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CDC advice for those with flulike symptoms
May 01, 2009 |
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is offering advice to people wondering what to do if a family member takes ill with flulike symptoms. Some of the more important points:
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Sick? Stay home!
Jul 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The deadline is looming, rumors of layoffs are swarming and you get the flu. Think the heroic thing to do is to go in and “work through the pain?” Wrong! According to Dr. Mary Capelli-Schellpfeffer, medical ...
Experts: Flu victims should miss work despite lean staffs, lost pay
Sep 23, 2009 |
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It's common sense: Stay home from work if you have the H1N1 flu virus. But the reality of making that happen is daunting for already-lean businesses in Minnesota as they grapple with just how flexible they can be with sick ...
Swine flu rises at US colleges as students return
Aug 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Georgia Tech freshman Elise Woodall was met with a message scrawled on the bathroom mirror of her dorm when she moved in two weeks ago: "Wash your hands. Swine is not fine."
Poor leadership poses a health risk at work
Nov 02, 2009 |
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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 ...
Tips for avoiding, treating swine flu
May 01, 2009 |
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Swine flu has surfaced in the United States, and people are bound to have many questions as the illness arrives a step closer to home. Dr. Mark Dworkin, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Illinois ...
Stanford Hospital does nation’s first drive-through pandemic exercise
Jun 13, 2009 |
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A couple of months ago, during the swine flu scare, Stanford Hospital & Clinics had a preview of what a real pandemic might look like: Hundreds of people, fearing they might be sick with the H1N1 virus, showed ...
Taking on Britain's 'sick note culture'
May 14, 2008 |
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GPs should lend a hand to beat the ‘sick note culture’ that sees millions of working days lost every year, according to a survey of smaller business owners.
Japan explores using cell phones to stop pandemics
Jun 07, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A few months from now, a highly contagious disease will spread through a Japanese elementary school. The epidemic will start with several unwitting children, who will infect others as they attend ...
Psychiatry research: When the mirror becomes an enemy
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 08, 2008 |
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A nose that's too big, hair that's too curly or a beauty mark in the wrong place – who hasn't focused on a small detail of their appearance while staring at a mirror?
Questions and answers on swine flu
Apr 29, 2009 |
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As the number of swine flu cases grows, so do the questions about how the virus is transmitted and what people can do to prevent it. Here are answers from interviews with doctors and from public-health Web sites.
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