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• Lifetime traumatic events and high-risk behaviors as predictors of PTSD symptoms in people with severe mental illnesses.

Research is limited regarding the role of high-risk behaviors, trauma, and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms in people with severe mental ...

• Social Work Research
• Vol. 33 Nbr. 4, December 2009

• Extension of Statutory Period for Compensation for Certain Disabilities Due to Undiagnosed Illnesses and Medically Unexplained Chronic Multi-Symptom Illnesses

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is issuing this interim final rule to amend its adjudication regulation regarding compensation for disabilities suffered by veterans who served in the Southwest Asia Theater of Operations during the Persian Gulf War. This amendment is necessary to extend the period during which disabilities associated with undiagnosed illnesses and medically unexplained chronic multi-symptom illnesses must become manifest in order for a veteran to be eligible for compensation.

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 81834, December 29, 2011
• Rules and Regulations
• Veterans Affairs Department

• Threatening Illnesses

Young volunteers from throughout the region recently hosted lemonade stands across the local area to raise funds for the Let It Be Foundation, a nonprofit group based in Chino Hills dedicated to supporting families and patients suffering from life-. Over 300 youth and adults volunteered for the event, organized by the organization's youth organization team youth for youth. The organization was founded in 2006, and has been holding the annual Lemonade Stand event annually since then,

• Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
• September 06, 2011

• Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Task Force Report

The Secretary Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) established the Gulf War Veterans' Illnesses Task Force (GWVI-TF) in August 2009 to conduct a comprehensive review of VA policies and programs addressing 1990-1991 Gulf War Veterans' illnesses. The GWVI-TF published its first annual report in September 2010. The GWVI-TF posted a draft of its 2011 annual report for public comment on October 20, 2011. VA published the report in the Federal Register (76 FR 65321) and posted it on a social media Web site created specifically to elicit responses on the report. VA collected comments through both venues. During the thirty day comment period, VA received twenty-five comments submitted through the Federal Register venue and over 450 comments from over 500 registered users through the social media...

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 18307, March 27, 2012
• Notices
• Veterans Affairs Department

• Workplace-Related Injuries and Illnesses in U.S. Decline

Workplace injuries and illnesses among private industry employers declined to a rate of 3.5 cases per 100 workers in 2010, according to recent statistics released by the U.S. Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics. The rate is down from 3.6 cases per 100 workers in 2009. A total of about 3.1 million injuries and illnesses were reported among private sector industry employers in 2010, down from 3.3 million reported in 2009.

• Lawyers USA
• October 31, 2011

• Contemporary issues of heat illnesses.

Introduction After working on a sports medicine team for the last two years, exertional heat illnesses (EHI) were brought to my attention. I never k...

• The Sport Journal
• Vol. 14 Nbr. 1, January 2011

• Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Related Illnesses On the Rise in Maine

The tiny deer ticks marching northward through Maine may be hard to spot, but the diseases they carry are hard to miss. Maine is recording increasing numbers of illnesses transmitted by the bite of the eight-legged deer tick, including two lesser-known germs following in Lyme disease's footsteps. Cases of anaplasmosis, which affects white blood cells, have spiked from nine in 2007 to 26 in 2011, according to state epidemiologist Dr. Stephen Sears. Already in 2012, 15 cases have been reported.

• Bangor Daily News
• May 30, 2012

• Workers From Heat-Related Illnesses

WASHINGTON, April 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today will announce, from Anaheim, Calif., a national outreach initiative by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration to educate workers and their employers about the hazards of working outdoors in the heat and steps needed to prevent heat-related illnesses. If you're working outdoors, you're at risk for heat-related illnesses that can cause serious medical problems and even death," said Secretary Solis. "But heat illness can be prevented. This Labor Department campaign will reach across the country with a very simple message - water, rest and shade.

• U.S. Newswire
• April 26, 2011

• Pittsburgh Montessori Prek-8 Cancels Classes Amid Illnesses

City school administrators canceled classes today at Pittsburgh Montessori PreK-8 so maintenance crews can clean the school in response to an unusually high number of student and staff illnesses. Officials with the Allegheny County Health Department determined the norovirus, commonly called stomach flu, likely caused the illnesses. The highly contagious virus causes symptoms such as diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain.

• Tribune - Review / Pittsburgh Tribune - Review
• October 28, 2011

• One Death, 76 Illnesses Linked to Ground Turkey

ONLINE: CDC info on salmonella in ground turkey: www.cdc.gov/ salmonella/heidelberg/080111/ index.html WASHINGTON - The government is scrambling to find the source of a salmonella outbreak likely linked to ground turkey that has killed one and sickened dozens more.

• Charleston Gazette
• August 03, 2011