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Environmental Public Health
2008-05-29 09:41:00 ???????? (Helping One Another) I hate to say this, I hate to take this type of photographs ( I took this ‘better’ ones than the rest), it is no standard, and ugly, dirty, but I kept it until now and add some more(just taken two hours ago) This is what you see in the lift, my lift ...
By: Health Motivator
Al Qaeda Supporters? Tape to Call for Use of WMDs
2008-05-28 10:39:00 From abcnews.go.com, by Pierre Thomas and Theresa Cook Intelligence and law enforcement sources tell ABC News they are expecting al Qaeda supporters will post a new video on the Internet in the next 24 hours, calling for what one source said is “jihadists to use biological, chemical and nuclear weapons to attack the West.” Officials say they ...
Carter Urges Europe To Break With US Over Gaza Blockade
2008-05-27 17:21:00 From Guardian.co.uk, by Jonathan Steele and Jonathan Freedland Former US President Jimmy Carter speaking at the 2008 Hay Festival. Photograph: Barry Batchelor/PA Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian yesterday. Carter, visiting the Welsh border town of Hay for the ...
Public health enters virtual world - London Free Press
2008-05-21 11:39:00 Public health enters virtual worldLondon Free Press, Canada - 19 minutes ago... Whyflu coming -- though in retrospect, the flu clinic that mysteriously popped up in their virtual world a few weeks earlier should have been a clue. ...
Public health enters virtual world - London Free Press
2008-05-21 11:39:00 Public health enters virtual worldLondon Free Press, Canada - 7 hours ago... Whyflu coming -- though in retrospect, the flu clinic that mysteriously popped up in their virtual world a few weeks earlier should have been a clue. ...
Congress Reports on Major Event Security
2008-05-14 23:58:00 From Congressional Release May 13, 2008 (WASHINGTON) ? Today, the Majority Staff of the Committee on Homeland Security, Chaired by Rep. Bennie G. Thompson (D-MS), released a comprehensive report examining homeland security challenges for mass gatherings. The report, entitled ?Public Health, Safety, and Security for Mass Gatherings? details 30 recommendations for what should be done by ...
Autism Speaks Walks and Fund Raising Do Not Prevent Autism -A Public Health
2008-05-13 22:40:00 Toys'R'Us Raises More than $1.5 Million to Benefit Autism Speaks Company's National Sponsorship of Autism Speaks Walk Now for Autism Program Continues as Store Associates Form Walk Teams from Coast-to-Coast
Cannabis: The Public Health Issues 1995-1996
2008-05-06 11:19:00 "It is therefore recommended that an intersectoral policy to improve health by reducing cannabis related harm should be developed as part of a comprehensive national policy on tobacco, alcohol and other drugs." (notably a health primitive completely at odds with the terms of reference of the Law Commission, though remarkably like Class D)Monitoring and evaluationPolicy should be continually monitored and evaluated to ensure that it is meeting its objectives and is in line with the latest evidence. Because of their integral nature, monitoring and evaluation should be built into the policy development process itself. (Yeah Right!)Outcome targets• To reduce the prevalence of current marijuana use (used in the last 12months and not stopped using) from 12 percent of persons aged 15 to 45years in 1990, to 8 percent or less by the year 2005 [baseline, Black andCasswell 1993].• To reduce the prevalence of frequent marijuana use (used 10 or more timesin the last 30 days) from 2.4 perc...
Past Post: U.S. Public Health Service Hospital
2008-05-01 10:23:00 With Amazon.com announcing their plans to move to South Lake Union, the future of the iconic headquarters atop Beacon Hill is uncertain. A number of potential future tenants have already been in talks with the company’s landlord. Will it be more biotech? Condos? Hard to say right now. The Art Deco Marine Hospital operated until ...
A Courageous Marina Litvinenko Takes Up Husband?s Cause
2008-04-25 09:09:00 From HSLEADER.com, by John Taylor Washington - Marina Litvinenko, the widow of Alexander ?Sasha? Litvinenko, gave a long overdue talk to the attendees of GovSec on Thursday on behalf of her late husband. Mr. Litvinenko was scheduled to address GovSec in 2007, when he was assassinated in November 2006 with tea poisoned with polonium-210. Mrs. Litvinenko gave ...
