In Herold v. University of Pittsburgh,1 the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court affirmed a Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County decision, holding that: (1) common law claims for occupational diseases occurring four years after the employee’s last workplace exposure are not precluded under the Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act (ODA), and (2) […]

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Country: Ukraine Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies “They have lost loved ones, homes, jobs, everything – this is devastating enough. People’s lives are in limbo and this anguish is eating them up, compounding the mental health crisis even further.”

What You Need To Know In A Minute Or Less Based largely on publicly available data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), plaintiffs have been filing an increasing number of personal-injury and class-action claims related to alleged exposures to ethylene oxide (EO). These claims often relate to alleged cancers […]

Egypt celebrated National Wheat Day with a first-ever conference co-sponsored by IFPRI. Egypt Today reported that the “Minister of Higher Education emphasized the role of IFPRI and CGIAR in providing global scientific and technological support” in partnership with educational and research institutions, as well as universities.