Tuesday, July 5, 2016

OSHA gears up for anti-retaliation guideline rollouts and other top stories.

  • OSHA gears up for anti-retaliation guideline rollouts

    OSHA gears up for anti-retaliation guideline rollouts
    July 03, 2016 8:00 a.m. Updated OSHA gears up for anti-retaliation guideline rollouts By Gloria GonzalezCrain News Service The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration will have a busy regulatory agenda during the second half of 2016, including the planned publication of anti-retaliation and health and safety program management guidelines, according to the head of OSHA.The final anti-retaliation guidelines, a draft of which was published in December 2015, will "hopefu..
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  • Automated 'artificial pancreas' systems to make type-1-diabetes patients' life better

    Automated 'artificial pancreas' systems to make type-1-diabetes patients' life better
    An iPhone-sized-device that will help type-1-diabetes patients monitor their blood sugar levels will be most probably available in 2018. This artificial pancreas also automatically injects the right amount of insulin. The device will be attached with patient’s clothing and monitor glucose levels and administer insulin through patches on the skin. Study researchers Roman Hokorva and Hood Thabit of the University of Cambridge, UK, said that they have compared the study findings and assessed as to..
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  • 'Drunkorexia' latest form of alcohol abuse on college campuses

    'Drunkorexia' latest form of alcohol abuse on college campuses
    ‘Drunkorexia” — in which excessive drinking is preceded by fasting or vigorous exercise — appears to be sweeping U.S. college campuses, according to a study by University of Houston researchers.Known as "drunkorexia," the practice refers to a combination of diet-related behaviors, such as food restriction, excessive exercise, or binge eating and purging, with alcohol use, lead investigator Dr. Dipali V. Rinker told Medscape Medical News.The aim of drunkorexia is often to get drunker or get drun..
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  • 'Invisible' Zika Virus Epidemic Frustrates Health Officials

    'Invisible' Zika Virus Epidemic Frustrates Health Officials
    Tom Frieden is frustrated. For half a year now, he and colleagues have been trying to get Americans worried about Zika virus. From the moment Frieden's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention realized that Zika was probably causing horrendous birth defects in Brazil, the agency has been advising pregnant women to stay away from Zika-affected zones and warning that the virus would inevitably end up in the U.S. Christy Roberts, with the Harris County Public Health & Environmen..
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  • Military Freezing Mosquitoes to Guard Against Zika Virus

    Military Freezing Mosquitoes to Guard Against Zika Virus
    Mosquitoes are being trapped and frozen at Fort Benning and other posts as part of the military's effort to combat the Zika virus that has infected at least 11 service members among more than 1,000 Americans. Army Pvt. 1st Class Mary Pendris at Benning in Georgia near the Alabama line is among those troops on mosquito trapping duty to detect the presence of the Aedes aegypti mosquitoes whose bites can spread the virus which can cause birth defects, including microcephaly, according to the Cente..
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  • Red Cross: Need is 'urgent' for blood donations this summer

    Red Cross: Need is 'urgent' for blood donations this summer
    Donors typically donate less during the summertime, putting a strain on the American Red Cross' blood supply, according to Krystal Overmyer, an external communications manager with Biomedical Field Marketing and Communications for the Red Cross.
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  • For dogs terrified of fireworks, new drug aims to take the edge off the Fourth of July

    For dogs terrified of fireworks, new drug aims to take the edge off the Fourth of July
    Andrew Whitaker/The Hutchinson News via AP July 5 is widely reported to be the busiest day for animal shelters in the United States, which follows the year's most frightful day for canines: July 4. The pet industry has taken note, and now hawks ...
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