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Noosa boaties say they are angry the State Government is not maintaining the health and safety of the Noosa River.

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Boaties protest state of river (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

The VA Maryland Health Care System won the Robert W. Carey Performance Achievement Award for its excellent performance in patient care, patient satisfaction, quality, safety and business practices.

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VA Maryland Health Care System Receives Performance Achievement Carey Award (PRWeb via Yahoo! News)

The VA Maryland Health Care System won the Robert W. Carey Performance Achievement Award for its excellent performance in patient care, patient satisfaction, quality, safety and business practices. (PRWeb Nov 22, 2009) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/11/prweb3238794.htm

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VA Maryland Health Care System Receives Performance Achievement Carey Award (PRWeb)

Farm safety is firmly on the curriculum for the new intake of students at the Scottish Agricultural College, with practical advice and guidance from the Health and Safety Executive.

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Farming Out The Safety Message To Students, Scotland (Medical News Today)

Indian eggs and discussed various other issues pertaining to public health including the quality of saffron sold in the market, use of stapler pins on tea bags, and the oxygen content in a brand of bottled water.

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Food safety measures reviewed (The Peninsula)

Nurses, dentists and other professionals with addictions will be subject to more drug tests, and any restrictions to their licenses will be listed on public websites. In a major shift, California will impose tough new standards on drug-abusing health professionals, strictly scrutinizing those in treatment and immediately removing from practice anyone who relapses.

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California adopts stricter rules for drug abusers in the health industry (Los Angeles Times)

You may not realize it, but food-safety precautions apply to pet food. Pet food and treats that are contaminated with salmonella can cause food-borne illness in dogs and cats and people, especially children, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. So treat pet food as you would people food:

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Fido, Fluffy And Food Safety (Hartford Courant)

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is increasing its investment in understanding the potential health, safety and environmental issues related to tiny particles that are used in many everyday products such as sunscreens, cosmetics and electronics.

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NIEHS Awards Recovery Act Funds to Focus More Research on Health and Safety of Nanomaterials (National Institutes of Health)

The so-called Kalan ng Bayan or Methane Kitchen in Nangka village in Marikina City was closed down on Thursday due to health and safety reasons.

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Marikina methane kitchen shut down for health and safety reasons (GMA News)

As Obama’s Department of Education touts its charter-school-propelling “Race to the Top,” whose regulations were issued last week, let’s heed the moral of the fable that we all learned in grade school: In the end, the Tortoise beats out the Hare. Alan Gottlieb recently wrote about a plan by the Denver Public Schools to effectively morph charters into standard neighborhood schools, whereby kids in a particular catchment area would be steered to them by default. This is a terribly important move whose outcomes we should carefully observe. Charters typically require students’ parents to enter them into lotteries, from which they might be selected to attend the given school. This creates a huge self-selection bias problem, whereby the students who wind up in charters will be the children of engaged parents, and who will therefore tend to do better than their peers, no matter the school they attend. I wrote about this in the Boston Globe a few months back: Critics of charter schools have long expressed concern that charters tilt toward students with certain advantages over their peers in traditional public schools. To matriculate at a charter school, a child typically needs to be entered into a lottery of all those students seeking admission. This requires having a parent or guardian who is highly involved in a child’s education — enough to know about the possibility of his or her child attending a charter, to conclude that to do so would benefit the child, to apply to enter the lottery and follow its proceedings. Charter parents must also frequently agree to substantial participation in the child’s schooling. Children of parents who play this active role in their education will tend to perform better in school than children of less-involved parents. The effect of such parental involvement has been measured: Controlling for race, gender, and socio-economics, students with involved parents will tend to achieve at about the 75th percentile — well above average. Surely, most parents want their children to excel in school, and beyond, and will work as well as they can toward those ends. But for any of a variety of reasons — health, language barriers, constraints from employment, or, sometimes, lack of concern — some children simply do not have stable adult guidance in their schooling. Parental engagement in education should be strongly encouraged, but having involved parents should never be a prerequisite for a child to gain access to the best opportunities. That would mean many kids – those who are already somewhat disadvantaged — would unfairly miss out. Different jurisdictions have studied this phenomenon to varying degrees, but in Boston, for instance, it’s well-documented: A 2009 study by the pro-charter Boston Foundation made it clear that students entering charter schools entered with higher test scores than their peers. Despite these inherent advantages, and even more disturbing because of them, charters vary wildly in the quality of education that they provide: The pro-charter hype can make it hard to believe, but studies have repeatedly demonstrated that, on average, charter students tend to perform at or below the level of their peers in traditional public schools. (Here’s a recent study out of New York . And there are multiple federal studies , undertaken by the charter-friendly Bush administration, with similar findings.) Cash-strapped states need to be wary of the pro-charter hype, especially as the federal government urges them to reorient their budgets and education policies in order to vie for a paltry one-off shot of $4 billion in stimulus funds — which amounts to less than one percent of annual total public school spending across our nation. (Rhode Island is the only state with no school funding formula, and has the worst reliance on property taxes to fund education. Yet creating a single new 75-student charter became the focus of local education “reformers’” efforts this year, as they scrambled for a piece of that pie.) To improve the quality of public education is an unambiguously laudable goal, and so too are many of the more specific undertakings that Obama is encouraging: “reinvigorating math and science education,” promoting stakeholder collaborations, implementing “statewide longitudinal data systems,” “improving teacher preparation,” and so on. But there’s no quick fix to our education system: While many are indeed of high quality, the current crop of charters has proved no panacea. Where charters outperform traditional public schools, we need to make sure that placements are fairly distributed. Where they perform worse, states must stop turning a blind eye, and reign them in. Pedagogy is quite important, but genuine equity in education will occur only in a generally equitable society: No education reform is comprehensive that does not entail progressive taxation, a stronger labor movement, and environmental and social justice more broadly. More on Parenting

