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Liz Borkowski is a Research Associate at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She lives in Washington, DC and loves public transportation and pumpkin empanadas.
Celeste Monforton, DrPH, MPH is a Professorial Lecturer at the George Washington University School of Public Health's Department of Environmental and Occupational Health. She also spent a decade working for the US Department of Labor, and has served on the teams investigating the 2006 Sago mine disaster and 2010 Upper Big Branch mine disaster for the state of West Virginia.
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- Nine chronic diseases and their varied impacts
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- Worth Reading: Alcohol in homeless shelters, fossil-fuel subsidies, and "suicide mosquitoes"
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December 24, 2006
December 22, 2006
Union Petition for Diacetyl Standard Advances in California
Category: Regulation
By David Michaels In July, two unions, backed by a group of scientists, petitioned both federal OSHA and California OSHA to issue rules to protect workers from diacetyl, the chemical implicated in dozens of cases of lung disease in the...
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Friday Blog Roundup
Category: Environmental Health
The biggest news in science and public health was the tragic, though not unexpected, guilty verdict in the Libyan trial of six medics accused of deliberately infecting patients with HIV. Several members of the scientific community, mobilized by Nature reporter...
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December 21, 2006
Data Dredging at VaxGen
Category: Infectious Diseases
By David Michaels It came as no surprise to some observers that VaxGen (a biotech company in Brisbane, California) failed to meet the specifications of its contract to provide the US government with 75 million doses of a new anthrax...
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December 20, 2006
Historical lessons from 1918 reviewed by IOM
by Revere, cross-posted at Effect Measure We continue our summary of the Institute of Medicine "Letter Report" on non-drug non-vaccine measures to slow or contain the spread of an influenza pandemic of a severity similar or worse than that of...
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Hotel Workers Rising! Part 2
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Thousands of hotel workers in Boston are awaiting the results of contract negotiations between Unite Here! Local 26 and the city’s major hotel operators. Although their current contract expired on November 30, both sides agreed to extend it until February...
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December 19, 2006
Influenza models examined by IOM
Category: Infectious Diseases
by Revere, cross-posted on Effect Measure On December 11, The Institute of Medicine, one of the four constituent parts of the National Academies of Science, released a "letter report" reviewing the scant information on effects from non-drug measures to slow...
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December 17, 2006
Bombs, bullets, billions
by Revere and cross-posted at Effect Measure on October 24, 2006 An urgent communication from the World Health Organization (WHO) expresses concisely how far behind we are in being prepared for a global pandemic of influenza. Currently there are a...
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December 16, 2006
Gag the scientists, shutter the libraries
Category: Environmental Protection Agency
by Revere, cross-posted at Effect Measure The Bush Administration hates science. Science is reality-based and some truths are politically inconvenient. But there are things that can be done. Like this:...
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December 15, 2006
Frances Perkins is Rolling in Her Grave
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Earlier this week, the Bush Administration released its semi-annual regulatory plan (71 Federal Register 72725, Dec 11, 2006). The 473-page document describes the President’s regulatory priorities, with the “aim of implementing an effective and results-oriented regulatory system.” The document, prepared...
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