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Inspector General Report: Asbestos Exposure a Concern on Army Posts
Residents in privatized housing on nearly 50 Army installations cited concerns with issues such as lead paint and asbestos, the toxic building material linked to mesothelioma cancer, according to a recent report from the Department of the Army Inspector General.
The report, which was made public earlier this month, includes surveys, document reviews and interviews with residents at 49 Army installations across the U.S., including Fort Bragg (N.C.), Fort Campbell (Ky.) and Fort Hood in Texas.
Military families at 48 of the 49 sites cited concerns with safety or environmental issues inside the aging on-base housing at the ...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - September 25, 2019 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Matt Mauney Source Type: news
Two therapies cure rare genetic disease in mice
Most babies who are born with arginase deficiency — a rare genetic disease that leads to the accumulation of the amino acid arginine in the blood — don’t have symptoms at first. By the time they’re toddlers, however, their muscles stiffen. Seizures, tremors and developmental delays appear next, and over time the disease can lead to severe i ntellectual disabilities.UCLA scientists have developed two new approaches to deliver functioning copies of the arginase gene to mice with arginase deficiency. One approach, which must be administered every three days in mice, uses tiny nanoparticles to carry arginase RNA to the...
Source: UCLA Newsroom: Health Sciences - September 9, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: news
Five Injured in Gas Explosion at Pennsylvania Home
WASHINGTON, Pa. (AP) — An explosion believed to have been caused by a gas leak reduced a western Pennsylvania home to a pile of rubble and injured five people, authorities said.
The blast just before 4 p.m. Wednesday near a high school in North Franklin Township was widely felt around the area, the (Washington) Observer-Reporter reported.
Washington County Director of Public Safety Jeff Yates told the paper that three township firefighters, the homeowner and a neighbor were injured. Officials said none of the injuries appeared life-threatening.
Firefighters had been in the area investigating a gas smell in the neighborho...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - August 1, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: News AP News Tag Operations Source Type: news
Energy – “ Our jobs, our professions, our futures ”
Top of the agenda at UNISON’s energy service group conference in Liverpool today (Monday) was the importance of workers in delivering the Paris Agreement goal.
“We fully support the commitment to achieve net zero in greenhouse emissions by 2050,” said Lindsay McNaught from British Gas branch. “But we need to ensure workers are not left stranded as they were when the mines closed in the 1980s.”
Last month, the government’s Committee on Climate Change set out how the UK hopes to achieve the goal of zero emissions within an expected economic cost.
Worryingly, but unsurprisingly, the report states that the ...
Source: UNISON Health care news - June 17, 2019 Category: UK Health Authors: Martin Cullen Tags: Article 2019 Energy Conference Source Type: news
How do foams collapse?
(Tokyo Metropolitan University) Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University have successfully found two distinct mechanisms by which foams can collapse, yielding insight into the prevention/acceleration of foam rupture in industrial materials e.g. foods, cosmetics, insulation, stored chemicals. When a bubble breaks, they found that a collapse event propagates via impact with the receding film and tiny scattered droplets breaking other bubbles. Identifying which mechanism is dominant in different foams may help tailor them to specific applications.
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - June 8, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Pilot Injured After Glider Crashes into Connecticut Home
DANBURY, Conn. (AP) — A battery-powered glider crashed into the roof of a Connecticut home, injuring the pilot and scaring a mother and her two children who were watching TV.
Neighbors described hearing a small explosion when the aircraft hit the home in Danbury Tuesday night and became partially embedded in the attic. Mayor Mark Boughton tells The News-Times that neighbors found the pilot walking around looking for his glasses.
The aircraft had taken off from Danbury's airport earlier in the day and the mayor says the pilot thought he had 20 minutes of power left and was headed for the airport. An airport official says ...
Source: JEMS Operations - June 5, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Rescue & Vehicle Extrication News Operations Source Type: news
Three Dead as Tornado Strikes Missouri Capital
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A "violent tornado" touched down in Jefferson City, causing heavy damage in Missouri's capital city as severe weather swept across the state overnight, causing three deaths and leaving many people trapped in the wreckage of their homes.
