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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.
May 29, 2009
by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure As flu season ramps up in the southern hemisphere, the US, Europe and Asia are keeping an eye on it to see what will happen as swine flu finds new pieces of meat to...
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May 28, 2009
Category: Confined Space @ TPH
Discarded computers, mobile phones, and TVs from consumers in developed countries often wind up in developing world, where workers – some of them children – disassemble the electronic waste to extract metal and other valuable materials. Usually working without any...
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By Alison Bass (cross-posted) In order to truly stabilize the economy and rescue Medicare from financial collapse, the Obama administration knows it has to do something about the elephant in the room: ever-rising health care costs. In this week's New...
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May 27, 2009
by revere, cross-posted from Effect Measure Yesterday New York reported two more swine flu deaths (a 41-year-old woman from Queens and a 34-year-old man from Brooklyn). CDC and just about everyone else who knows anything about influenza have been telling...
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May 26, 2009
Last week, the House Energy and Commerce Committee passed the American Clean Energy and Security Act (aka the Waxman-Markey bill), which sets up a cap-and-trade system to cut greenhouse-gas emissions 17% below 2005 levels by 2020 and 83% by 2050....
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May 24, 2009
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
By Ellen Smith The nation may have a new President with grand ideas about the Freedom of Information Act, but let’s be clear: at MSHA, nothing regarding FOIA has changed. The same people are still in charge of FOIA, offering ridiculous...
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May 22, 2009
Category: Flavoring Workers' Lung (Popcorn/Diacetyl)
A few days ago, I expressed my annoyance with OSHA about its SBREFA meeting on the draft proposed rule on diacetyl, the lung-damaging, butter-tasting food additive. OSHA had announced earlier in the year that this pre-proposal dialogue with small employer would be "open to the...
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Category: Occupational Health & Safety
By Bill Borwegen While the news coming out of California this week has focused on the budget crisis, something else of historic importance in advancing worker protections was achieved by California’s healthcare workers. Yesterday in a 6-0 vote, the CalOSHA...
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Alison Bass directs our attention to the tragic story of Denis Maltez, a 12-year-old Miami boy who died of serotonin syndrome after being given two anti-psychotic medications (Seroquel and Zyprexa) plus an anti-seizure drug and tranquilizer. Serotonin syndrome occurs when...
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May 21, 2009
Category: Environmental Health
by Kas The USEPA's Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) will receive nutrient-rich fertilizer that will keep it from becoming obsolete. IRIS provides an overall characterization of the public health risks for a given chemical in a given situation. It is...
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