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Going to Work When Sick May Lead to Future Absences
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Employees who often go to work despite feeling sick have higher rates of future work absences due to illness, according to a study in the June Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, official publication of the ...
Does Treatment Affect Sickness Absence In Depressed Employees?
Jun 09, 2009 |
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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 ...
Repeatedly working when ill boosts risk of long term sick leave
Apr 30, 2009 |
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Repeatedly going to work when ill significantly boosts the chances of having to take long term sick leave later on, reveals research published ahead of print in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Reason for sickness absence can predict employee deaths
Oct 03, 2008 |
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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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Flexible workplaces reduce rate of sickness absence
May 29, 2007 |
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People with fun and stimulating jobs, and who are able to adapt their workplace to their needs, have a lower rate of sickness absence and more often go to work despite being ill. This also applies to workplaces with heavy ...
Weak social ties at workplace increase risk of burn-out
Apr 09, 2009 |
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Long-term leaves of absence tied to stress-related diagnoses are often preceded by a long period without any secure and comforting social relations. This is shown in a recently published study in public health science at ...
More sick leave given to men by male GPs compared with female counterparts
Sep 12, 2007 |
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Male patients are given more certified sick leave by male doctors compared with the amount of sick notes given to females by female doctors, a University of Liverpool study has revealed.
NASA Portable Hyperbaric Chamber Technology Finds Home on Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA has signed a patent license agreement with a California company to improve the medical community's access to hyperbaric chambers used to treat many medical conditions and emergencies.
Climate change fears for deadly virus outbreaks in livestock
Mar 31, 2009 |
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Global warming could have chilling consequences for European livestock, warned Professor Peter Mertens from the Institute for Animal Health, at this week's meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Harrogate.
Smokers clock up almost 8 additional days of sick leave every year
Mar 29, 2007 |
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Smokers take an average of almost eight days more of sick leave every year than their non-smoking colleagues, suggested research published in Tobacco Control.
Workplace flexibility associated with reduced absences and improved job commitment
Apr 25, 2008 |
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Workers who reported increased work flexibility from one year to the next also had fewer absences for illness and improved job commitment, according to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine. In addition, ...
FDA requires faster food safety reporting
Sep 08, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Food makers will be required to alert government officials of potentially contaminated products within 24 hours under a new rule designed to help federal regulators spot food safety issues sooner.
Genes may explain why children who live without dads have earlier sex
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Sep 15, 2009 |
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Previous research has found that children raised in homes without a biological father have sex earlier than children raised in traditional nuclear families. Now a new study that used a novel and complex design to investigate ...
MicroRNAs appear essential for retinal health
May 07, 2008 |
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Retinas in newborn mice appear perfectly fine without any help from tiny bits of genetic material called microRNAs except for one thing — the retinas do not work.
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