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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) plans to launch a new national initiative this fall called Steps to a HealthierUS Workforce, aimed at integrating worker healthy lifestyle promotion with the NIOSH mission of protecting and improving working conditions and work environment.
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Living wills dont work and waste your time when you promote them to patients, according to researchers at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
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A noninvasive therapy involving electrical stimulation is showing promising results in patients who suffer from dysphagia, or difficulty swallowing.
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If planning isnt already under way, the time is now for your hospital to get ready for implementation of the Health Insurance Portability
and Accountability Acts (HIPAA) security rule, which takes effect April 21, 2005.
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Long hours and overtime are linked to higher injury rates, more frequent illnesses, and even increased mortality, according to a review of 52 published research reports by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
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Helicobacter and Your Gallbladder; Warning: Can Gardening be Hazardous to Your Health?; Sylvester Shares His Salmonella; Combination Therapy for Bacterial Endocarditis
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The following summary of selected abstracts from 3 meetings will be published in multiple parts. The 43rd Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) met in Chicago September 14-17, 2003. The Infectious Disease Society of America (IDSA) met in San Diego October 9-12, 2003.
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Both clinical disease and sputum colonization due to Mycobacterium avium complex were traced to the potable water system of a large public hospital.
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A 10-day treatment course of albendazole and dexamethasone for patients with seizures and neurocysticercosis with viable cysts significantly reduced the incidence of subsequent seizures.