health and safety

Nursing Home Safety & Health Violations Reported

Robert L. Abell
October 01, 2008 01:31

94% of nursing homes were cited last year for violations of federal health and safety standards. Unsurprisingly, for profit homes were cited for violations more frequently than not for profit or government-operated homes. Nearly 20% of the violations involved "actual...94% of nursing homes were...

US Extradition Requests "a little harsh"

Iain Nisbet
September 09, 2008 23:28

Just came across this post on the extradition of the Howes family by/to the USA. According to the website, the family ran a small business selling chemicals over the Internet from the home in Bo'ness. However two of the substances they sold were iodine and red phosphorus. The former has...

Guess Who's Running America's Hospitals

August 20, 2008 02:08

Here's a pop quiz: Guess who's running America's hospitals?If you said, doctors, you're wrong.If you said, public health experts, you're wrong again.But if you said, MBAs, you're right!Business school graduates have replaced doctors and public health experts as CEOs of hospitals, at patients'...

Red Bull "gives you wings"?

Iain Nisbet
August 19, 2008 21:49

I learn, from no lesser source than the online Belfast Telegraph that the European Court of Justice has decided in principle that the French government has a right to ban the energy drink Red Bull. The article states that a study by the French Scientific Committee on Human Nutrition concluded...

Weakening of Workplace Toxin Rules Underway

Robert L. Abell
July 23, 2008 16:11

A weakening of rules regulating workers exposure to toxic substances in their workplace is underway in these final months of the Bush Administration, the Washington Post reports ("U.S. Rushes to Change Workplace Toxin Rules"). Contrary to requirements that notice of...    A weakening of...