More public health issues
2008-04-24 06:08:00 Parents, if you suspect your child has chicken pox do not bring them to the ER or, for that matter, your pediatricians office. If you do, you will expose a lot of people who shouldn't be exposed - people with weakened immune systems for which chicken pox can be fatal, Pregnant women, the elderly and other children.treat fever if your child is uncomfortable, give them plenty of fluids, oatmeal baths or calamine lotion for itching. It is an emergency if your child can't keep down fluids, if they are lethargic, complain of a bad headache or stiff neck, seizures, have difficulty breathing or the rash involves an eye. Also seek medical attention if the pox appear infected.If you do feel you need to seek medical attention, please call ahead to the ER or pediatricians office and let them know you are coming so we can properly isolate your child, chicken pox is EXTREMELY contagious.
By: ERnursey
Public Health Issue
2008-04-23 05:09:00 Dear Nurse Practitioner, The next time you think you have a child with measles please do not tell the mother to go to the ER where she and said child will sit with 200 other people in the lobby for several hours to be seen for the "rash" because mom isn't very fluent in English. When it is discovered that said child does have the measles public health becomes involved to try to track down all the people who may have come in contact with the child while sitting in the lobby, a rather daunting and time consuming task.So consequently public health is not happy, the ER staff is not happy and all the people who had to have a dose of immune globulin are definitely not happy.Great job.In the future, if you suspect a communicable disease please contact public health where you will find a nurse on call, 24/7 to guide you in how to handle things without causing a public health disaster.Your friendly ER staff, some of which now have sore asses
By: ERnursey
[Unlikely] Public health expert wants sin tax on butter, calling it ?pure,
2008-04-06 18:07:00 Stuff.co.nz
Georgia Senate OKs Concealed Guns in Eateries, MARTA Trains
2008-04-05 06:17:00 From The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, by Andrea Jones Georgians with concealed weapons permits could carry guns on MARTA trains, and into restaurants as long as they don’t drink, under a bill that passed the Senate after two rounds of contentious debate Wednesday. Senators tacked the provisions onto HB 257, a bill that would have allowed Magistrate Court constables ...
Assistant / Associate / Full Professor of Public Health
2008-03-25 20:01:00 Applications are invited for a full-time Assistant/Associate/Full Professor at the Institute for Public Health Sciences (IPHS) of Yeshiva University. The IPHS is a novel University program, co-led by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine and the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology. The IPHS emphasizes education and research with a focus on chronic disease and the social ...
Public Health Update for Drug Industry II
2008-03-14 02:15:00 IN THE [MAXIM INSTITUTE] NEWS Public health update The Health Committee has begun to hear oral submissions on the Public Health Bill, with the opportunity for written submissions closing last week. The Bill seeks to update the existing health law, and in its current form will allow regulations to be made to place controls on certain activities, including "activities relating to goods and services with the potential to pose risks to public health." The Bill would extend such provisions to non-communicable diseases such as diabetes and obesity, with some fearing that it would allow regulations to be created that might limit the sale or advertising of unhealthy foods or where they can be placed within supermarkets.The Health Committee is expected to report back to Parliament on the Bill by 10 June 2008.Hat tip to MAXIM for warning the homegrower, the tinny houses, the head shops and mobile p-labs.But where is Rothmans and Seagrams?Is Burger King going to support BMI size doors, and wil...
Public Health Warnings Are Needed To Encourage Fathering Babies in Ones 20s
2008-03-11 16:20:00 Below are the faces of some of the researchers, living and dead who warn or research about the role of paternal age. Leslie B. Raschka, MD, psychiatrist tried to warn and he could not get published in the major journals. See end of this post for the paper from the Chinese Medical Journal 2000.Michael Craig Miller, MD psychiatrist Harry Fisch,MD Male Fertility Finn Rasmussen Epidemiologist Avi Abraham Reichenberg, MD Psychiatrist Dolores Malaspina, MD psychiatrist James F. Crow geneticist J.B.S. Haldane geneticist Lionel Penrose Geneticist Wilhelm Weinberg Obstetrician, researcherIt was Wilhelm Weinberg in 1912 who noted that paternal age not maternal age was connected with abnormalities in offspring. THE AGE OF THE FATHER AND THEHEALTH OF FUTURE GENERATIONSWord Count: 903　Leslie B. Raschka M.D., Associate Professor (retired),Department of Psychiatry, University of TorontoAddress: 27 Edgecombe ave, Toronto, Ontario, CanadaM5N 2Xl, Tel. (416) 783-69382AbstractPurpose: To assess the ...
Anthrax tests on troops to be conducted ?strictly under supervision?
2008-02-26 01:20:00 From ynetnews.com By Aviram Zino Following deliberation on petition protesting IDF medical experimentation on soldiers, government announces Ministry of Health to supervise such experiments Full Story
Those Who Pay for Private Care Are Testing Britains Public Health System
2008-02-21 06:27:00 LONDON - Created 60 years ago as a cornerstone of the British welfare state, the National Health Service is devoted to the principle of free medical care for everyone.
