http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (AP) -- About half of Hong Kong's health workers would refuse the swine flu vaccine, new research says, a trend that experts say would likely apply worldwide. In a study that polled 2,255 Hong Kong health workers this year, researchers found even during the height of global swine flu panic in May, less than half were willing to get vaccinated. http://www.physorg.com/news170449722.html Medicine & Health Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:30:01 EST news170449722 Hiring the nearly 800,000 workers needed to eliminate the staggering shortage of health care professionals in sub-Saharan Africa by 2015 will cost $2.6 billion a year, or 2.5 times the annual funds currently allocated for health worker wages in the region, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and collaborators from the World Health Organization (WHO) and The World Bank. http://www.physorg.com/news168786249.html Medicine & Health Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:20:01 EST news168786249 (PhysOrg.com) -- New research at Newcastle University shows that it's not enough to be noble and do a courageous act to be considered a hero. Studying the reactions of the public to five tales of heroism, researchers at Newcastle University found that off-duty emergency service workers were judged more harshly than their civilian counterparts. http://www.physorg.com/news168188587.html Other Sciences Thu, 30 Jul 2009 16:20:01 EST news168188587 In light of health care reform measures, Rush University Medical Center has launched a study of its program to help older adults transition from hospital to home. http://www.physorg.com/news167990847.html Medicine & Health Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:10:02 EST news167990847 Approximately 1 in 6 public health workers said they would not report to work during a pandemic flu emergency regardless of its severity, according to a survey led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. The findings are a significant improvement over a 2005 study conducted by the same research team, in which more than 40 percent of public health employees said they were unlikely to report to work during a pandemic emergency. The new study suggests ways for improving the response of the public health workforce. The results are published in the July 24 edition of the journal PLoS ONE. http://www.physorg.com/news167650689.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:38:33 EST news167650689 Should the financial ties between doctors and drug companies be completely cut, or are healthy alliances between the two possible with the common aim of improving human health? A debate in this week's PLoS Medicine discusses whether the influence of drug company money on doctors is always a corrupting one. http://www.physorg.com/news167376230.html Medicine & Health Tue, 21 Jul 2009 06:24:18 EST news167376230 A national public health campaign in France was associated with a marked reduction of unnecessary antibiotic prescriptions, particularly in children, says new research published in this week's open-access journal PLoS Medicine. The campaign, "Antibiotiques c'est pas automatique" (Antibiotics are not automatic), ran from 2002 to 2007 during the winter months when viral respiratory infections mainly occur. The campaign included an educational campaign for healthcare workers, the promotion of rapid tests for diagnosis of streptococcal infections, and a public information campaign about viral respiratory infections and about antibiotic resistance. http://www.physorg.com/news163143366.html Medicine & Health Tue, 02 Jun 2009 06:36:28 EST news163143366 The Centre for Epidemiological Studies into Sexually-Transmitted Diseases and AIDS in Catalonia (CEEISCAT) started a pioneering study in Spain in 2005 to look into the prevalence of sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) among female sex workers (SWs). The objective was to monitor the rates of infection with both HIV and other diseases over time, as well as the prevalence of risky behaviour. http://www.physorg.com/news162730806.html Medicine & Health Thu, 28 May 2009 12:00:27 EST news162730806 She never gets invited to lunch with the rest of her co-workers. He always gets publicly criticized for his mistakes. http://www.physorg.com/news161519402.html Other Sciences Thu, 14 May 2009 11:30:38 EST news161519402 A survey of health care workers has revealed that as many as 85% may stay off work if an influenza pandemic did take hold of the country. The results of the survey, published in the open access journal BMC Public Health, suggest that levels of absenteeism may be significantly higher than current official estimates and that 'willingness', rather than 'ability', plays the largest role in health care workers' decisions as to whether to go to work or not. http://www.physorg.com/news161516852.html Medicine & Health Thu, 14 May 2009 10:47:58 EST news161516852 When state police Sgt. Stephen Jones wanted to track down a car involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident in Hackensack, he decided a Twitter update -- or a "tweet" -- would be the fastest way to reach the public. http://www.physorg.com/news160906949.html Technology Thu, 07 May 2009 09:23:41 EST news160906949 Researchers have raised serious concerns about the lack of guidance and training provided for nurses involved in assessing the parenting capacity of mothers with serious mental illnesses. http://www.physorg.com/news160822579.html Medicine & Health Wed, 06 May 2009 09:57:56 EST news160822579 A recent study in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management shows that as a result of a variety of interior enforcement initiatives implemented in 2002-2005, such as the ramping up of the Social Security no-match program, employers' demand for undocumented workers fell. This led to an erosion of the wages and employment opportunities of recent low-education male immigrants from Latin America with potentially negative implications for U.S. taxpayers. http://www.physorg.com/news160223910.html Other