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- Lessons in Shooter Safety
The loudness of a sound is measured in units called decibels (dB). An ordinary conversation is approximately 60 dB; city traffic noise can reach 80 dB; and firearms can reach an ear-piercing 140 to 170 dB. Loud noises above 80 dB can damage the inner ear for good. Not only can sudden loud noises, like gunshots or firecrackers at close range, result in hearing loss, but prolonged exposure to machine noise in a workshop can be damaging too. Fact: Noise-induced hearing loss is one of America's...
National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders
- Study Confirms Safety of Placing Infants to Sleep on their Backs
Infants Who Sleep on Back Have Fewer Fevers and Ear Infections
A team of researchers reports that infants who are placed to sleep on their backs are not at increased risk for health problems, and they are less likely to develop fevers, get stuffy noses, or develop otitis media (ear infection). Placing infants to sleep on their backs has been found to reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). The current study goes beyond earlier studies from other countries, showing not only that there do not appear to be adverse health effects from placing...
National Institutes of Health
- FDA Issues Final Two Proposed Food Safety Regulations
FDA today announced publication of the final two food safety proposed regulations required by the Public Health Security and Bioterrorism Preparedness and Response Act of 2002 ("The Act"), which gave FDA new authority to protect the nation's food supply. The proposals are two of four proposed regulations that the Act calls upon FDA to develop regarding food safety. These two proposals deal with establishing and maintaining records among food firms, and the administrative detention of...
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Workplace Fire Safety
U.S. Department of Labor Fire safety is important business. According to National Safety Council figures, losses due to workplace fires in 1991 totaled $2.1 billion. Of the 4,200 persons who lost their lives due to fires in 1991, the National Safety Council estimates 327 were workplace deaths. Fires and burns accounted for 3.3 percent of all occupational fatalities. There is a long and tragic history of workplace fires in this country. One of the most notable was the fire at the Triangle...
National Ag Safety Database
- Farm Safety & Health: Farm Electrical Safety
Chip Petrea University of Illinois Many hazards that farmers deal with are routine, everyday exposures. As a result of this routine, the farmer could perceive the risk as less than it really is. Few things are more standard today than electricity. Depended upon to make our lives easier and more comfortable, electricity may only become a consideration when it is NOT where we need or want it. This situation can and does cause death, injury, and property damage every year. While most of us keep...
National Ag Safety Database
Organizations
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- Farm Safety Just 4 Kids - http://www.fs4jk.org/
- National Safety Council - http://www.nsc.org/
- National Ag Safety Database - http://www.cdc.gov/nasd/
- U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission - http://www.cpsc.gov/
- National Water Safety Congress - http://www.watersafetycongress.org/
News
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- U.S. Reviewing Safety of Children’s Cough Drugs
New York Times - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 04:02 EST
- Understanding Occupational Safety And Health Issues Of Nanotechnology
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 28 Feb 2007 04:00 EST
- Hospital Trustees Begin To Focus On Patient Safety
MedicalNewsToday - Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:00 EST
- Report faults FDA drug-safety tracking system: WSJ
Reuters - Mon, 05 Mar 2007 03:15 EST
- FDA examining safety of cough, cold drugs for kids
Reuters - Fri, 02 Mar 2007 08:56 EST
Clinical Trials
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- A Safety and Tolerability Study of the Combination of Aliskiren/Valsartan in Patients With High Blood Pressure, Followed by Long-Term Safety and Tolerability of Aliskiren, Valsartan and Hydrochlorothiazide.
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00386607 - Active, not recruiting
Hypertension
- Improving Pediatric Safety and Quality with Health Care Information Technology
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00134823 - Active, not recruiting
MEDICATION ERRORS; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; PATIENT SAFETY; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT
- Safety of AEB071 in Healthy Volunteers and to Compare the Ethnicity, Metabolic, and Safety Effects Between Caucasian and Japanese Healthy Subjects
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00416546 - Recruiting
Healthy
- Booster Vaccination Study to Assess Immune Response & Safety of a Dose of GSK Biologicals’ Mencevax™ ACWY at 24-30 Mths Age & to Assess Immune Response & Safety of 1/5th of a Dose of Mencevax™ ACWY at 30-36 Mths Age in Subjects Primed in
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00291343 - Active, not recruiting
Diphtheria; Tetanus; Pertussis; Hepatitis B; Hib Diseases; Neisseria Meningitidis Serogroups A & C Diseases
- Safety and Immunogenicity of FluBlok in Pediatrics
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT00336453 - Active, not recruiting
Influenza

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