News tagged with medical workers
Researcher challenges myth of elderly independence
(Medical Xpress) -- Forty percent of San Franciscans over the age of 75 live alone and nearly one third of them live in poverty. "Luke," age 76, is one of them, living in an single-room-occupancy (SRO) hotel ...
Health
Jun 15, 2011 |
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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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Can exercise help you live longer and better?
The red double-decker buses that are symbolic of the city of London have an altogether different significance if you study heart disease. Sixty years ago, these iconic buses helped a Scottish medical doctor ...
Health
May 15, 2013 |
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Workplace mental health disability leave recurs sooner than physical health leave, study shows
The recurrence of an employee's medical leave of absence from work tends to happen much sooner with a mental health leave than a physical one, a Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) study shows.
Health
Jun 29, 2011 |
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Venezuelans line up to switch PIP breast implants
(AP) -- The office of plastic surgeon Ignacio Sousa is so packed that women are lined up outside the door. College students in their 20s, housewives in their 40s, middle-class office workers: nearly all are ...
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Jan 31, 2012 |
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Physicians debate whether patients need to know they're dying
In the days when American physicians dispensed oracular commands and their judgments were rarely questioned, a doctor could take it upon himself with few ethical qualms to keep from a patient the bad news of a terminal diagnosis.
Health
Apr 28, 2013 |
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Doctors, nurses often use holistic medicine for themselves
U.S. health care workers, especially doctors and nurses, use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) far more than do workers in other fields, according to a new study. CAM includes diverse therapies ...
Health
Aug 19, 2011 |
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