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The future direction of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is once again in question as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, declined to reappoint John Howard, MD, as director.
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Hearing loss is a surprisingly common chronic occupational condition, according to a new study's findings.
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There is a growing trend toward use of video games to help patients recover from strokes, broken bones, and surgery. "Going forward, these kinds of videogames will become an additional tool for the occupational health professional to better treat their patients and help them more specifically."
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This is the first of a two-part series on evaluating weight loss programs. This month, we give strategies to demonstrate the impact of your programs. Next month, we'll report on the use of an audit tool to measure the effectiveness of obesity prevention programs.
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Working nights and rotating shifts can wreak havoc with your sleep schedule.
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Do you assume that employees with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin infections need to be routinely excluded from work?
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America's obesity epidemic continues to expand at the waistline, raising the issues of both chronic disease and job safety in obese workers.
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Many odors are noxious, but few are as repellent as the foul smell of massive hematochezia. Everybody in the emergency department knows something is wrong. Once you get past the smell, you realize you often have a very ill patient with a complex medical history and underlying comorbidities. Disposition decision is often easy ("ADMIT"), but to whom and where?
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