Sciences Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:38:49 EST news160223910 (AP) -- Mexico canceled school nationwide Monday and warned the death toll from a swine flu epidemic believed to have killed 149 people would keep rising before it can be contained. Health Secretary Jose Angel Cordova said 20 of the deaths have been confirmed to be from swine flu and the government was awaiting results on the others. http://www.physorg.com/news160070739.html Medicine & Health Mon, 27 Apr 2009 17:06:27 EST news160070739 (AP) -- Toshiba Corp., Japan's top chipmaker, Friday said its net loss for the last fiscal year will be bigger than forecast due to a large write-off, and warned that more contract jobs will be cut. http://www.physorg.com/news159175692.html Technology Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:28:36 EST news159175692 (AP) -- Microsoft Corp. announced Monday it would be giving away more than 30,000 vouchers over the next 90 days to help unemployed people in Washington state get new computer skills. http://www.physorg.com/news158907656.html Technology Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:04:00 EST news158907656 (AP) -- AT&T and its largest union are continuing negotiations after contracts covering tens of thousands of workers expired this weekend. http://www.physorg.com/news158245952.html Technology Mon, 06 Apr 2009 14:12:56 EST news158245952 (AP) -- AT&T and unions for its landline workers were working past a strike deadline early Sunday to try to reach agreement on a new contract. http://www.physorg.com/news158073294.html Technology Sat, 04 Apr 2009 14:15:30 EST news158073294 (AP) -- Negotiators for AT&T Inc. and union officials representing 112,500 employees said Friday they expect to bargain into the weekend on five labor contracts that expire Saturday night. http://www.physorg.com/news157978426.html Technology Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:54:01 EST news157978426 Compassion fatigue in nurses, doctors and other front line cancer-care providers significantly impacts how they interact with patients, with patient families, with other healthcare workers, and with their own family, according to analysis by Indiana University School of Medicine and Regenstrief Institute researchers published in the March issue of the Journal of Health Psychology. http://www.physorg.com/news157808604.html Medicine & Health Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:44:21 EST news157808604 The circadian clocks that set the rhythmic motion of our bodies for wakeful days and sleepy nights can also set us up for vascular disease when broken, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. http://www.physorg.com/news157210291.html Medicine & Health Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:31:57 EST news157210291 (AP) -- Union workers at AT&T are giving their leaders the authority to call a strike as part of negotiations for a new contract covering 112,500 employees. http://www.physorg.com/news157052662.html Technology Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:44:46 EST news157052662 As a teenager in the juvenile justice system, living in a single-parent household or having a family with criminal history doesn't help your case -- at least if you're a minority. http://www.physorg.com/news156076729.html Other Sciences Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:39:31 EST news156076729 (AP) -- Dell Inc., the world's second-largest computer maker, said Wednesday it is laying off workers around the world but would not say how many or where. http://www.physorg.com/news156001267.html Technology Wed, 11 Mar 2009 19:25:08 EST news156001267 It's widely known Microsoft has a large contingent work force in addition to its 96,000 direct, regular employees worldwide. But the company has never publicly quantified these people, who typically work through third-party firms and do everything from mow the lawns to write software. http://www.physorg.com/news155407095.html Technology Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:38:50 EST news155407095 (PhysOrg.com) -- Harvard researchers from Brigham and Women`s Hospital (BWH) and colleagues have identified the potential cause of the increased risk for cardiovascular and metabolic disease in shift workers. http://www.physorg.com/news155316624.html Medicine & Health Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:31:32 EST news155316624 More than a year after developing a unique neurological disorder, the affected pork processing plant workers have improved, but all have some continuing symptoms and many have ongoing mild pain, according to a study released today that will be presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 61st Annual Meeting in Seattle, April 25 to May 2, 2009. http://www.physorg.com/news154721268.html Medicine & Health Tue, 24 Feb 2009 18:08:32 EST news154721268 The recent salmonella outbreak linked to 575 illnesses and eight deaths across 43 states was shown to come from a dirty peanut processing plant in Georgia. And while it is essential for food processing plants to be clean and sanitary, Temple public health professor Jennifer Ibrahim, Ph.D., says officials need to consider other possible sources of illness. http://www.physorg.com/news154341910.html Medicine & Health Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:45:51 EST news154341910 For patients who have drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis, it's critical to monitor the disease as closely as possible. That means monthly testing throughout a two-year course of powerful antibiotics, with injections six days a week for the first six months. http://www.physorg.com/news153577647.html Medicine & Health Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:28:02 EST news153577647 The health of bar workers, who actively smoke cigarettes, significantly improves after the introduction of a smoking ban, reveals research published ahead of print in Occupational and Environmental Medicine. http://www.physorg.com/news153514238.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Feb 2009 18:50:57 EST news153514238