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How Do We Avoid Another EHR Mishap? Part One

By: Claire Hutkins Seda

EDIT: MCN is saddened to hear Thomas Duncan has passed away. We offer our condolences to his family and friends.On September 25, Thomas Eric Duncan went to Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in…

Watermelon Farmer

Thank You for Supporting a Strengthened Worker Protection Standard

By: KerryBrennan

With your help, MCN added more than 17,000 voices to the call for stronger workplace protections for our nation's farmworkers.On Monday August 18, MCN submitted our Clinician Sign-On Letter, which…

PHOTO-Danger Pesticides

Protect Children in the Fields- Raise the Minimum Age Requirement for Handling Pesticides

By: MaryEMiller

The proposed revisions to the Worker Protection Standard have many positive elements and I, along and many others concerned about farm worker health applaud the EPA for this long-awaited proposal. In…

PHOTO- Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies

Congress Will See Life Through the Eyes of Farmworkers with Seth Holmes' "Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies"

By: KerryBrennan

Last week, President Obama and every member of Congress received a copy of Seth Holmes’ Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies. For nearly two years, physician and anthropologist Seth Holmes lived and worked as…

Woman and Clinician

New ACOG Resource Calls for Clinician Responsibility in Preventing Environmental/Occupational Health Risks for Women

By: Candace Kugel

The Migrant Clinicians Network (MCN) is pleased to receive support of our mission to be a force for health justice for the mobile poor from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (…

Watermelon Toss

EPA's New Pesticide Resource Includes Expanded Content, Features MCN

Your patient reports stomach pain, nausea and headache. It’s nearing the heart of flu season - these are possible flu symptoms, you think. On examination, the patient doesn’t present with a fever. “…

Ed Zuroweste and a medical student examine a patient

BRIEFING: A Clinician's Call for Safer Farmworkers and Families

By: Brenda Ramirez

Today and tomorrow on Capitol Hill, more than a dozen farmworkers from across the nation are meeting with their members of Congress to call for the implementation of stronger protections for…

SoCal COSH - Dia Del Trabajador

MCN Honors Workers on International Workers' Memorial Day, Children in Agriculture Have Unequal Protections

On the heels of International Worker Memorial Day, the day slated to honor the ultimate sacrifice of workers and families throughout the world, the Obama administration released a statement saying…

Cholinesterase Monitoring Algorithm Preview

MCN and Partners Develop Comprehensive Clinical Tool

As part of our series of continuing education webinars, MCN partnered with the National Farm Medicine Center and Agrisafe Network in March to present the Nuts & Bolts of Cholinesterase…

Poisonings a Leading Cause of Death, Poison Prevention Week Celebrates 50

During the month of March, MCN is taking the opportunity to share with you a series of blog posts about poisonings and poison prevention. This week marks the 50th Anniversary of National Poison…

Family Violence group

Stories From the Field

By: Migrant Clinicians Network

One of my colleagues at MCN has recently reminded us of the need to tell the stories of the people that we encounter and the work that we do. So often we put our nose to the grindstone and don’t look…

PHOTO: Farmworkers working in blueberries.

Agricultural Health and Safety: Incorporating the Worker Perspective

By: Caitlin A. Fish J.D.

Excerpt of this article taken from: Liebman, Amy K. andAugustave, Wilson 'Agricultural Health and Safety: Incorporating the Worker Perspective', Journal of Agromedicine, 15:3, 192 - 199“We are…

pigs in cage

Don’t Snort Pig Brains

By: Brenda Ramirez

I have been following this story in The Washington Post and The NYT. I feel that I have to share it with you all. There are now at least 13 pork processing workers being diagnosed with a new…

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