On video + story: Shumlin names health care “dream team”; Kimbell to lead BISHCA
Shumlin said the four administration officials he has selected have the expertise to help make a single-payer system possible in Vermont.
McClaughry: Our nanny in chief targets obesity
The report says that from 1999 to 2007 the adult obesity rate doubled – but it doesn’t say from what to what. A referenced Health Department data sheet says adult obesity rose from 20 percent in 2003 to 22 percent in 2007. If that’s skyrocketing, so is Vermont’s economy.
No eggs have been recalled in Vermont
For Immediate Release: August 23, 2010 Contact: Kelly Loftus 802-828-3829 Statement from Vermont Agriculture Secretary Roger Allbee Regarding Nationwide Egg Recall Montpelier, Vt – “Ensuring a safe food supply is our top priority here at the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets. Accordingly, we protect consumers by maintaining aggressive food safety programs on both [...]
Water and soils tested for cobalt-60 and other radioactive materials at Vermont Yankee
A Note from Larry Smith at Vermont Yankee February 19, 2010 Vermont Yankee engineers and technicians continue their investigation into the source of tritium in the plant’s groundwater. Today’s inspection of the Advanced Off Gas concrete pipe tunnel using a boroscope revealed little change in conditions over the past week. Some water can still be [...]
Dept. of Health, VY: New excavation begins around off-gas building, water in pipe tunnel ‘id’ed’
A Note from Larry Smith at Vermont Yankee February 18, 2010 Vermont Yankee engineers and technicians continue their investigation into the source of tritium in the plant’s groundwater. Inspection has identified water in the Advanced Off Gas concrete pipe tunnel. The water has been removed and additional boroscopic inspections of the tunnel will be conducted [...]
Douglas presser on video, Part 2: Governor says tritium leak isn’t ‘imminent’ threat to public health
Douglas doesn’t know if state has the authority to shut down Yankee; he says lawmakers are allowing emotions to color the facts about the plant.
Irwin on video: We cannot rule out that there is tritium in the Connecticut River; we just cannot measure it
Irwin: Tritium readings of Connecticut River water have never exceeded 500 picocuries per liter, the lowest level at which it can be easily measured.
Rationing, lack of public clinics limits access for children under 5 to H1N1 vaccine
The youngest, most at-risk children, age 6 months to five years, must get vaccinations from private doctors who are typically backlogged with patient requests, or wait for immunizations at public clinics, even though the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that this age group receive inoculations first when vaccine is in short supply.
State confirms 45 cases of H1N1 in Vermont
Davis says many more cases likely, illness deemed “widespread” across the state Outbreak incidences mild, further vaccine delays will mean rescheduling some clinics List of schools offering vaccination clinics The state confirmed 45 cases of the flu virus strain H1N1 in Vermont for the week ending Oct. 17. At a press conference today, Dr. Wendy [...]
H1N1: Logistics 101
Some students will be bused to clinics; parents aren’t welcome to attend Health Department stretched thin, hires home health nurses, asks volunteers to administer shots What does it take to vaccinate tens of thousands of Vermont schoolchildren in four weeks? All hands on deck. Mass vaccinations for H1N1 flu virus are scheduled to begin Oct. [...]
