The article focuses on a report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on August 8, 2014 which found that employers do not follow the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)'s recommendation on heat illness prevention programs.EBSCO_AspSafety & Health...
Extreme heat leads to more ER visits The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says there has been an extremely high rate of heat-related emergency room visits as scorching temperatures grip the U.S. this summer. Emergency medicine physician Dr. Owais Durrani joined CBS News to discuss how...
although many of those deaths are preventable. When people are exposed to high temperatures for too long without resources to cool themselves, illnesses likeheat exhaustionandheatstrokecan set in. To help people get a handle on this public health issue, the US Centers for Disea...
Levels of influenza nationwide are now at the highest they have been since the peak of the 2009 swine flu pandemic, according tofigurespublished Friday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, amid this winter'ssecond waveof the virus. Close to 8% of visits for respirator...
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Most people get better after a few days but can still spread the illness a few days after feeling better. How Is It Impacting Minnesota + Wisconsin? The virus is spreading all over the country, including inMinnesota and Wisconsin,with areas in the Northeast being hit the hardest at the time...
(Didn’t I just quote the CDC as saying fans wouldn’t help in preventing heat-related illness? Go figure.)So OSHA falls short of actually putting a stake in the ground as to what temperature is acceptable for safe working conditions—and as a result, I can’t help but put a little ...
Hand-transmission is a critical factor in the spread of bacteria, pathogens, viruses that cause disease, foodborne illness, and nosocomial infections. Everyone is vulnerable and over one-third of the population is at high risk, including the elderly, young children, pregnant women, and those with...
In other situations (eg, serious illness in a patient with poor prognosis for return to previous level of function, contraindications to other therapies, and clinician and patient agreement that the overriding goal is patient comfort), opioids might be appropriate regardless of previous therapies used...
The elderly, infants, and people with impaired immune systems are at heightened risk for developing a more serious illness because of salmonella, the CDC said. Some people can develop life-threatening complications if the infection spreads beyond the intestines. ...