Archive for the ‘Public Health’ Category
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
The California Legislative Analyst on Wednesday projected that the state's expected budget deficit has increased from $14.5 billion to $16 billion and released an alternative spending plan for lawmakers to consider, the Los Angeles Times reports. Legislative Analyst Elizabeth Hill said Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's (R) plan for a 10% across-the-board ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
The New York Times on Thursday examined how Britain's National Health Service, which provides all residents with no-cost medical services, has "been wrestling with a problem its founders never anticipated: how to handle patients with complex illnesses who want to pay for parts of their treatment while receiving the rest ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
An inaugural report on public health preparedness released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) indicates states have made significant progress with respect to emergency preparedness, but that significant challenges remain.
"This assessment of public health emergency preparedness is a major step forward," said Dr. Julie Gerberding, CDC director. ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Proposals to address the "health crisis that we all share -- getting good, timely medical service and being able to afford it" -- require physicians and politicians to answer three "critical" questions: "Will you get past your partisanship to talk to one another, will you feel my pain and are ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) on Tuesday won the Wisconsin primary and the Hawaii caucuses, and Republican candidate Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) won the Wisconsin and Washington state primaries, CNN.com reports (CNN.com, 2/20).
In Wisconsin, an exit poll found that 26% of Democratic primary voters cited health care as ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
In the rural developing world, patients who have poisoned themselves with toxic pesticides or plants should not be treated with multiple-dose activated charcoal, because it has no effect on the rate of mortality. These results were announced in an Article on February 16, 2008 in The Lancet.
In fact, a major ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
UNISON, the UK's largest pubic sector union, is warning Coventry City Council to "face the fact that equal pay is not a take it or leave it piece of legislation, but the law of the land". The union is calling on the council to stop wasting residents' money fighting equal ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is warning those with a responsibility to maintain and service gas appliances in schools and other public buildings to ensure that they have a robust gas safety management system in place.
This warning comes after Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council was fined a total of £10,000 ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Examples of bad and even dangerous working practices have been found by HSE inspectors during random spot checks on refurbishments sites in Newcastle.
A total of 30 contractors had an unannounced visit from the Health and Safety Executive last week and as a result five prohibition notices were issued, stopping work ...
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