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Stories of workplace injury and death always hit me hard. No one should be hurt on the job. As an engineer, I’ve lost sleep thinking about my own role in protecting workers and the public. Workplace safety is achievable, but it requires a cultural change.
#Preventable #WorkerSafety #Burnaby
Hundreds are quarantined in #SouthCarolina as #measles spreads in 2 #US outbreaks
Measles outbreaks are growing along the #Utah - #Arizona border & in SC, where hundreds are in #quarantine.
Between Friday & Tuesday, SC #health officials confirmed 27 new measles cases in an #outbreak in & around northwestern Spartanburg County. In 2 months, 111 people have been sickened by the #vaccine #preventable #virus.
#PublicHealth #vaccines #science #medicine #Trump #RFKJr
https://apnews.com/article/measles-outbreak-south-carolina-utah-arizona-3bfc561ecc16d8e80175effdae0791d4
Coroner finds diving death of Aaron Matthews near East Cape was preventable
Coroner Katherine Greig said inexperience and “unsafe diving practices”, including incorrectly assembled scuba equipment, contributed to the tragedy,…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #aaron #cape #Coroner #Death #Diving #east #finds #matthews #near #NewZealand #NZ #of #preventable #was
https://www.newsbeep.com/274451/
Coroner finds Leonard Collett’s fatal fall in Taranaki Base Hospital ED was ‘foreseeable and preventable’
While waiting to be transferred to a ward, he was seen struggling to get back into bed after…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #and #base #colletts #Coroner #ed #fall #fatal #finds #foreseeable #hospital #in #Leonard #NewZealand #NZ #preventable #taranaki #was
https://www.newsbeep.com/241909/
🤦 Canada loses its official ‘measles-free’ status as vaccination rates fall
#embarrassing #health #preventable
theconversation.com/canada-loses...
Canada loses its official ‘mea...
Death of child trapped in fence at childcare centre ruled ‘preventable’
The death of a toddler who became trapped on a fence at a childcare centre outside Darwin last…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #AU #Australia #ban #centre #childcare #Coroner #court #Death #Earlylearning #ebony #ebony'slaw #fence #fencing #findings #gate #humptydoo #inquest #loop #nt #preventable #recommendations #supervision #thompson #threestrikes #Toddler #top
https://www.newsbeep.com/209527/
@PBSNewsHour @health-PBSNewsHour who do we sue when children and health fragile people start to die of a #preventable ##disease ?#antivaxxers are a menace to the world
#Florida will eliminate all state #vaccine #mandates, including #school requirements for #hepatitisB, #chickenpox, #Hib, and pneumococcal shots, w others potentially rolled back through legislation. #Publichealth experts warn this will lower #vaccination rates, create pockets of unprotected children, and set the stage for outbreaks of #preventable #diseases. Resurgence of illnesses like #measles, #pertussis, #flu, hospitalizations, death. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/florida-ending-vaccine-mandates-rest-us/story?id=125360736
Reminder to #MaskUpSaveLives.
More than #covid is #airborne - #measles is airborne too. Also, with #wildfires & folks with pollen allergy issues - wearing a mask helps with not getting super sick, especially if others also mask up. You're guaranteed only one life - don't fuck it up by simply refusing to #MaskUp
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/measles
#Contagious #Health #Medical #CDNpoli #BCpoli #FireBonnieHenry #Preventative #BeProactive #DoBetter #TakeAction #YallStillMasking #ProtectCommunity #CommunityHealth #HealthFirst #Rubeola #Preventable #FactSheet #Science
Old diseases are new again, thanks to RFK,Jr. and changes in vaccine policy...
New docs get schooled in old diseases as vax rates fall
Rush University Medical Center in Chicago is adding a new twist to its curriculum for medical students and residents, using AI tools and learning modules to teach how to more quickly identify measles rashes on different skin tones.
Dr. Paul Offit knows his stuff...I got to hear him speak and met him several years ago when I worked with vaccines. Now we are setting disease prevention back decades.
#vaccines #preventable diseases #medicaltraining
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/30/new-docs-get-schooled-in-old-diseases-as-vax-rates-fall
…Some Americans know the reality of these #preventable #diseases all too well. For them, news of #measles outbreaks & rising #WhoopingCough cases brings back terrible memories of lives forever changed – & a longing to spare others from similar pain.
[I can speak to this personally. The Spanish Influenza (which BTWs did not originate in Spain — much like #Trump labeled #COVID “the China virus”) orphaned my grandmother as a toddler killing both her parents & her baby sister.]
