Sunday, November 25, 2012
County supervisor ponders whether county employees who smoke can be made to take classes to stop smoking, according to news report.
Mount Vernon District Supervisor Gerry Hyland is suggesting that the county make it mandatory that employees who smoke take classes to stop smoking, and on Saturday, a county spokeswoman told the Associated Press that the county's attorneys are looking into the idea. Hyland made the suggestion at a recent county Board of Supervisors meeting, the Washington Post reported. Hyland's father, who was a smoker, died at age 50 of lung cancer, the AP report said. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has estimated that the cost of smoking (estimated cost of smoking-related medical expenses and loss of productivity) exceeds $167 billion annually. A Harvard Business Review blog recently pushed the idea that cigarettes should cost $25 …
Thursday, April 5, 2012
April is Autism Awareness/Acceptance Month.
Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released harrowing news pertaining to the accelerating rates of autism in our country—about 1 in 88 children (and five times more boys than girls) has autism. And the prevalence of the condition has risen nearly 80 percent over the past decade. The CDC study collected data from 14 states, including Maryland. The survey found vast unexplained disparities between various states and among different ethnic groups and sexes. For example, the prevalence of autism in Hispanic children is two-thirds that of white children, but it is rising faster in this group and amongst African-Americans than in Caucasians. Some argue that the discrepancies are a result of better identification of…
Sunday, May 22, 2011
CDC grabs attention with tongue-in-cheek blog post
Hurricane season gets here on June 1st and lasts through early fall. Think Northern Virginia doesn't need to worry? Hurricane Isabel proved to be the costliest disaster at nearly $2 billion, that ever hit the state. Thirty-six people died (10 directly, 26 indirectly) and it left 1.8 million without power. Some 10,000 sandbags were distributed in Alexandria. Hurricane Isabel caused $18 million in damage to Fairfax County and $2 million in damage in Alexandria. Fairfax County will be online Tuesday answering your hurricane preparation questions: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news/askfairfax/ The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released its predictions last Thursday for this season, and the conditions expected this year have …
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