplies of pandemic vaccine are inadequate for a [...]
Asbestos warning finally issued by Surgeon General, or was it?
After years of cajoling from the U.S. Senate and pleading from health activists, the Office of the Surgeon General finally warned the public of the dangers of asbestos.
Back in April, then-acting Surgeon General Steven Galson issued a statement about the deadly fiber and the illness it causes.
It wasn’t literature. Just 341 words explaining the most [...]
