Oncology & Cancer

US flight crew have higher cancer rates than general population

Flight crew have higher rates of specific cancers than the general population, according to a study in the open access journal Environmental Health involving 5,366 US flight attendants. Some of this increased cancer incidence ...

Alzheimer's disease & dementia

Understanding the challenges of air travel and dementia

As the number of people with dementia grows it's increasingly critical to understand its impact and how to manage it in a range of circumstances including air travel where no guidelines currently exist for airlines or airports.

Medical research

How does the location of a hospital room affect quality of care?

Years ago, Lesley Meng, now an assistant professor of operations at Yale SOM, was talking to the medical staff of an emergency department at a large hospital. Among other things, the conversation revealed that every nurse's ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Coronavirus: Staying safe on trains, planes and automobiles

Many of us rely on public transport to get to work, school, and to meet friends and family. But in the time of COVID-19 is it safe to use these vehicles and is there a difference between them?

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Lassa virus on flight raises questions about spread of disease

John Nides and his wife had buckled up for the trip home from New York on March 31 when a passenger boarded Delta Flight 2921 who needed help from a flight attendant to navigate the walkway, according to Nides, and was garbling ...

Cardiology

37-year-old survives heart attack on the way to her wedding

Four hours into a nearly six-hour flight from Seattle to Mexico, Sara Metz felt overly anxious—far more than the usual jitters of a bride-to-be days before her wedding on a beach in Playa del Carmen.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Strokes on a plane? On-board facial paralysis wasn't what it seemed

Alan J. Hunter from Oregon Health & Science University was a passenger on a recent airline flight when he responded to a flight attendant's request for a "doctor on board." The flight attendant suspected that a young male ...

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