News in category: In The Workplace

NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bill and Melinda Gates are joining forces and $500 million to launch a global anti-smoking campaign in low and middle income emerging countries which have never seen anti-smoking campaigns. Among their challenger are governments that derive income from a tobacco sales tax.

Muscle pain affects roughly one out of every 1,000 people taking statins to lower cholesterol.Now British researchers believe they know why - a genetic variation seems to be the basis for muscle pain and myopathy. About two percent of the population carry the two variant genes, which cause roughly 60% of the muscle pain problem.

Officials are re-examining locals laws following a fatal crane accident on Friday at LyondellBassell plant that killed four workers when a crane collapsed. The accident has prompted officials to call for more city regulation of cranes.

On June 24, the President of the Building and Construction Trades Department (BCTD) stated before the House Education and Labor Committee that there is a need for the creation of an OSHA agency specifically dedicated to construction.

A crane collapsed at LynondellBasell refinery in Houston, on Friday, killing four workers and injuring seven others. Texas is one of 35 states that does not require crane operators to be licensed. Crane regulations are long overdue, especially in those cities that are experiencing new and constant construction.

Consumers overwhelmingly believe the FDA, food producers, and distributors should have some form of tracking the journey a tomato takes from the field to your plate. The latest salmonella outbreak has shown that isn't happening.  The rise in food borne illness may be linked to industrialized farming done by agribusiness. 

While its been a dozen years since TWA Flight 800 had an "in-flight breakup" off the coast of Long Island, the FAA is now ordering modifications to aircraft design. Many, including award-winning reporter, Kristina Borjesson, feel the FAA has it all wrong.

The Corn Refiners Association is in the middle of an 18- month, $30 million PR campaign to convince Americans that high-fructose corn syrup is really not the culprit behind obesity, despite the fact that it's in almost everything and its introduction coincides with America's rising obesity rates.

It's been only 23 years of tracking obesity rates in the U.S. by the CDC. In 1985, fewer than one in ten of us was obese- today one out of 3 or 4 is not just overweight but obese. Supersized portions are partially to blame for this energy imbalance resulting in supersized people.

New and expanded laws regarding firearms mean that they may be closer than you think - like Sea World, Orlando and at the Atlanta Hartsfield Airport.  Disney World is refusing to allow guns in the cars of employees, despite a new guns-to-work law in Florida.

Those who have assisted in the recovery, cleanup and rescue efforts of the World Trade Center destruction on 9/11, have an extended deadline of August 13, 2008 to register with the New York State Workers’ Compensation Board for future benefits.

Senator Charles Grassley is asking the American Psychiatric Association to account for its funding, one-third of which comes from major pharmaceutical companies. In the latest outing, he's uncovered a Stanford psychiatrist who allegedly failed to report $74,000 in compensation from drug makers to the university.

A new low in human behavior is observed in this surveillance videotaped death of a woman in a Brooklyn, N.Y. psychiatric hospital. No one comes to help. While the hospital is instituting changes, how many among us are capable of showing indifference?

New York City leads the nation in eliminating trans fats from restaurant foods. The saturated, artificial fat, does nothing for consumers but contribute to heart clogging cholesterol and possible memory decline. For manufacturers, trans fats mean products can stay on the shelves longer.

Soldiers suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder are not getting the mental health benefits they are entitled to, accuse veterans groups in a lawsuit. But today that action was dismissed by a federal judge who said district court is not the venue for action. Meanwhile 18 soldiers a day reportedly commit suicide.