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Alice Hamilton: Industrial Health Pioneer and the First Female Epidemiologist

CSTE

CSTE celebrates March 2023 as Womens History Month As Womens History Month comes to a close, CSTE is featuring Alice Hamilton, the first female epidemiologist and a pioneer in industrial health and safety. We are pleased to celebrate the importance of women in occupational health and epidemiology.

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Human, Bird, or Dog Waste? Scientists Parsing Poop To Aid DC’s Forgotten River

KFF Health News

” said Amy Sapkota , a professor of environmental and occupational health at the University of Maryland. Scientists monitor E. coli to indicate the presence of feces in river water, but since the bacteria live in the guts of most warm-blooded animals, the source is difficult to determine. “Is it human feces?

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Boost for Open Access in Asia as Frontiers and Taiwan’s NHRI seal deal

Frontiers

It focuses on fields including aging, cancer, infectious diseases and vaccine research, genomic medicine, biomedical engineering, biotechnology and drug discovery, environmental and occupational health, population health, and health policy.

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How a Proposed Federal Heat Rule Might Have Saved These Workers’ Lives

KFF Health News

But health policy and occupational health researchers say that worker deaths are not inevitable. Both estimates are upsetting, said Linda McCauley, dean of the nursing school at Emory University and an occupational health researcher. The advocacy organization Public Citizen estimates that as many as 2,000 U.S.

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Trash Incinerators Disproportionately Harm Black and Hispanic People

KFF Health News

She cited an environmental consultant’s assessment that the health risk is “below the risk posed by simply walking down the street and breathing air that includes car exhaust.” ” But some environmental health experts say it’s not only a facility’s day-to-day operations that are cause for concern.