Health workers across the Western Cape and Eastern Cape are struggling with a surge in coronavirus patients as the country hurtles towards an expected disease peak in July."The numbers have been increasing daily - we don't have enough space" said a casualty nurse at Livingstone Hospital, one of the three Covid-designated facilities in Eastern Cape.She…
A boutique hotel project being built blocks from Google’s headquarters in Mountain View has been shut down since early June after 10 construction workers tested positive for coronavirus. The five-story Shashi Hotel project on the 1600 block of N. Shoreline Blvd. is the largest construction site in Santa Clara County to be shut down by…
the coronavirus pandemic have anticipated: The college-town tea shop where he worked was reopening, and it was time to go back.But Mr. Lyon, 23, and his co-workers in Fort Collins, Colo., who were temporarily laid off, worried about contracting the virus, so they asked the shop’s owners to delay reopening and meet with them to…
Almost a fifth of COPD among construction workers is due to on-the-job exposure to vapors, gases, dusts and fumes, according to a 2015 Duke University study published in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine. (Photo: Getty Creative)If you work in construction, you most likely worry about many on-the-job hazards, including injuries from efalls, hearing loss…
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Lear Corp is implementing costly safety measures that may hurt productivity at its operations in Mexico after suffering the deadliest known factory-related coronavirus outbreak in the Americas, but the U.S. auto parts maker still faces a battle to win back workers’ trust. The northern Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez…
Published: May 27, 2026, 6:54 pm JXK Enterprises Inc. is recalling Boner Bears Chocolate, Lot #BB21125, after being notified that FDA laboratory analysis confirmed the presence of sildenafil, an active ingredient in the FDA-approved prescription drug Viagra, which is not declared on the product label. Sildenafil is approved for use only under the supervision of
This is one of four products subject to the recall. The company did not provide photos of the other products, but label information is listed below. Published: May 26, 2026, 5:50 pm The FDA is warning consumers with milk, wheat, or tree nut allergies not to eat, and retailers not to serve or sell certain
An outbreak of Salmonella in Belgium traced to eggs has sickened more than 230 people. The Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) confirmed to Food Safety News that 236 people are ill in the Salmonella Enteritidis outbreak. Patients range in age from less than 1 to 96 years old. They fell