Quest Diagnostics released an overview of the first quarter-century of experience with the Drug-Free Workplace Act, more than 125 million urine tests in all, and showed overall use of most drugs has fallen significantly.
"Blood exposure among health care workers is a serious occupational risk that health care facilities strive to reduce," said Linda Good, director of Employee Occupational Services for Scripps Health and co-author of the EXPO-S.T.O.P. survey. "For the first time, we now have stick and splash exposure benchmark rates that represent the United States nationally."
This has been an annual outreach by the agency about "Black Friday" sales since a worker was trampled to death Nov. 28, 2008, at a Wal-Mart store in Valley Stream, N.Y.
The accident, which happened at a silver mine, has left at least two dead and 20 injured.
Dr. Elisabeth Hagen announced she will be stepping down in mid-December.
A series of tornadoes tore through the Midwest on Sunday, primarily damaging areas of central and southern Illinois.
The 2013 Scientific Sessions taking place in Dallas includes the Resuscitation Science Symposium. Besides 18,000 in-person attendees, more than 1.5 million virtual attendees are participating.
The Atomic Safety and Licensing Board's hearing in Houston is now set for Jan. 6, 2014.
Lisa Raitt, the country's minister of transport, announced them Nov. 17 and said stakeholders have 30 days in which to submit comments.
A state auditor determines that “diversion programs” that allow drivers to take courses instead of paying for tickets are illegal.
Railroad companies across the nation have asked safety regulators to require cars that carry flammable liquids to be modified or upgraded.
The California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement has submitted its official comments on the act, suggesting a different, quicker regulatory move.
The contractors could have prevented it, had they not ignored basic demolition standards, Assistant Secretary Dr. David Michaels said Nov. 14.
Terry Garrison announced he'll return to Phoenix to attend to an ailing grandson.
NDK Crystal, Inc. for years did not conduct inspections of the pressure vessels used to generate large crystals, under very high pressure and temperatures, at its Belvidere, Ill., plant, according to the investigative agency.