News tagged with health workers
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Disinfecting robots help prevent superbug infections at Hopkins
Even as epidemiologists worry about a shrinking arsenal of antibiotics to fight potentially deadly drug-resistant bacteria, researchers at Johns Hopkins Hospital are betting on another weapon to prevent infections: robots.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 04, 2013 |
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Pakistan resumes polio vaccines under tight security
Pakistan is providing paramilitary and police support to polio vaccinations being resumed discreetly in the northwest after a series of attacks on medical workers, officials said Friday.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Jan 04, 2013 |
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School shootings: What we know and what we can do
Since the early 1970s school shootings at American elementary, secondary and higher education institutions have been a painful reality for American society. After each incident – like the recent attack in Newtown, CT – ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 19, 2012 |
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9/11 cancer study won't settle debate over risks
The most comprehensive study of potential World Trade Center-related cancers raises more questions than it answers and won't end a debate over whether the attacks were really a cause. ...
Cancer
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Research into bleeding prevention post-birth could save lives
Research brings together evidence about the potential for misoprostol to prevent bleeding after home births in low resource countries.
Obstetrics & gynaecology
Dec 18, 2012 |
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Cancer costs billions yearly in U.S. worker productivity, study finds
(HealthDay)—The cost of lost productivity among U.S. workers with cancer is equal to 20 percent of the nation's health care spending, according to a new study.
Cancer
Dec 17, 2012 |
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Thousands in Spain protest health privatization
(AP)—Several thousand Spanish public health workers and other people marched from four main hospitals in Madrid to converge on a main square in the capital Sunday, protesting the regional government's plans ...
Health
Dec 17, 2012 |
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New policy brief examines impact of occupational injuries and illnesses among low-wage workers
Low-wage workers, who make up a large and growing share of the U.S. workforce, are especially vulnerable to financial hits that can result from on-the-job injuries and illnesses, according to a policy brief released today ...
Health
Dec 13, 2012 |
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Thousands protest Spain's health care austerity
(AP)—Thousands of Spanish medical workers and residents angered by budget cuts and plans to partly privatize the cherished national health service marched through some of Madrid's most famous squares on ...
Health
Dec 09, 2012 |
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Darfur's yellow fever shows 'no sign of stopping'
A rare outbreak of mosquito-borne yellow fever which has killed 165 people in Sudan's Darfur region in the past three months continues to spread, the UN warned on Thursday.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 06, 2012 |
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Increasing number of workers in self-insured health plans
(HealthDay)—There has been a recent increase in the percentage of workers in the private sector who are enrolled in self-insured health plans, in which the employer assumes the financial risk related to ...
Health
Dec 04, 2012 |
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The technology of battling TB
Giri Prasad, a 33-year-old tailor who lives in Delhi, first noticed the pain below his ribs. He went to see a doctor, but when it didn't subside, he traveled to the hospital where he eventually learned he ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Dec 04, 2012 |
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Genome mapping may stop superbug deaths
Genome mapping could prove key in preventing superbugs in hospitals, an Australian researcher said Friday, urging its use to prevent countless deaths from antibiotic-resistant infections.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 30, 2012 |
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Ukraine fights spreading HIV epidemic
(AP)—Andrei Mandrykin, an inmate at Prison No. 85 outside Kiev, has HIV. He looks ghostly and much older than his 35 years. But Mandrykin is better off than tens of thousands of his countrymen, because ...
HIV & AIDS
Nov 30, 2012 |
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Yellow fever shots begin in Sudan's Darfur
Health workers in Sudan's Darfur region have begun vaccinating more than two million people against a rare yellow fever outbreak suspected of killing 124 since late September, medics said on Thursday.
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Nov 22, 2012 |
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