Oncology & Cancer
Colonoscopies save lives, but many Americans don't get one. Home tests could help change that
Celestine Tention's grandmother used to chase antacid tablets with ginger ale, one after another, day after day.
Mar 11, 2022
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Health
Sleep problems, stress and worry during the pandemic
Some people's lives got a lot busier with the onset of the pandemic. Researchers at NTNU have investigated how the COVID-19 pandemic affected different aspects of their lives, including the sleep of workers in essential occupations. ...
Mar 2, 2022
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Most workers experience multiple, interconnected vulnerabilities to COVID-19
COVID-19 has had a devastating impact on people's physical and mental health and has caused economic hardship. However, this adversity has disproportionately hurt certain populations—including essential workers and women—deepening ...
Feb 9, 2022
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
After miscarriages, workers have few guarantees for time off or job-based help
For three years, Rachel Makkar said, she thrived in her job as a broker and asset manager at J&B Building Co. in Colorado. She excelled at her work—she said her performance reviews noted that—and she thought it was "the ...
Jan 28, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Omicron slamming S. American hospitals as workers fall ill
The coronavirus' omicron variant starting to barrel across South America is pressuring hospitals whose employees are taking sick leave, leaving facilities understaffed to cope with COVID-19′s third wave.
Jan 17, 2022
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Health
Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum
As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don't provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck.
Jan 9, 2022
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Health
The importance and difficulty of assessing patients' work capacity in sickness certification
Nearly nine out of ten doctors in primary care think a decision on sickness absence is improved if they are in touch with the patient's employer—but only four out of ten are. A University of Gothenburg thesis highlights ...
Dec 27, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Asymptomatic healthcare workers may have contributed to the spread of SARS-CoV-2
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet have charted the number of healthcare workers in Stockholm who were on duty during the first wave of the pandemic despite being infected with SARS-CoV-2, having been asymptomatic at the ...
Dec 20, 2021
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Report explores how public policies failed Black, Latino Chicagoans during COVID-19
A new report issued today from the University of Illinois Chicago's Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy analyzes how national and local policies related to health care, mental health care, housing, child care ...
Dec 2, 2021
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Medical economics
Study: Why some care workers oppose mandatory vaccination
A new study from the University of Sheffield has explored why some care workers are opposed to mandatory vaccination and why the policy could make staff shortages worse.
Nov 16, 2021
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