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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.
January 30, 2009
Category: Blog roundup
Bloggers have a lot of thoughts about the stimulus package: Sarah Rubenstein at WSJ's Health Blog explains plans to divide extra Medicaid funds among states. Cristina Page at RH Reality Check explains the alleged $200 million for contraceptive coverage. Mike Dunford...
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January 29, 2009
This post is part of a “global health blog carnival” effort that Christine Gorman at Global Health Report has just launched. The theme for today’s posts is “prevention vs. treatment” – visit this post for links all participating posts. Although my...
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by revere, cross-posted at Effect Measure A powerful Editorial in today's Nature (the world's premier science publication) shines a strong light on a tragic violation of human rights in Iran involving two leading AIDS physicians, brothers Arash and Kamiar Alaei....
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January 28, 2009
Category: Consumer Product Safety Commission
By Jerome Paulson Starting on February 10th, companies won't be able to sell children's products that contain more than 600 parts per million total lead. The Consumer Product Safety Commission recently clarified the requirements under the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act,...
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We’re delighted to learn that The Pump Handle’s own David Michaels has won the John P. McGovern Science and Society Award from Sigma Xi, the international honor society of research scientists and engineers. The award honors people who are highly...
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by revere, cross-posted at Effect Measure Even as the the peanut cum salmonella recall spreads (sorry, couldn't resist), we learn that the Peanut Corporation of America plant in Blakely, Georgia thought to be its source has a history of "problems":...
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January 27, 2009
The influential left-wing blog Daily Kos has been running a series called "Flu and You" by health blogger DemFromCT, and this week's installment features an interview with one of the reveres from Effect Measure, who often cross-post here. The whole...
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January 26, 2009
Category: Regulation
Legal scholars with the Center for Progressive Reform issued today "The Choices Facing Cass Sunstein," an assessment of the writings of President Obama's nominee for the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). The authors reviewed Prof. Sunstein's...
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Category: Infectious Diseases
by revere, cross-posted at Effect Measure The peanut butter/peanut paste ingredient based salmonella outbreak has been in the news lately and we've discussed it here (and here, here, here, here, here). There are now about 500 reported cases and six...
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Category: Confined Space @ TPH
Back in July, a 300-foot crane collapsed at a Houston refinery and killed four workers: Marion “Scooter” Hubert Odom III, 41; John D. Henry, 33; Daniel “DJ” Lee Johnson, 30; and Rocky Dale Strength, 30. Now, federal regulators have reported...
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