By: Get rich
FBI Requesting Help with Identification of Victim
2008-02-05 00:26:00 From FBI Release The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today placed ?Beloved Doe? on its ?Wanted ? Seeking Information? list, along with a promise of a reward offered for information leading to the identification of ?Beloved Doe?, his parents, or caretaker. ?Beloved Doe? was the nickname given to an unidentified male child, whose remains were discovered ...
Weapons of Mass Destruction Training
2008-02-04 19:37:00 The Federal Law Enforcement Training Center presents Weapons of Mass Destruction Training Program (Level I) (WMDTP1-Operations) April 7-11, 2008 in Richland, WA Overview: The WMDTP Level 1 program is designed to offer OSHA Standard Operations level training for those personnel who would be the first responding officers to radiological, biological, or chemical weapons of mass destruction threats or ...
How About a Public Health Warning on Paternal Age Effect?
2008-02-04 02:55:00 Paternal age effectFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaJump to: navigation, searchThe paternal age effect describes the influence that a father's age has on the chances of conferring a genetic defect to his offspring. Generally, older men have a greater probability of fathering children with a genetic defect than younger men do.[citation needed] This is seen as likely due to genetic copying errors which may increase in number after repeated spermatogenesis cycles over a man's lifetime.Contents[hide]1 Disorders correlated with paternal age2 See also3 References4 External links//[edit] Disorders correlated with paternal ageAchondroplasia (dwarfism); craniofacial disorders such as Apert syndrome and Crouzon Syndrome; mental retardation of unknown etiologies; autism; and 25% of schizophrenia cases are correlated with advanced paternal age.Other disorders related to advanced paternal age are:Wilms' tumorThanatophoric dysplasiaRetinitis pigmentosaOsteogenesis imperfecta type IIAAcrody...
DHS Offers Details on Over $3 Billion in Grants
2008-02-01 19:31:00 From DHS Release (February 1, 2007) WASHINGTON ? The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) today announced the release of application guidance for 14 federal grant programs whose collective purpose is to strengthen prevention, protection, response and recovery capabilities at all levels of government. The Department uses the application guidance to set strategic priorities that support President ...
California Department of Public Health Launches Preteen Vaccine Week
2008-01-24 00:00:00 Dr. Mark Horton, director of the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), will launch California?s Preteen Vaccine Week at a youth soccer tournament in San Diego tomorrow. Read More
DHS Announces National Response Framework
2008-01-23 17:19:00 REMARKS BY HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY MICHAEL CHERTOFF AND FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY ADMINISTRATOR R. DAVID PAULISON AT A PRESS CONFERENCE ON THE NATIONAL RESPONSE FRAMEWORK (January 22, 2008) SECRETARY CHERTOFF: Thank you, Dennis. And David, thank you for coming to join me here for this announcement of the National Response Framework. I?d also particularly like to ...
Public Health Workers Say Troops Out Now !
2008-01-23 04:11:00 Voila une photo de la banniere qu'on a utilise hier lors de la MLK march. Merci a Wendy pour les photos....Copyright Zizoufromdjerba.blogspot.com
You want me to beat what?
2008-01-21 10:58:00 Blue Monday. Apparently today is known as Blue Monday, and we’re encouraged to follow a ten point plan to help us combat the blues and make it past the most depressing day of the year, January 21, 2008. I’ve decided to share with you all ten points, and then let you know what I’m doing for ...
By: fracas
Public Health Information: An increased effort to limit the spread of infec
2008-01-17 16:05:00 At the request of Mr. Ron Gleason, the local hospital administrator, the community is hereby notified that a significant agent has been added at the local hospital to attempt to control the spread of a number of communicable diseases, which are especially common at this time. Colds, coughs, sore holes and pimples on the belly ...
African conference: Translating New Technologies to Improve Public Health i
2008-01-09 17:24:00 Source: The Drum Beat Translating New Technologies to Improve Public Health in Africa - May 15-20 2008 - Kampala, Uganda Part of the Keystone Symposia Global Health Series, this conference will address how to employ new technologies that have evolved out of the various genome/proteome projects and apply them to neglected diseases within a clinical or ...
Tuberculosis. A tale of irony.
2008-01-03 06:20:00 Comment on this post… Tuberculosis. Disease of the past. Or not. In 2005, the United States recorded 14,500 cases of TB. [1] “TB is spread through the air from one person to another. The bacteria are put into the air when a person with active TB disease of the lungs or throat coughs or sneezes. People nearby may breathe ...
By: fracas
Adult Club In Japan Serves ?Pee On The Rocks?
