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Health News 2000
JANUARY | 2000
- National Internet Employee Health Marketplace Opens
- OSHA’s Blunder on Home Work Rules Certain to Cause Controversy when Congress Reconvenes
- Department of Transportation Proposes New Rules for Drug Testing
- Humana to Sell Workers’ Compensation Business
- Supreme Court to Decide Whether ADA Applies to State Workers
- Consumer Reports Critical of Workers Compensation System
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FEBRUARY | 2000
- ACOEM Recommends NHANES III Predictive Equations for Occupational Medicine Spirometry
- JAMA Article Recommends Changes to Impairment Guides
- Web Companies May Prove to be Significant Force in Healthcare Market
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MARCH | 2000
- Supreme Court to Address Maternal Drug Testing and Physician Incentives
- The Nation’s Largest HMO, Aetna, Plagued by Falling Stock Price, Replaces CEO
- Supreme Court Drops ADA Dispute
- OSHA Formalizes Policy on Home–Based Work
- California Seizes Major Workers Compensation Insurer
- JAMA Article: Magnets May Not Relieve Low Back Pain
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APRIL | 2000
- First Charite III Artificial Disc Implant in US Performed
- Study Finds COX–2 Inhibitors Have Fewer Long–term Side Effects than Older NSAIDS; Third COX–2 Inhibitor is Released
- Secretary Richardson Announces Plan to Compensate Thousands of Sick Nuclear Workers
- Concentra, OH+R Continue Expansion; Web Companies Stocks Drop Sharply
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MAY | 2000
- New Study Finds Full–Time Splinting Superior to Night–time Splinting in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
- Businessman Sentenced to Prison in Worker Poisoning
- EPA Expected to Firmly Link Dioxin to Human Cancer
- Columbia/HCA Announces $745 Million Settlement with Justice Department; Changes Name
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JUNE | 2000
- EPA Bans Most Uses of Chlorpyrifos
- House of Representatives Votes to Block Ergonomic Standard, Again
- EPA Releases Draft Chapters of Dioxin Reassessment
- US Supreme Court Rules in Favor of HMOs in ERISA Case
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JULY | 2000
- Senate Approves Education, Health and Labor Funds which Block Ergonomic Standards
- HealthSouth’s Net Income off 43%; President/COO Resigns
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AUGUST | 2000
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SEPTEMBER | 2000
- IDSA Releases Evidence–Based Guidelines for Lyme Disease
- Study Finds Dissatisfaction with Support from Colleagues or Supervisors a Significant Factor in Repetitive Strain Injuries
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OCTOBER | 2000
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NOVEMBER | 2000
- New Study Supports Fibromyalgia as a Disorder of Pain Processing
- OSHA Formally Announces Ergonomic Standard
- Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act Signed into Law
- Occupational Physicians Withdraw Support for OSHA Ergonomic Standard
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DECEMBER | 2000
- EPA Takes Two Major Steps: Orders Phase–out of the Pesticide Diazinon and Clean–up of Hudson River Dioxin
- NIOSH Study: Back Belts Don’t Help Prevent Back Injury
- DOT Announces New Drug Testing Procedures
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