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Introduction
Protecting the public from foodborne illness is critically important and remains a major public health responsibility. Nonetheless, it ...
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The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department has vaccinated a little more than one-fourth of county students during in-school flu vaccine clinics this fall, officials said. As of Monday, the program has provided vaccines for 26 percent of the countys student population. The flu clinics started in early September and will wrap up this week. Since 2009, the Health Department has partnered with Kanawha County schools and private schools to offer flu vaccines to every student in the county. Health officials started offering vaccines in response to the outbreak of H1N1. Since then it has become an annual program. The number of students vaccinated this year held steady from last year when about the same number of students opted to get vaccines, said Dr. Rahul Gupta, executive director of the Heal...
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SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
Syllabus
ARKANSAS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES ET AL. v. AHLBORN
CERTIORARI TO ...
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Holiday Inn
Bradley Drive, Christiansburg
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The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC or the Commission) is closing a petition for rulemaking (PRM-31-5) submitted by the Organization of Agreement States, Inc. (OAS). The petition requested that the NRC amend its regulations to strengthen the regulation of radioactive materials by requiring a specific license for higher- activity devices that are currently available under a general license, and change the compatibility designation of applicable regulations from category B to category C. The petition also addresses a request filed by the Florida Department of Health, Bureau of Radiation Control, to change the compatibility category of a certain part of the applicable regulation from category B to category C. In response to the petition, the NRC developed a proposed rule that would...
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United States Court of Appeals
For the First Circuit
No. 10-1761
CASSANDRA HAWKINS, ET AL.,
Plaintiffs, Appellants,
v.
DEPARTM...
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The Allegheny County Health Department announced that its free pediatric and adolescent dental clinic in Lawrenceville will close Sept. 30.
Until new space is found for the dental clinic elsewhere in the Lawrenceville area, families are being referred to other health department dental clinics in Mount Oliver and McKeesport or the nearby Hill House Association dental clinic in the Hill District.
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Kanawha County officials are keeping up pressure on the Kanawha- Charleston Health Department to adopt letter grades for local restaurant inspections.
Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper has been pushing for school-style letter grades for restaurants since October, after several local restaurant owners complained about a new Health Department inspector who was zealously enforcing health regulations. Some restaurant owners complained that the rules were unclear and being enforced inconsistently.
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Individuals who claim they're "transgender" are suing the New York City Health Department over what they say is discrimination. These people are upset because the city won't change the sex listed on their birth certificates unless they've had elaborate surgery to refashion their private parts and received subsequent psychiatric evaluations attesting to the permanence of their supposed "transition" to the opposite gender.
The claimants want the bureaucracy to make it easier to change the sex that was recorded at birth, noting that parents fixing mistakes (typos) in listing a child's sex only have to provide a letter from the birth hospital. "Knowing that it was a mistake in the first place, and having that fixed, is pretty important to me," said Joann Prinzivalli, who was born Paul yet l...
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With temperatures near 90 degrees and high humidity making it feel more like the mid-90s, the Allegheny County Health Department is urging residents to avoid extended exposure to the heat and sun.
For those who are unable to avoid the heat -- especially the elderly, infants, children up to 4 years of age and those who are overweight -- Allegheny County Health Department Public Information Officer Guillermo Cole urges drinking a cup of water every hour or whenever you get thirsty to stay hydrated.