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Reason for sickness absence can predict employee deaths
Oct 03, 2008 |
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Employees who take long spells of sick leave more than once in three years are at a higher risk of death than their colleagues who take no such absence, particularly if their absence is due to circulatory or psychiatric problems ...
Study finds meal replacements aid weight loss
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Meal replacements in a medically supervised weight loss program are successful in facilitating weight loss, according to a new study conducted at the University of Kentucky. The study appears in the August 2009 issue of the ...
Still puzzling: Best care for the frail and elderly with coronary artery disease
Jul 19, 2008 |
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A new study from Duke University Medical Center finds that patients treated solely with medications after suffering from chest pain, heart attack or coronary artery disease are more likely to die during the first year following ...
Spontaneous and medically induced preterm births contribute equally to the rising rate of preterm births
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Research published this week in the open access journal PLoS Medicine shows that the rising rate of preterm birth in Scotland is as much a result of an increase in spontaneous preterm birth as it is of preterm birth that i ...
Does Treatment Affect Sickness Absence In Depressed Employees?
Jun 09, 2009 |
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Favourable short-term outcomes for psychotherapy interventions targeted on depressive patients have been shown, but few studies have examined long-term outcomes in working populations. A group of Finnish investigators used ...
More babies born prematurely but survival rates up, study shows
Sep 22, 2009 |
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Premature births have increased significantly although survival rates of babies born early have improved dramatically, a study shows.
New research targets West Nile virus and dengue fever
Dec 11, 2008 |
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Research conducted at The University of Queensland could contribute to the development of a vaccine and cure for West Nile virus and Dengue fever.
Online doctor ratings have their flaws
Mar 13, 2009 |
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I recently searched several doctor rating Web sites to see whether other people like my OB-GYN as much as I do.
Even mildly premature infants have increased risk of a common respiratory tract infection
May 05, 2009 |
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Even mildly premature infants (gestational ages of 33 weeks through 36 weeks) have an increased risk of medically attended respiratory syncytial virus infection, which is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract infection ...
C-sections a critical factor in preterm birth increase
May 28, 2008 |
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Cesarean sections account for nearly all of the increase in U.S. singleton preterm births, according to an analysis of nine years of national birth data.
Research looks at what’s best for babies
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 14, 2007 |
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Medically treating post-partum depression may not be enough to improve a mother's relationship with her baby, according to a new study done in part by the University of Alberta.
Patients with depression frequently suffer from medically unexplained pain
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Jul 16, 2009 |
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Pain symptoms that cannot be attributed, or at least not fully attributed, to an organic origin are more frequently and more severely experienced by patients with depression than by those without.
Hazards of CT scans overstated
Dec 01, 2007 |
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Concerns over possible radiation effects of CT scans detailed in a report yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine should not scare people away from getting medically needed CT scans, as the scans play a critical role i ...
Aetna links medical history to health info
Mar 13, 2008 |
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A U.S. health insurer is offering its customers an online service linking personal health data to online research of medical issues.
Illness, medical bills linked to nearly two-thirds of bankruptcies
Jun 04, 2009 |
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Medical problems contributed to nearly two-thirds (62.1 percent) of all bankruptcies in 2007, according to a study in the August issue of the American Journal of Medicine that will be published online Thursday. The data w ...
