A stagehand’s death is a grim reminder of hazards in the theater; it takes OSHA an average of nearly eight years to issue a new standard; and a federal decision clears the way for 50 cancers to be added to the list of WTC-related diseases eligible for compensation and treatment.
The National Academies Press celebrates its first year of offering free PDF books for downloading. Several important public health publications are among the free offerings.
At a Congressional hearing on emergency preparedness, APHA’s Georges Benjamin warns about the impact of budget cuts on the public health system.
Behaviors are major contributors to our health status, but a tiny fraction of US health spending goes to encouraging healthy behaviors like physical activity. The Bipartisan Policy Center has some recommendations for increasing physical activity, including policy changes that make it easier for people to play and get around actively.
Workers keep dying from combustible dust explosions, even though there’s plenty of knowledge about how to prevent them; three farm workers were found dead in a manure pit; and the list of environmental activists killed in India keeps getting longer.
A Modesto Bee series by Jocelyn Wiener documents the toll of inadequate mental health funding in Stanislaus County, California.
As we remember and honor those who’ve lost their lives while serving this country, we should also think of those who grieve for them.
A US poll of those with serious medical conditions finds concerns about the costs and quality of healthcare received in the past year — and research using non-poll data bears out fears about preventable medical errors, one of the major problems with healthcare quality.
The New York Times’ Ian Urbina reports that the law limiting trucker hours has an exemption for oil and gas workers — and, not surprisingly, traffic crash fatality rates for this group are high.
Representative Jeff Flake’s mocks political science studies to advance a spending-bill amendment barring NSF funding of political science research.