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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 31, 2010
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
Speaking on a "matter of public concern," is protected speech, according to a federal jury in Becky McClain v. Pfizer, Inc. In this case, the jury found that being exposed at work to a genetically engineered virus or other biotech...
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 6:18 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Public Health - General
So far, 5,462 US service members have died from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 12:57 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Environmental Health
Acid mine drainage is a serious environmental problem in South Africa, but government and industry have been slow to address cleanup needs.
Posted by The Pump Handle at 12:03 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 30, 2010
Category: BP
by Elizabeth Grossman As of Saturday afternoon, May 29th, ten oil spill clean-up workers had been admitted to West Jefferson Medical Center (WJMC) in Marrero, Louisiana. All but two have been hospitalized suffering from chest pains, dizziness, headaches, and nausea....
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 10:49 AM • 12 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 28, 2010
Category: BP
An OSHA spokesperson says data shows no toxic air concentrations where cleanup work is occurring - but three workers have been rushed to the hospital. There are several questions OSHA still hasn't answered about cleanup workers' health.
Posted by The Pump Handle at 4:43 PM • 13 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Public Health - General
Before next month's G8 meeting, scientific bodies from the eight countries issue a joint statement about how the G8 can improve the health of women and children worldwide.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 2:47 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 27, 2010
Category: Healthcare
Preventable hospital readmissions affect one in five patients and cost billions each year. Hospitalists and payment reforms are possible solutions.
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 5:30 PM • 20 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 26, 2010
Category: OSHA
In a blog post seven months ago, I gave federal OSHA credit for placing worker fatality information front-and-center on its homepage. The sobering feature deserving kudos was the scrolling list of fatal-injury incidents in which men and women died recently...
Posted by Celeste Monforton at 7:30 PM • 8 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Category: Occupational Health & Safety
On today's Morning Edition, Russell Lewis reported on the memorial service held in Jackson, Mississippi for the 11 workers who died when the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded on April 20th. Host David Greene noted that they've been called the...
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 5:08 PM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
May 25, 2010
A study published in the open-access journal BMC Immunology suggests an intriguing hypothesis: The explosion of spread of HIV in Africa and then worldwide in the 1950s might be partially explained by the eradication of smallpox and the discontinuation of...
Posted by Liz Borkowski at 5:42 PM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
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