Some 5 million Medicare Part D enrollees age 65 and older are not taking their blood pressure medicine properly, increasing their risk of heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and death, according to a new Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
The American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) and the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) are launching a joint effort to raise awareness of new standards that are important for all workers and companies that install, alter or maintain communication towers.
Incident contaminated drinking water of nine counties
September 15, 2016
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) will meet on, September 28, 2016 to release its final report and safety recommendations into the January 9, 2014, chemical storage tank leak that contaminated the drinking water of up to 300,000 residents of nine West Virginia Counties.
Getting recommended levels of exercise weekly may help keep down annual medical costs both for people with and without cardiovascular disease, according to new research in Journal of the American Heart Association, the Open Access Journal of the American Heart Association/American Stroke Association.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) will meet tomorrow to determine what caused a passenger jet to slide off a runway at LaGuardia Airport on March 5, 2015.
As an 11-year veteran of the Mine Safety and Health Administration and a member of MSHA’s Mine Emergency Unit since 2007, I have responded to a number of mine fires and explosions around the country, the most disastrous being the Upper Big Branch blast in 2010 that killed 29 coal miners.
A dozen workers die almost every day in the U.S. as a result of a traumatic injury on the job. In order to identify the factors that contribute to these fatal injuries, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) conducts investigations through its Fatality Assessment and Control Evaluation (FACE) program.
Head protection for the cold weather ahead, a gas detection guarantee and a dual color LED warning light were among the top products featured this week on ISHN.com.
NIOSH teaches job safety to youngsters, non-drug approaches to pain management and OSHA expands its Spanish language offerings. These were among the top stories featured this week on ISHN.com.