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David Segal: Slow And Steady As We "Race To The Top"

LONDON, Nov 13 French oil company Total has admitted safety breaches, and to polluting ground water, in connection with an explosion at a fuel depot in England in 2005. Frances largest listed company said it entered pleas of guilty at a hearing on Friday, to charges brought by regulators the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and the Environment Agency (EA). Total UK regrets the unfortunate …

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Total admits safety breaches in fuel depot blast (The Malaysian Insider)

Detroit Public Television is the Best-Managed Nonprofit in that city , as chosen by Crain’s Detroit Business . The publication cites DPT’s programming shift to five areas “critical to the region,” children/education, arts/culture, energy/environment, health/safety and jobs/leadership — while reducing its operational costs by $2.4 million.

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Nov 16, 2009 (Current (Public Broadcasting))

Twelve national organizations representing all areas of the health sector, joined by the David Suzuki Foundation, have produced a joint statement spelling out a new commitment to creating an environmentally responsible health sector.

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National health leaders collaborate to create environmentally responsible health care system (News-Medical-Net)

A visiting New York-based professor of chemistry urged the Filipinos to apply a precautionary principle that will protect consumers from activities that raise threats of harm to environment or human health.

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Apply precaution vs environment harm, Pinoys urged (Manila Bulletin)

Two new studies of pedestrian safety found that using a cell phone while hoofing it can endanger one’s health. Older pedestrians, in particular, are impaired when crossing a busy (simulated) street while speaking on a mobile phone, the researchers found.

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Walking hazard: Cell-phone use — but not music — reduces pedestrian safety (PhysOrg)

Two new studies of pedestrian safety found that using a cell phone while hoofing it can endanger one’s health.

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Walking hazard: Cell-phone use — but not music — reduces pedestrian safety (Science Daily)

Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents.

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Health and safety snoops to enter family homes (Times Online)

TYROL, Italy, November 12 /PRNewswire/ — Health Robotics today announced that Innomed/BioRobotics, on the heels of its prior market success with Oncology Surgery robots, has exclusively selected Health Robotics’ CytoCare Robot to reach its objective to become the gold standard for Oncology Robotics IV Admixtures in the Republic of Korea and synergistically provide an end-to-end Cancer Robotics …

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Health Robotics Reaches 100% Asia-Pacific Coverage Through its New Exclusive Distribution Contract With BioRobotics in … (PR Newswire via Yahoo!…

Some 350 experts from 50 nations gathering in Mexico for their 3rd global meeting will outline the latest creative applications of DNA barcoding, including several projects related to human health, fraud, smuggling, the food chain and reconstructing environmental history.

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DNA Barcodes: Creative New Uses Span Health, Fraud, Smuggling, History, More (Science Daily)

The Public Safety department at St. Bernardine Medical Center has been named a Program of Distinction by the International Association for Healthcare Security and Safety (IAHSS), making it one of only two hospitals in the state to receive this recognition as well as the first hospital within its parent company Catholic Healthcare Wests network of 41 hospitals.

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St. Bernardine’s Public Safety Department achieves statewide recognition (Fontana Herald News)