Posts tagged illness

• Court: Workers With Mesothelioma and Lung Cancer Can File Separate Claims for Both Diseases

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | March 30, 2012 12:13 PM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Toxic Substances
  

  In a significant ruling for people who become sick with incurable lung problems after being exposed to asbestos at work, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in February 2012 upheld a plaintiff's...

• Diesel Exhaust Raises Lung Cancer Risk, Suppressed Study Shows

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | March 07, 2012 8:46 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA Category: Toxic Substances
  

  Even though federal health officials have long recognized exposure to diesel fumes as a cancer risk, solid evidence for the link between breathing in chemicals contained in the vapor coming...

• Solvents Used in Railroad Industry Linked To Parkinson's Disease

  Richard N. (Rick) Shapiro | November 26, 2011 9:58 AM | 0 CommentsNorfolk, Portsmouth & Hampton, VA Category: Toxic Substances
  

  TCE, PERC and CCL4 just sound bad for a person. Given their full chemical names of trichloroethylene, perchloroethylene and carbon tetrachloride, the widely used solvents prove no healthier than...

• Loudoun Lyme Disease Fair to Educate Leesburg, Broadlands & Ashburn Residents

  Doug Landau | May 12, 2011 6:03 AM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  With so many Broadlands, Ashburn and other Loudoun County neighbors and friends suffering from Lyme disease, an Informational Fair to educate public deserves to be publicized. The first annual...

• If OSHA Investigates my on the job Accident, That Means I will Win, Right ?

  Doug Landau | April 11, 2011 10:58 PM | 1 CommentFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  Wrong. Just because OSHA investigators come on the scene of your Virginia, Maryland or Washington, DC on the job accident does NOT mean that you will win your workers comp claim or personal injury...

• OSHA and Counting American Workers' Injuries and Fatal Accidents

  Doug Landau | April 10, 2011 10:49 PM | 0 CommentsFairfax, Leesburg & Loudoun, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  While the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is supposed to be the main federal agency charged with the enforcement of safety and health legislation, its coverage is actually much...

• Obama Signs The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA)

  Greg Webb | January 07, 2011 1:07 PM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  The Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) just signed into Law by the President gives broad authority to the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to implement policies of the...

• FDA Looking to Gain New Power From Food Safety Reform Bills

  Greg Webb | February 10, 2010 4:37 PM | 1 CommentCharlottesville, VA Category: Defective & Dangerous Products
  

  Hoping to initiate some momentum, 28 of the approximately 700 surviving victims from last year’s contaminated peanut products have sent a letter to the Senate stressing the need to go over its...

• State Government Jobs the Most Dangerous for Virginia Workers

  Randy Appleton | December 09, 2009 10:05 AM | 0 CommentsVirginia Beach, Chesapeake & Suffolk, VA Category: Workplace Injuries
  

  More than 97,000 workers in Virginia suffered a reportable job-related illness or injury in 2008, according to the latest annual report of the Virginia Department of Labor and Industry. Diseases...

• New FDA Initiative Seeks To Decrease Drug Dosage Errors

  Greg Webb | November 22, 2009 8:52 AM | 0 CommentsCharlottesville, VA Category: FDA & Prescription Drugs
  

  In an attempt to curb the number of serious deaths and illnesses caused by misuse of medication, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is attempting to identify the most serious threats and find...