2007-12-26 23:17:00 A popular adult club in Osaka, Japan called Impulse was recently targeted by Police for a number of “eyebrow raising” practices. Recently six of the club’s hostesses and one male customer of Impulse, a “sexual cabaret club,” were arrested on charges of indecent exposure after the hostesses allegedly worked while in the nude while the customer ...
By: The Hot Joints
Confirmation of Key DHS Leadership
2007-12-21 15:06:00 By Secretary Michael Chertoff I am pleased that the Senate moved to confirm four key leaders at the department last night. Each of them has contributed significantly to the safety and security of our homeland and is integral to the continued maturation of the department. Robert D. Jamison, Under Secretary, National Protection & Programs Directorate, is an ...
Tactical Medicine Conference
2007-12-20 19:56:00 The Tactical Medicine Conference reports a strong lineup of experts, trainers and instructors for the upcoming conference, February 19-22, at the Long Beach Convention Center, in Long Beach, California. The Tactical Medicine Conference, co-located with TREXPO West, is where emergency medical providers meet and share the latest tips and insights on trauma and emergency surgery, disaster ...
National Congress on Secure Communities
2007-12-18 00:48:00 Homeland Security leaders from around the country convened today at the National Congress on Secure Communities held in Washington. With delegates from over 40 states in attendance, the group heard from Sec. Michael Chertoff, Asst. Secretary Alfonso Martinez-Fonts and other homeland security leadership. The National Congress? Chairman is the Hon. Asa Hutchinson and David Anderson of the National Council on Readiness ...
Finding Link to Anthrax, Professor Set NAU Apart
2007-12-16 18:37:00 From AZCentral.com, by Anne Ryman One of the world’s foremost anthrax researchers toils in a cramped, windowless lab at Northern Arizona University. Inside a locked room only a few can enter, he and his research team study germs so dangerous that the U.S. government considers them top bioterror threats. It was here that Professor Paul Keim made a ...
DHS 2007 Achievements
2007-12-13 04:04:00 SELECT Department of Homeland Security 2007 Achievements Protecting the Nation from Dangerous People More Fencing at the Border: U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) exceeded the goal of 145 miles of fencing at the border. CBP took conditional possession of the prototype Project 28 development of nine towers equipped with radar and communications systems and automated ground sensors ...
Earthbound Mission for NASA: Public Health
2007-12-12 17:01:00 From USATODAY.com Tech - Top Stories: From an orbit hundreds of miles above Earth, NASA's constellation of climate-research satellites may not be able to spot a flea in the desert Southwest. But a program that uses space observations to pinpoint the habitats of rodents carry
Serious Public Health Concerns Raised Over Exposure to Electromagnetic Fiel
2007-12-10 16:28:00 You cannot see it, taste it or smell it, but it is one of the most pervasive environmental exposures in industrialized countries today. Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) or electromagnetic fields (EMFs) are the terms that broadly describe exposures created by the vast array of wired and wireless technologies that have altered the landscape of our lives in countless beneficial ways.However, these technologies were designed to maximize energy efficiency and convenience; not with biological effects on people in mind. Based on new studies, there is growing evidence among scientists and the public about possible health risks associated with these technologies.Human beings are bioelectrical systems. Our hearts and brains are regulated by internal bioelectrical signals. Environmental exposures to artificial EMFs can interact with fundamental biological processes in the human body. In some cases, this can cause discomfort and disease.Since World War II, the background level of EMF from electr...
By: The Cosmic Heart
Department of Motor Vehicles vs Department of Public Health
2007-12-03 22:36:00 I visited the DPH today for my preventative tuberculosis medication. I decided to take this medication because I tested positive for the PPD skin test with a negative chest x-ray. Being a student in healthcare, especially respiratory therapy, I?ll be exposed to TB more often. I don?t want it to become active. It was my first time visiting and I found it comparable to the DMV (last month for a license renewal). Both had long wait times with announcers that said, ?Now serving X at window Y? and provided a sense of impeding doom in the waiting area. Here is a quick comparison: Total wait time:I made an appointment for the DPH while I waited in line for the license renewal. Wait time for the DPH was 30 min while the DMV?s total time was nearly an hour. Then I found out that I went to the wrong building for the preventative medication so wait time should have been zero. An idiot is me.Winner: DPHGeneral check-in front desk:DMV: ?How can I help you?? "Great." "Fill this form ...
EMS Personnel as Intelligence Sensors
2007-11-29 18:46:00 From Homeland Security Affairs, by Michael Petrie The use of Emergency Medical Services (EMS) personnel 1 as intelligence sensors or information collectors to provide information to Terrorism Early Warning Groups (TEWGs) and other local and state government intelligence fusion centers is recommended by numerous academic papers, professional articles and presentations, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security best-practice ...
