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CRS – Synthetic Drugs: Overview and Issues for Congress, September 16, 2013. “Synthetic drugs, as opposed to natural drugs, are chemically produced in a laboratory. Their chemical structure can be either identical to or different from naturally occurring drugs, and their effects are designed to mimic or even enhance those of natural drugs. When produced …
Deborah Blum: “For my New York Times column, Poison Pen, I wrote this week about arsenic in drinking water, or more specifically on the increasing scientific awareness that this element – odorless, tasteless – is slowly being revealed as major public health threat. The focus of that piece is the way that arsenic, in the part-per-billion …
Via WaPo by Eli Saslow, September 21: “The survivors took their places onstage from memory, because by now they knew exactly where to go. The shooting victims in wheelchairs entered first, rolling into the front row, wearing bracelets engraved with the words “Aurora,” “Oak Creek” or “Virginia Tech.” Behind them stood a dozen people in black T-shirts …
Google vs. Death How CEO Larry Page has transformed the search giant into a factory for moonshots. Our exclusive look at his boldest bet yet–to extend human life. By Harry McCracken and Lev Grossman “At the moment Google is working on an especially uncertain and distant shot. It is launching Calico, a new company that …
News release: “Sixteen percent of the U.S. civilian noninstitutional population age 15 and over (39.6 million people) provide unpaid eldercare, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Nearly one-fourth of eldercare providers engage in unpaid eldercare on a given day, spending an average of 3.2 hours providing this care. These estimates are averages for …
HEALTH CARE WORKFORCE – Federally Funded Training Programs in Fiscal Year 2012, GAO-13-709R, Aug 15, 2013 POSITIVE TRAIN CONTROL – Additional Authorities Could Benefit Implementation, GAO-13-720, Aug 16, 2013
“Every year, more than two million people in the United States get infections that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a result, according to a new report issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The report, Antibiotic Resistance Threats in the United States, 2013, presents the first snapshot of …
“The Commission on Long-Term Care met on September 12, 2013 and voted in favor of putting the Final Report forward as the broad agreement of the Commission. A summary of the recommendations is available here. The Call to Action is available here. A press release on the Committee vote is available here. The full Final …
Kaiser – “About half the births in the United States are paid for by Medicaid — a figure higher than previous estimates – and the numbers could increase as the state-federal health insurance program expands under the Affordable Care Act, according to a study released Tuesday. All pregnant women with incomes below 133 percent of the federal …
“To improve chemical safety and provide more streamlined access to information on chemicals, EPA has built and is populating a new database. This new database, named ChemView, greatly improves access to health and safety data on chemicals regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). It contains information EPA receives and develops about chemicals including …
Human Rights Watch: “This 22-page report documents two alleged chemical weapons attacks on the opposition-controlled suburbs of Eastern and Western Ghouta, located 16 kilometers apart, in the early hours of August 21, 2013. Human Rights Watch analyzed witness accounts of the rocket attacks, information on the likely source of the attacks, the physical remnants of …
Defense Headquarters – DOD Needs to Reassess Options for Permanent Location of U.S. Africa Command, GAO-13-646, Sep 9, 2013 Global Positioning System – A Comprehensive Assessment of Potential Options and Related Costs is Needed – GAO-13-729, Sep 9, 2013 Homeland Defense – Action Needed to Improve Cost Reporting for DOD’s Aerospace Control Alert Mission – GAO-13-785, Sep 9, 2013 Pesticides – EPA Should …
