TONIGHT! @PhiladelphiaGov officials will be on-hand at the Kirkbride Center at 111 N. 49th Street to talk about the #PHLopioids crisis, and what we're doing to combat it. Please join us and the discussion! pic.twitter.com/uCWtyUWGWo
— Philadelphia Department of Public Health (@PHLPublicHealth) April 26, 2018
Opioids Meeting Postponed
May 2018 Heat Warning
Upcoming Community Meeting on the Opioids Crisis
National Laboratory Workers Week
Did you also know that the Philadelphia Public Health Laboratory performs over 300,000 tests per year? Did you even know that the Health Department has a lab?!
The tests our laboratory professionals do include everything from general health screenings, diabetes testing, sexually transmitted disease testing, and general microbiology testing. In addition, testing is also performed on samples collected from any disease outbreaks that we investigate.
https://beta.phila.gov/2018-04-26-national-laboratory-professionals-week/
Community Meeting Postponed
Southwest Airlines Flight Death
Philadelphia’s medical examiner says that a woman killed when she was partially blown out of a Southwest Airlines plane died of blunt impact trauma to her head, neck and torso.
Spokesman James Garrow of the Philadelphia Department of Public Health said Wednesday evening that Jennifer Riordan’s death was ruled accidental.
https://apnews.com/5dc6f818204c4c299eef8764e826e0ba
By Associated Press
H.R. McMaster, Sr Death
The elder McMaster died Friday of “blunt impact head trauma,” according to James Garrow, spokesman for the Philadelphia Medical Examiner’s Office.
By Harold Brubaker
Lead in City Hall
James Garrow, the city’s director of Digital Public Health, noted the Lead and Healthy Homes Program “is actually driven by the presence of children, not the simply the presence of lead in the environment.”
In other words, our unscientific findings at City Hall don’t exactly mesh with the focus of that effort as it “does not focus on work environments.”
By Brian Hickey
The Collected Works of Jim Garrow 