Toxicity of boric acid, borax and other boron containing compounds: a review - Hadrup N, Frederiksen M, Sharma AK.
Boron, often in the form of boric acid, is widely used as a flame retardant in insulation products, and although humans ingest boron through food, high exposure may lead to unwanted health effects. We assessed the toxicity of boric acid, borax and other fo...
Source: SafetyLit - January 25, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Home and Consumer Product Safety Source Type: news

EPA Evaluation Finds Asbestos Still An Unreasonable Risk
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released Part 1 of its Final Risk Evaluation for Asbestos, reaffirming preliminary findings from March that were roundly criticized for underestimating the dangers of exposure to this toxic mineral. Six ongoing use categories of asbestos were evaluated by the EPA, which found 16 conditions of use that presented unreasonable risk to human health through either occupational exposures or consumer uses. Part 1 of the evaluation, released in late December 2020, involved the chrysotile type of asbestos. Chrysotile is the only type of asbestos being imported, processed or distributed for u...
Source: Asbestos and Mesothelioma News - January 6, 2021 Category: Environmental Health Authors: Fran Mannino Source Type: news

Association between home insulation and hospital admission rates: retrospective cohort study using linked data from a national intervention programme
Conclusion: This study showed that a national home insulation intervention was associated with reduced hospital admissions, supporting previous research, which found an improvement in self-reported health.
Source: Current Awareness Service for Health (CASH) - December 31, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Analysis of thermal characteristics and insulation resistance based on the installation year and accelerated test by electrical socket outlets - Kim KC, Kim DH, Kim SC, Kim JH.
BACKGROUND: Electrical socket outlets are used continuously until a failure occurs because they have no indication of manufacturing date or exchange specifications. For this reason, 659 electrical fires related to electrical socket outlets broke out in the...
Source: SafetyLit - December 21, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

FDA approves Roche ’s OCREVUS® (ocrelizumab) shorter 2-hour infusion for relapsing and primary progressive multiple sclerosis
Basel, 14 December 2020 - Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a shorter two-hour infusion time for OCREVUS ® (ocrelizumab), dosed twice-yearly for those living with relapsing or primary progressive multiple sclerosis (MS) who have not experienced any prior serious infusion reactions (IRs). The approval was based on data from the randomised, double-blind ENSEMBLE PLUS study.“More than 170,000 people with MS have been treated with OCREVUS - the only approved B-cell therapy with a twice-yearly dosing schedule - and it is the most prescribed MS med...
Source: Roche Media News - December 14, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Excellence in Construction Awards: Alpha Insulation ensured fireproofing for WellStar Kennestone's new ER
Alpha Insulation and Waterproofing won an Excellence Award in the Specialty Contractor Other Specialty Construction Under $1 million category of the Associated Builders and Contractors of Georgia Inc.'s Excellence in Construction Awards.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Physician Practices headlines - December 5, 2020 Category: American Health Source Type: news

Experimental study on flammability and flame spread characteristics of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) cable - An W, Tang Y, Liang K, Wang T, Zhou Y, Wen Z.
Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) is widely applied in cables as insulation materials, which are vital for operation and control of industrial processes. However, PVC cables fires frequently occur, arousing public concern. Therefore, experimental methods are use...
Source: SafetyLit - December 4, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

Giant temperature span in electrocaloric regenerator
Cooling devices based on caloric materials have emerged as promising candidates to become the next generation of coolers. Several electrocaloric (EC) heat exchangers have been proposed that use different mechanisms and working principles. However, a prototype that demonstrates a competitive temperature span has been missing. We developed a parallel-plate active EC regenerator based on lead scandium tantalate multilayer capacitors. After optimizing the structural design by using finite element modeling for guidance and to considerably improve insulation, we measured a maximum temperature span of 13.0 kelvin. This temperatur...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 30, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Torello, A., Lheritier, P., Usui, T., Nouchokgwe, Y., Gerard, M., Bouton, O., Hirose, S., Defay, E. Tags: Physics, Applied, Materials Science reports Source Type: news

New data further reinforce Roche ’s OCREVUS (ocrelizumab) as a highly effective treatment for people with multiple sclerosis
Basel, 11 September 2020 – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced new data that show OCREVUS® (ocrelizumab) is a highly effective treatment option for people with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) who experienced a suboptimal response to their prior disease modifying therapy (DMT). Subgroup analys is from the two-year open-label Phase IIIb CASTING study also demonstrates that patients benefit across a wide range of disease related and demographic subgroups, regardless of prior treatment background. Findings will be presented at MSVirtual2020, the 8th Joint Meeting of the Americas Committee for Tr...
Source: Roche Media News - September 11, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Roche expands its multiple sclerosis portfolio with investigational BTK inhibitor fenebrutinib and initiates novel clinical trials for OCREVUS (ocrelizumab)
Basel, 9 September 2020 – Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced the initiation of an innovative Phase III clinical trial programme for its investigational medicine fenebrutinib in multiple sclerosis (MS), along with a higher-dose Phase III clinical trial programme for OCREVUS® (ocrelizumab) and a distinct O CREVUS trial specifically to support African-American and Hispanic- and Latinx-American patients with MS. Overviews of clinical trials and scientific rationale will be presented at MSVirtual2020, the 8th Joint Meeting of the Americas Committee for Treatment and Research in Multiple Sclerosis (ACTRIM S) a...
Source: Roche Media News - September 9, 2020 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

Effect of ignition condition on the extinction limit for opposed flame spread over electrical wires in microgravity - Nagachi M, Mitsui F, Citerne JM, Dutilleul H, Guibaud A, Jomaas G, Legros G, Hashimoto N, Fujita O.
Flame spread over wire insulation plays a crucial role in spacecraft fire safety. To quantify the effect of the initial ignition condition on the limiting oxygen concentration (LOC) of spreading flame over wire insulation, opposed flow flame spread experim...
Source: SafetyLit - August 30, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news

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