Biden Calls for Replacement of All Lead Pipes Within 10 Years
Most U.S. cities would have to replace lead water pipes within 10 years under strict new rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency as the Biden administration moves to reduce lead in drinking water and prevent public health crises like the ones in Flint, Michigan and Washington, D.C.
Millions of people consume drinking water from lead pipes and the agency said tighter standards would improve IQ scores in children and reduce high blood pressure and heart disease in adults. It is the strongest overhaul of lead rules in more than three decades, and will cost billions of dollars. Pulling it off will re...
Source: TIME: Health - December 1, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: MICHAEL PHILLIS and MATTHEW DALY / AP Tags: Uncategorized wire Source Type: news
Quantifying pediatric gun violence by location, time of day, and day of week - Ordoobadi AJ, Wickard A, Heindel P, Raykar N, Masiakos PT, Anderson GA.
The objective of this study was to describe the location and timing of pediatric firearm injuries and to determine the proportion of these injuries that occur within schools in the Uni... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Adolescents Source Type: news
US medical schools should teach students how to counsel patients on firearm injury prevention - Mercado A, Siddiqui T.
Firearm injuries have become an epidemic in the United States. In 2022, more than 48 000 US citizens died from firearm related injuries of all types--unintentional, suicide, and homicide--and in 2020 firearms surpassed motor vehicle accidents as the leadin... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - December 1, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Young Adults Source Type: news
Matt Hancock ‘was not told about eat out to help out scheme until day it was announced’ – as it happened
This live blog is now closed, you canread more on this story hereHancock is now deploying the defence previewed in the Observer on Sunday. (See9.58am.)He says from the middle of January the DHSC was “trying to effectively raise the alarm”. He says:We were trying to wake up Whitehall to the scale of the problem and this wasn ’t a problem that couldn’t be addressed only from the health department. Non-pharmaceutical interventions cannot be put in place by a health department. A health department can’t shut schools. It should have been grasped and led from the centre of government earlier. And you’ve seen evidence...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 30, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Sparrow Tags: Politics UK news Covid inquiry Matt Hancock Coronavirus Conservatives Rishi Sunak Climate crisis Boris Johnson Dominic Cummings Health Science Infectious diseases Alistair Darling Alba Scotland Scottish politics Source Type: news
Matt Hancock denies being a liar and says Dominic Cummings created ‘culture of fear’ which undermined Covid response – live
Health secretary at start of pandemic says Boris Johnson ’s former chief adviser was ‘malign actor’ who made life unpleasantHancock is now deploying the defence previewed in the Observer on Sunday. (See9.58am.)He says from the middle of January the DHSC was “trying to effectively raise the alarm”. He says:We were trying to wake up Whitehall to the scale of the problem and this wasn ’t a problem that couldn’t be addressed only from the health department. Non-pharmaceutical interventions cannot be put in place by a health department. A health department can’t shut schools. It should have been grasped and led ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 30, 2023 Category: Science Authors: Andrew Sparrow Tags: Politics UK news Covid inquiry Matt Hancock Coronavirus Conservatives Rishi Sunak Climate crisis Boris Johnson Dominic Cummings Health Science Infectious diseases Source Type: news