The Katrina of Public Health
2007-11-27 10:31:00 by Jayne Lyn Stahl Some alarming, awe-inspiring, news today out of Washington, D.C., and no, it's not Trent Lott's resignation. The results of a study, the first of its kind, of HIV cases in the nation's capital are out, and they show that AIDS has reached "epidemic" proportions in D.C. (WaPo) In the five year test period in question, ending in 2006, while African-Americans comprise roughly 60% of the city's population, they account for more than 80% of the more than 3,000 HIV cases that have been identified. 90% of women residents who tested positive for the disease are African-American. And, nearly 40% of reported cases were among heterosexuals showing, in the words of a District administrator, that "HIV is everybody's disease" in D.C. The presence of an epidemic of this magnitude so close to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue can't help but make one wonder if federal policy, or non-policy is at the nucleus of this health catastrophe. Yet, where is the...
Top 20 Worst Foods
2007-11-27 08:06:00 So you’re like the fracas, and you’re just over 40 and about five and a half feet tall. You want to know exactly how much fat you can consume in a day in order to maintain a healthy weight and body. You search the internet, and you find this University of Maryland Medical System Fat Intake Calculator. You type in the ...
By: fracas
U.N. To Cut Estimate Of AIDS Epidemic
2007-11-20 20:42:00 The United Nations’ top AIDS scientists plan to acknowledge this week that they have long overestimated both the size and the course of the epidemic, which they now believe has been slowing for nearly a decade. Revised figures in the latest UN Aids annual report released on Monday cut an estimate for total infections to 32.7 ...
By: The Hot Joints
Remarks By Sec. Chertoff at 2007 Customs and Border Protection Trade Sympos
2007-11-17 05:35:00 SECRETARY CHERTOFF: It’s a lunch speech, but I don’t see lunch. I guess you all ate before I got here. I want to thank Commissioner Basham for the introduction. But beyond that, I want to thank him for his service not only in this challenging and very important job with a huge domain of responsibility, but ...
Squalor, Crime Follow Wave of Foreclosures
2007-11-15 17:02:00 Eighty-five bungalows dot the cul-de-sac that joins West Ontario Avenue and East Ontario Avenue in Atlanta. Twenty-two are vacant, victims of mortgage fraud and foreclosure. Now house fires, prostitution, vandals and burglaries terrorize the residents left in this historic neighborhood called Westview Village. “It’s created a safety hazard. And if we have to sell our house ...
Mortgage Help For Homeland Security Community
2007-11-13 07:03:00 Cornerstone First Financial LLC, a mortgage company owned by first responder Mark Livingstone, is offering free mortgage counseling and discounted purchase and refinance rates for homeland security professionals, including a guarantee of at least 1/8th off their best rates for those with qualifying credit. Cornerstone?s offer is valid for all government and private sector homeland security professionals in Delaware, ...
Book Details Role of Geospatial in Homeland Security
2007-11-09 07:45:00 From GISuser.com, by ERSI Redlands, California?GIS for Homeland Security, a new book from ESRI Press, chronicles the value of geographic information system (GIS) technology in a growing arsenal of technologies used to protect the nation from natural disasters, diseases, and terrorist threats. The book by Mike Kataoka, an ESRI Press editor and former journalist, describes in nontechnical ...
Poison Killings Linked to Russian Police Turf War
2007-11-07 06:21:00 From TimesOnline.co.uk, By Mark Franchetti At first police thought the two bodies found in a ditch in St Petersburg last weekend were those of drunks who had passed out and died of hypothermia. The case turned out to be far more disturbing. Both men were from Russia?s Federal Drug Control Service, a powerful force of former KGB ...
DHS Publishes List of Chemicals of Interest
2007-11-02 14:13:00 WASHINGTON ? The Department of Homeland Security today released Appendix A of the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS), a critical element of its chemical security efforts. The appendix contains a list of chemicals that, if possessed by a facility in a specified quantity, trigger a requirement to complete and submit an easy-to-use, online consequence assessment tool ...
Public Health Risks from Climate Change are Key Concern Commentsby Profess
2007-10-29 22:23:00 Message not to be Lost in Debate: Public Health Risks from Climate Change are Key Concern - Oct 26, 2007 Comment by Professor Jonathan A. Patz, University of Wisconsin, Madison With all the attention over the Bush Administration's mishandling of senate testimony by CDC Director, Julie Gerberding, I fear that the central clear message is being overshadowed by the (albeit errant) procedural |
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