The service reported that a "confirmed large and destructive tornado" was observed over Jefferson City at 11:43 p.m. Wednesday, moving northeast at 40 mph (64 kph). The capital city has a population of about 40,000 and is located about 130 miles (209 kilometers) west of St. Louis.
"Across the state, Missouri's first responders once again...
Source: JEMS: Journal of Emergency Medical Services News - May 23, 2019 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Major Incidents News Source Type: news
EPA Ignored Advice from Staff Experts When Issuing New Asbestos Rule
More than a dozen senior officials and experts at the Environmental Protection Agency urged the EPA to ban asbestos outright, a new report shows.
Two internal memos obtained by the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization and shared with the New York Times reveal the EPA’s own scientists and lawyers advised the agency to issue a complete ban of asbestos instead of the recent regulations that only restricted its domestic use.
In the memos, dated Aug. 10, 2018, EPA staff members wrote that the agency “should seek to ban all new uses of asbestos because the extreme harm from this chemical substance outweighs any benefit....
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - May 8, 2019 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Matt Mauney Source Type: news
EPA ’s Latest Asbestos Regulation Falls Short of Full Ban
The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new regulation on Wednesday that will make it tougher to domestically manufacture, import or sell products made with asbestos, the toxic mineral that causes mesothelioma and other diseases.
The regulation closes a loophole in the partial ban of asbestos that was legislated almost 30 years ago.
It will strengthen the EPA’s ability to review and prohibit the use of a long list of asbestos products that are not banned but have been long abandoned by the industry.
The ruling is part of a legislative process that requires the EPA to review its regulation of asbestos under the Tox...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - April 18, 2019 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Matt Mauney Source Type: news
Studies of different types of insulating oils and their mixtures as an alternative to mineral oil for cooling power transformers - Rouabeh J, M'barki L, Hammami A, Jallouli I, Driss A.
Because of their availability and low cost, mineral oils have been widely used for a long time in power transformers to allow their insulation and cooling. However, their low fire safety and low biodegradability potential have made it necessary to look for...
Source: SafetyLit - April 3, 2019 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news
Supreme Court Rules to Protect Navy Veterans in Asbestos Case
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that manufacturers are liable for asbestos-containing materials they did not make, distribute or install, but were needed for their equipment to function properly.
The maritime-law ruling involved Navy veterans who were not warned about the danger of asbestos insulation added by a third party to pumps, turbines and blowers aboard three different ships.
The ruling will allow cases filed originally by Navy veterans Kenneth McAfee and John DeVries to move forward against five manufacturers.
Both veterans died from cancer during the course of litigation. The deaths have been attributed to a...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - March 20, 2019 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Matt Mauney Source Type: news
Abbott wins expanded indications for MitraClip
The FDA today said that it granted Abbott (NYSE:ABT) a new indication for its MitraClip system, expanding coverage of the device to patients with normal mitral valves with diminished left heart function.
The indication expands upon the original approval, which the Chicago-area medical device maker won in 2013, clearing it for use in reducing mitral regurgitation in patients with mitral valve abnormalities whose risks for mitral valve surgery were prohibitive.
With its new clearance, the MitraClip is cleared for use for patients with normal mitral valves who develop heart failure symptoms and moderate-to-severe or severe ...
Source: Mass Device - March 14, 2019 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Fink Densford Tags: Cardiac Implants Cardiovascular Featured Food & Drug Administration (FDA) Regulatory/Compliance Abbott Source Type: news
California Jury Awards $29 Million to Woman Who Says She Got Cancer from Johnson & Johnson Baby Powder
A woman who claims asbestos in Johnson & Johnson products caused her deadly cancer was awarded $29.4 million by a California jury on Wednesday, Reuters reports.
A jury in a California Superior Court in Oakland determined that defective Baby Powder was a “substantial contributing factor” to Terry Leavitt’s mesothelioma, an aggressive cancer that affects the tissue that coats internal organs, the Associated Press reports. Leavitt said she often used two talcum-powder-based Johnson & Johnson products — Baby Powder and Shower to Shower powder — in the 1960s and 1970s, and claims they contr...
Source: TIME: Health - March 14, 2019 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized Cancer onetime Source Type: news
