News tagged with job strain
Job strain and overtime predict heart disease and mortality
A study presented today at the ESC Congress 2011 by Finnish researchers, showed that high job demands coupled with low job control to meet these demands, refer to a "high strain job" – a situation which is a risk for ...
Medicine & Health / Cardiology
Aug 29, 2011 |
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Women with high job strain have 40 percent increased risk of heart disease
Women who report having high job strain have a 40 percent increased risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attacks and the need for procedures to open blocked arteries, compared to those with low job strain, according ...
Nov 14, 2010 |
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Job strain associated with stroke in Japanese men
Japanese men in high-stress jobs appear to have an increased risk of stroke compared with those in less demanding positions, according to a report in the January 12 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine.
Jan 12, 2009 |
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Maryland Commission recommends 'common sense' immigration policy
Immigrants to Maryland contribute significantly to the state's economy, and were vital to its workforce expansion in both technical and less-skilled occupations from 2000 to 2010, concludes a new report by a Maryland commission. ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Feb 09, 2012 |
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The best medicine for productivity
A worker experiencing the stress of intense workdays might develop somatic symptoms, such as stomach ache or headache, which will eventually lead to taking leave of absence. But when the individual's supervisor offers emotional ...
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Feb 06, 2012 |
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Study: Lungs infected with plague bacteria also become playgrounds for other microbes
Among medical mysteries baffling many infectious disease experts is exactly how the deadly pneumonic plague bacterium, Yersinia pestis, goes undetected in the first few day of lung infection, often until ...
Jan 30, 2012 |
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Technology, costs, lack of appeal slow e-textbook adoption
Textbooks are often a luxury for college senior Vatell Martin. The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors' lectures. "It's not that I didn't want to buy," ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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India reports new TB strain resistant to all drugs
Indian doctors have reported the country's first cases of "totally drug-resistant tuberculosis," a long-feared and virtually untreatable form of the killer lung disease.
Jan 16, 2012 |
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Panel urges lower cutoff for child lead poisoning
(AP) -- For the first time in 20 years, a federal panel is urging the government to lower the threshold for lead poisoning in children.
Jan 04, 2012 |
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Our jobs are making us sick
(Medical Xpress) -- New research at ANU has revealed that poor work conditions can adversely affect people’s health.
Dec 12, 2011 |
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Researcher takes on 'empathy fatigue' in workplace
(Medical Xpress) -- A nurse refuses to help an ailing alcoholic who is upset to find a hospital detox unit closed. A hospital clerk brushes off a deceased woman's grieving family as they try to pay her bills ...
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Research: Bedbugs can thrive despite inbreeding
Bedbugs aren't just sleeping with you. They're sleeping with each other. Researchers now say that the creepy bugs have a special genetic gift: withstanding incest.
Dec 07, 2011 |
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Novel drug wipes out deadliest malaria parasite through starvation
An antimalarial agent developed by researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University proved effective at clearing infections caused by the malaria parasite most lethal to humans – by literally ...
Dec 07, 2011 |
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