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Reason for sickness absence can predict employee deaths

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 03, 2008 | popularity 3.6 / 5 (12) | comments 2

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 ...





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Supply of board-certified emergency physicians unlikely to meet projected needs

Medicine & Health / Other

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The number of physicians with board certification in emergency medicine is unlikely to meet the staffing needs of U.S. emergency departments in the foreseeable future, if ever; according to a study from a research team based ...


Study finds meal replacements aid weight loss

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...


Newly improved reference material targets infant formula analysis

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Aug 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Chemists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have issued a new certified reference material—a standardized sample backed by NIST—for determining the concentrations of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients ...


Spontaneous and medically induced preterm births contribute equally to the rising rate of preterm births

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created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...


New Reference Material Can Improve Testing of Multivitamin Tablets

New reference material can improve testing of multivitamin tablets

Medicine & Health / Other

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a new certified reference material that can be an important quality assurance tool for measuring the amounts of vitamins, carotenoids, and trace ...


Does Treatment Affect Sickness Absence In Depressed Employees?

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created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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

Medicine & Health / Health

created Sep 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 11, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

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

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 05, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

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 ...



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