Archive: 11/03/2016
Experts warn that touting 'naturalness' of breastfeeding could backfire
Breastfeeding campaigns that extol breastfeeding as the "natural" way to feed infants could result in harmful decision-making by some parents on other important health matters, according to experts from the Perelman School ...
Mar 11, 2016
'Cadillac tax' on health benefits will hit middle class hardest
Although both liberal and conservative economists have denounced the longstanding exemption of employment-based health benefits from taxes as tantamount to a "regressive" tax subsidy that unfairly favors the rich, and have ...
Mar 11, 2016
Insufficient knowledge of stroke patient's last hours of life
Caregivers are displaying insufficient knowledge of how things are for stroke patients the week before they die – for example, staff have difficulties stating whether the patients had someone with them at their death, or ...
Mar 11, 2016
Bus drivers' health at risk due to sedentary behaviour, Loughborough research reveals
A new pilot study into bus drivers' sedentary behaviour (prolonged sitting) during and outside working hours.
Mar 11, 2016