TO TREAT OR CURE THEM YOU MUST KEEP THEM SAFE
TO TREAT OR CURE THEM YOU MUST KEEP THEM SAFE
We are updating this post, originally published in 2009, to underscore the need to replace Cesium irradiation devices to prevent easy access to material to make a Dirty Bomb, described by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission as: "A "dirty bomb" is one type of a...
This post was originally published in 2014 and given the outrageous bombing of the Gaza Hospital yesterday that reportedly killed over 500 people, we feel it is relevant to post thoughts on previous International terrorist attacks on hospitals with links to extremist...
Originally posted to LinkedIn in April, this update reflects the large increase in Tuberculosis we predicted at the time: One hundred ten thousand immigrants have arrived in New York City over the last two years, placing a large burden on the city's housing, public...
The CFATS Program was enacted to keep critical chemical industry infrastructure targets safe from terrorist attacks. According to CISA: “In 2006, Congress authorized the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to establish the Chemical Facility...
Steven Brill’s article in the September Atlantic Monthly “IS AMERICA ANY SAFER? Part V sent me back to my filing cabinet. Coverage of the Dirty Bomb took me back twenty-eight years to President Reagan’s 1988...
Labor Day will be behind us and it is back to school for many. There may be signs that the summer heat will be gone soon. We should have a better idea about who will win the respective primaries. We may know more about climate change and what will we do if ISSL...
Just as we felt the Ebola Outbreak was well behind, we were reminded through two stories today: In the first, WHO reported the milestone of 10,000 dead from the outbreak and as seen in thr video below, USA Today announced a new case of Ebola in the United...
In another example the lack of awareness and attention paid to All Hazards threats in the Healthcare industry, the 2015 Environmental Scan published by the American Hospital Association (AHA), in Hospitals and Health Networks Magazine, and Trustees Magazine, targeted...
It was bound to happen: After a few US Ebola cases, there would be calls for quarantine, something we warned of in our Aug. 19 post. A nurse returning from treating Ebola patients in West Africa has been been quarantined on return to the US this Friday, although she...
As we look at the obvious lack of preparedness for this recent outbreak of Ebola and subsequent spread to healthcare workers in the US, we looked back at our coverage on this issue from April this year, and July, and the inevitable spread to the US and...
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