Bloggers on occupational diseases
New York University law student on chemotherapy. Another good one is The Pump Handle.
~ Archive for October, 2007 ~
Occupational safety - good news or not?
Really good post over at The Pump Handle. The Labor Department is announcing lower workplace injury rates, the lowest rates recorded since records have been kept. But critics point out that at least part of this is an artifact in how injuries are reported. OSHA changed the definition of injuries/illnesses, and according to researcher Lee Friedman 83% of the decline in reported rates is due to the change in definition.
Congress may push asbestos health research
The Senate passed a bill banning asbestos last week; it now goes to the House.
One feature: the law would require the National Institutes of Health to establish an asbestos-related disease research treatment network. Yeah!
Nobel prize to molecular biologists
The Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine was awarded to scientists who pioneered gene manipulation techniques. Their discoveries allow researchers to produce mice called “knockout” mice, which miss particular genes. Over the last couple decades this method has found wide use in the research into the causes of cancer and many other diseases.