Info from @medpagetoday shows the #inhumanity of the current US gov't: #Medicaid cuts passed by #HouseOfRepresentatives would result in 8,000 to 25,000 #preventable #deaths annually, #research shows. Cuts also would mean 1.3 million people will go w/o needed #meds. https://tinyurl.com/57728x2u
Processing the loss of my little cousin, who died Sunday in a traffic 🚦 incident. The tragic thing is that my little cousin was racing with a friend of his without wearing proper motorcycle PPE, category racing. On top of that he was racing on public roads not on a racetrack.
Since the speed was high and proper PPE was not worn, the result was deadly for him
He was only twenty-one
Sigh 😔
#LossofLife #family #PPE #tragic #preventable #permanent #death
Day 29 ⚕️🚒🏥
“Royal Flying Doctor Service Federation chief executive #EmmaBuchanan said more than 32,000 people across the country did not have access to a #GP within a 60-minute drive.
More than 100,000 people do not have access to #MentalHealth resources.
"We know that people who live in very #RemoteAreas are likely to die 14 years earlier to their urban counterparts and that they're dying from causes that are largely #preventable,"
#AusPol / #medical / #resources / #RFDS / #RuralHealth / #Labor / #LNP / #Liberal / #Coalition <https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-28/gp-shortage-rural-communities-queensland-federal-election-2025/105205838>
“This tragedy will have been #preventable” https://youtu.be/yjfrJzdx7DA
Some solid gold served up by the YouTube algorithm from The Onion, 17 years ago #theonion
“ #Alcohol is a leading #preventable cause of #cancer, and alcoholic beverages should carry a warning label as packs of cigarettes do, the U.S. surgeon general said on Friday.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/health/alcohol-surgeon-general-warning.html?unlocked_article_code=1.mU4.qOlq.NWzLFFBeVNQw&smid=url-share
“In the #last #ten #years, hundreds of #children have been #killed undertaking this #journey. These deaths are as #preventable and #unnecessary as they are #tragic. Since 2014, at #least 2,508 #people have died in the #Eastern #Mediterranean #Sea.” #migration #migrants #refugeeswelcome #refugees #asylum
https://www.unicef.org/eca/press-releases/second-deadly-shipwreck-aegean-sea-week-claims-lives-two-more-children
The Georgia hospital that failed to save #Amber #Thurman
may have broken a federal law
🔥when doctors there waited 20 hours to perform a procedure criminalized by the state’s abortion ban,
according to Sen. Ron Wyden, chair of the Senate Finance Committee.
The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act, or #EMTALA, requires hospitals to provide emergency care to stabilize patients who need it
— or transfer them to a hospital that can.
Passed nearly four decades ago, the law applies to any hospital with an emergency department and that accepts Medicare funding,
which includes the one Thurman went to, Piedmont Henry in suburban Atlanta.
The finance committee has authority over the regulatory agency that enforces the law.
In a letter sent Monday, Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, cites ProPublica’s investigation into Thurman’s #death,
which was found #preventable by a state committee of maternal health experts.
The senator’s letter asks Piedmont CEO David Kent whether the hospital has delayed or denied emergency care to pregnant patients since Georgia’s abortion ban went into effect. (Kent did not respond to requests for comment.)
“It is my duty to conduct oversight of potential violations of patients’ rights under these laws,” Wyden wrote.
The senator asked for the hospital’s policies covering treatment of patients with emergencies that require abortion care.
He also asked for a list of personnel involved in making those decisions.
He gave the hospital a deadline of Oct. 24 to provide those and other requested records and answers.
Wyden sent the same letter citing ProPublica’s reporting on Thurman to ⚠️seven hospitals in North Carolina, Florida, Missouri, Louisiana and Texas.
♦️One letter seeks information from a Texas hospital where Yeniifer Alvarez-Estrada Glick died in 2022 from complications of pregnancy including hypertension, as reported by The New Yorker.
♦️Other letters seek information from hospitals where women have reportedly been turned away or experienced delayed care.
The hospitals’ answers could lead to proposed legislation or executive actions to strengthen compliance.
The federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services investigates complaints and can take actions including levying fines against hospitals that violate EMTALA.
Wyden’s committee plans to hold a hearingon Tuesday,
saying in a news release it will
💥 “examine how Donald Trump’s successful overturn of Roe v. Wade and subsequent state abortion bans have threatened access to life-saving medical care for women nationwide.”
https://www.propublica.org/article/amber-thurman-georgia-abortion-wyden-emtala
