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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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New technology helps scientists understand ancient fossils

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created 12 hours ago | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Some of the world's oldest human bones and other ancient relics are studied here using some of the world's newest technologies.


Tahoe faces new development battle: green vs. green

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

As snow begins to blanket Lake Tahoe, the region finds itself facing a new kind of development battle: green vs. green.


WHO approves Glaxo's swine flu shot

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline says one of its swine flu vaccines has been certified by the World Health Organization, making it available for donors to buy for developing countries.


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Plasma produces KO cocktail for MRSA

Physics / General Physics

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 3

MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus) and other drug-resistant bacteria could face annihilation as low-temperature plasma prototype devices have been developed to offer safe, quick, easy and un ...


Formerly conjoined twins to need years of care (AP)

Formerly conjoined twins to need years of care

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Formerly conjoined Bangladeshi twins separated this week in a marathon surgery will remain in the care of a humanitarian group for at least two years, the organization's CEO said Friday.


A Tiny Cage of Gold Responds to Light, Opening to Empty Its Contents

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Washington University in St. Louis have developed a polymer-coated gold nanocage that not only opens in response to light to release a small amount of a drug payload, but then closes when the ...


1 conjoined twin talking after separation surgery (AP)

1 conjoined twin talking after separation surgery

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- A Bangladeshi toddler separated this week from her conjoined twin sister was talking and behaving normally Thursday after waking from a medically induced coma, the head of the surgery team said.


Going high-tech to track Alzheimer's patients

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- Tom Dougherty jokes that he takes "get-lost walks." To his wife, Cleo, it's a constant fear: When will his Alzheimer's get bad enough that she has to end his 4-mile daily strolls?


Feds ignored Medicare scam warnings for years

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- For three years, the federal agency in charge of preventing Medicare fraud repeatedly ignored internal watchdog warnings about swindlers stealing millions of dollars by scamming several programs, documents show.


Back pain permanently sidelines soldiers at war

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Military personnel evacuated out of Iraq and Afghanistan because of back pain are unlikely to return to the line of duty regardless of the treatment they receive, according to research led by a Johns Hopkins pain management ...



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