News tagged with poor health


Poor leadership poses a health risk at work

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Perceived poor managerial leadership increases not only the amount of sick leave taken at a workplace, but also the risk of sickness amongst employees later on in life. The longer a person has had a "poorer" manager, the ...





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Not a healthy state for all Latinos in the US

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Where Latinos are born and their immigration status affect the quality of health care they receive in the US, according to Professor Michael Rodríguez and colleagues from the UCLA Department of Family Medicine and ...


Barn personnel experience higher-than-average rates of respiratory symptoms

Medicine & Health / Health

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

The estimated 4.6 million Americans involved in the equine industry may be at risk of developing respiratory symptoms due to poor air quality in horse barns, according to a questionnaire study undertaken earlier this year ...


Consumer electronics can help improve patient health

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Electronic tools and technology applications for consumers can help improve health care processes, such as adherence to medication and clinical outcomes like smoking cessation, according to a report by researchers at the ...


Poor countries see troubling rise in breast cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(AP) -- Nurses were training women in rural Mexico to examine their breasts for cancer when one raised her hand to object. If she lost her breast, Harvard public health specialist Felicia Knaul recalls the woman saying, ...


UN: $39 billion needed for pneumonia

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created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- To fight pneumonia, the world's top killer of children, United Nations officials say they need $39 billion (euro26.35 billion) over the next six years.


Teens' mental health affects how long they stay in school, new study shows

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Queen's University researcher Steven Lehrer has won a prestigious international award in recognition of his contributions to health economics.


MRSA strain linked to high death rates

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 01, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A strain of MRSA that causes bloodstream infections is five times more lethal than other strains and has shown to have some resistance to the potent antibiotic drug vancomycin used to treat MRSA, according to a Henry Ford ...


Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

Over 2,200 veterans died in 2008 due to lack of health insurance

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A research team at Harvard Medical School estimates 2,266 U.S. military veterans under the age of 65 died last year because they lacked health insurance and thus had reduced access to care. That figure is ...


Research calls for better assessment of tests for tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and malaria

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created Nov 17, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A rapid and accurate diagnosis is the first step towards treatment in the fight against infectious disease. However, a team headed by Dr. Madhukar Pai at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) ...


Older patients with dementia at increased risk for flu mortality

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created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

An epidemiological study on pneumonia and influenza (P&I) in adults age 65 and over reports that patients with dementia are diagnosed with flu less frequently, have shorter hospital stays, and have a fifty percent higher ...



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