Parks, Playgrounds Built on Old Dump Sites Could Be Hotspots for Lead
FRIDAY, Sept. 15, 2023 -- That beautiful park you walk through could be hiding dangerous levels of lead. So, too, could the soil under the play equipment where your children slide and swing. New research in the United States finds that urban parks...
Source: Drugs.com - Daily MedNews - September 15, 2023 Category: General Medicine Source Type: news

Anne Constantino: A career dedicated to treatment, growth and compassion
In her 30 years as leader, Horizon Corps. grew to $73 million in revenue, 800 employees and 20 sites in three counties with a range of residential and outpatient counseling and drug and alcohol addiction services.
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - September 15, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Tracey Drury Source Type: news

Philadelphia council bans safe-injection sites in most of the city
The vote underscores broader tensions over the concept of such facilities.
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - September 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: David Ovalle Source Type: news

Venice faces possible UNESCO downgrade as it struggles to manage mass tourism
VENICE, Italy -- Venice on Thursday again escaped the tarnish of UNESCO's list of world heritage sites in danger, drawing a victory cheer from the mayor but scorn from environmentalists and scientists alarmed by the impact of mass tourism and climate change on the storied lagoon city. At a meeting…#venice #unesco #saudiarabia #rome #stmarkssquare #giudecca #luigibrugnaro #risk #janedamosto #damosto
Source: Reuters: Health - September 14, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

U.S. cancels or curtails half of its Antarctic research projects
Marine biologist Michelle Shero had every reason to expect this to be a better year on the Antarctic ice. Since receiving a 5-year, $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) in 2019 to study the reproductive success of Weddell seals in McMurdo Sound, Shero has been sent down for just one, truncated field season. But in January NSF had assured Shero that her team would be deployed in October for a full 4 months, and by June she had packed up and shipped out some $200,000 in equipment and supplies. So Shero, a tenure-track assistant scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, was stun...
Source: ScienceNOW - September 14, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

GIFT ARTICLE: New top priority at Lake Nona ’s National SimVET Center: Testing tech
The National SimVET Center in Lake Nona is relaunching on Sept. 14 to celebrate its new mandate: test out technologies to see which ones will help providers give better care via the 1,000-plus Veterans Administration care sites around the nation. The relaunch event is from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. at 13800 Veterans Way, Bldg. 13 Orlando, FL 32827. While SimVET will continue to offer simulated training experiences for frontline health care workers, “there was always a vision to do more testing and…
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - September 14, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Sarah Kinbar Source Type: news

Methylation Score Can ID Risk for Cervical Adenocarcinomas
WEDNESDAY, Sept. 13, 2023 -- A methylation score, composed of the average methylation percentage across 35 CpG sites in the L2/L1 open reading frames of human papillomavirus (HPV)16, 18, and 45, and two human loci, can identify the risk for cervical...
Source: Drugs.com - Pharma News - September 13, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news

E. Coli Source Sought In Daycare-Associated Outbreak In Canada
Investigators are testing samples from a kitchen shared by 11 childcare sites as hundreds of individuals test positive for E. coli.
Source: Forbes.com Healthcare News - September 13, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Andrea Anderson, Contributor Tags: Healthcare /healthcare Innovation /innovation standard Source Type: news

Deel Halts Services to Several Prop Trading Firms Pending Compliance Review
Deel, the human resources startup embroiled in a government crackdown on online trading sites, has paused providing payout services to several businesses in the category, as it conducts a review of their operations. An executive at MyFundedFX who identified himself as the firm’s chief operating…#discord #deel #bespokefunding #lewiskaler
Source: Reuters: Health - September 12, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Dallas-based private equity firm makes $200M bet on clinical research firm
Dallas-based Surge Private Equity LLC has invested in Elite Clinical Network LLC, a Las Vegas-based company started in 2013, that operates a network of 14 clinical research sites throughout California, Arizona and Nevada
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines - September 11, 2023 Category: Biotechnology Authors: Holden Wilen Source Type: news

UK Geothermal Sites Near Financial Close After Auction Win
Source: Reuters: Health - September 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Erasmus: I Want YOU to Support Our Online Treasure
By Erasmus, an academic in the humanities Naked Capitalism is among the best sites for a daily dose of interesting, well-researched articles and incisive discussion covering an astonishingly broad range of topics, from finance to current events, politics, international affairs, history, culture…#nakedcapitalism #tipjar #postmodernist #tiktok #yvessmith #lambertstrether #nickcorbishley #conorgallagher #klg #yveslambert
Source: Reuters: Health - September 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

9/11 was 22 years ago. And we ' re still holding funerals
Even now, 22 years later, the death toll from the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, continues to climb. Even this long after the last embers were extinguished and the acrid smoke of three crash sites settled on now-sacred soil, the dying goes on. First responders continue to succumb to certain…#fbispecial #jackhess #fbi #pentagon #americanairlines #flight77 #christopherwray #hess #worldtradecenter #shanksville
Source: Reuters: Health - September 11, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Off Lease Only closes operations after bankruptcy; 466 out of work in Florida
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Off Lease Only, a used car dealership based in West Palm Beach, has closed all of its locations after filing for bankruptcy, putting 466 people out of work in Florida. Before halting opereations, it had 500 vehicles at its five sites: 1200 S. Congress Avenue in West Palm…#westpalmbeach #fla #florida #northlauderale #bradenton #opalocka #orlando #katy #houston #offlease
Source: Reuters: Health - September 10, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news