Since the pandemic’s outbreak, the global use of disinfectants has gone through the roof. Clorox dramatically boosted the production of its wipe packs to 1.5ma day by mid-2021, and an industry trade group said 83% of consumers surveyed around the same time reported they had used a wipe disinfectant in the last week.
But as schools reopened, a group of toxic chemical researchers grew concerned as they heard reports of kids regularly using disinfectant wipes on their classroom desks, or teachers running disinfectant foggers.
The researchers knew the disinfectants did little to protect consumers from Covid, and were instead exposing…
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Province restores blood-work referrals to eVisitNB service
New Brunswick Health Minister Bruce Fitch said he asked staff to review the new contract with the company that runs eVisitNB. (Radio-Canada)
New Brunswick Health Minister Bruce Fitch says referrals for blood work will again be available through the online health service eVisitNB after being dropped last month.
During the question period Thursday, Fitch said he asked staff to review why blood work was not offered anymore, and confirmed the service would be restored.
“When we see a problem, we see an issue, we’re ready to change it,” he said. “I’m pleased to announce that the service levels for eVisit…
UF Health Jacksonville names Patrick Green as new CEO
UF Health Jacksonville announced May 10 that Yale New Haven Health executive Patrick Green is its next CEO.
Green is vice president of Yale New Haven Health and president and CEO of Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, Connecticut. He began those positions in 2017.
“It’s an honor and privilege to be joining UF Health Jacksonville at such an exciting time for the organization,” Green said in a news release.
“There has never been a stronger commitment to ensuring a thriving UF Health Jacksonville.”
Green, 49, who will start July 10, replaces Russ Armistead, who returned as interim CEO…
Join letters call on province to address mental health crisis
Three teachers’ unions and a prominent youth advocacy group are urging the provincial government to bolster mental health literacy in the education curriculum and invest in additional school support workers.
In a joint letter issued to Education Minister Stephen Lecce on Monday, the groups also called on the government to include mental health or behavioral reasons as an excused absence under the Education Act. Currently, the act allows for “sickness or unavoidable causes,” but does not explicitly mention mental health.
The letter, signed by a total of nine organizations, comes amid a rising mental health crisis among Canadian youth and…
Morgan Medlock out as head of the Colorado Behavioral Health Administration
Colorado’s Behavioral Health Administration has a new interim commissioner less than a year after it was officially launched.
The administration opened shop in July under the Colorado Department of Human Services, and is meant to coordinate and improve the state’s mental health and addiction programs.
Its first commissioner, Dr. Morgan Medlock, was chief medical officer and director of crisis and emergency services for the Washington, DC, Department of Behavioral Health before being recruited to Colorado in January 2022.
Michelle Barnes, executive director of the Colorado Department of Human Services, will take over as interim head of the administration. While she’s…
Members of union representing health-care workers vote 99% in favor of strike mandate
Members of a union that represents about 7,000 rural paramedics and emergency dispatch, respiratory therapists, lab and diagnostic technologists, and other allied health professionals in Manitoba have voted overwhelmingly in favor of a strike mandate.
The Manitoba Association of Health Care Professionals, whose membership also includes social workers, pharmacists, physiotherapists and dietitians, among workers in many other professions, says its members voted 99 per cent in favor of adopting a strike mandate.
The union’s bargaining committee called for a strike vote in March, after more than a year of negotiating for a new collective agreement, according to a Friday news…