The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has announced that it will consider the special issuance of a medical certificate to pilots who are taking medication for mild to moderate depression, conditions that now bar them from all flying duties.
NIOSH Director Dr. John Howard blogged on the NIOSH website about the health prevention aspects of the recently enacted healthcare reform legislation. Here’s what he had to say:
EPA is proposing to add 16 chemicals to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) list of reportable chemicals, the first expansion of the program in more than a decade.
Rescue workers continued the extremely risky job early today of removing explosive methane gas from the Upper Big Branch Mine coal mine in West Virginia where at least 25 miners died two days ago; four miners are still missing as of this posting.
U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the death of 25 miners yesterday at the Upper Big Branch South Mine in Whitesville, W.Va.:
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis used the historic setting of Chicago’s famed Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, on the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois, to unveil the U.S. Department of Labor’s “We Can Help” campaign, according to a recent press release. Solis committed to helping the nation’s low-wage and vulnerable workers, and reminded them that her agency’s personnel will not waver in protecting the rights guaranteed by law to every worker in America.
Eighty-five percent of Americans characterize their lifestyle as somewhat or very healthy, according to a survey released by the American Public Health Association (APHA).
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) unveiled results from its compact fluorescent lamp (CFL) safety study that found consumers may be able to use CFLs more broadly and safely than previously believed or understood, according to a recent press release. UL’s CFL Safety Study found no fire or shock hazards in CFLs when used in light fixtures, lighting controllers, and switches traditionally used with incandescent light bulbs.
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