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The IRB office at the Washington University in St. Louis, MO, (WUSTL) will soon have an electronic system that will connect the IRB submission with every other application principal investigators (PIs) need to make.
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As virtual space technology improves, researchers are beginning to study how it can be used to help patients who've suffered traumatic brain injuries or other impairments that require rehabilitation.
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Researchers at the Institute for Simulation and Training at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, FL, are studying physical interventions used in a virtual world. Their work opens new horizons for rehabilitation clinical care, but also raises new questions for ethics review boards.
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The 1960s obedience experiments of Stanley Milgram have become a hallmark of social behavioral research, as well as a cautionary tale for those involved in human subjects protection.
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Because of the unusual scope of the National Children's Study (NCS), it raises a significant range of ethical issues for its designers and for the IRBs that have been reviewing it at 105 study centers across the United States.
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How would you like to reduce your staffing costs from 52% to 20% of your revenue in seven months? It is possible, based on the successes at Melville (NY) Surgery Center.
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Shift workers are at higher risk for injuries, accidents, and absenteeism, but simple work schedule changes can improve the health of these employees, according to a new review of 26 studies of shift workers, including autoworkers, nurses, and chemical plant employees.
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About one-third of 1,000 workers said they had fallen asleep or become very sleepy at work in the previous month, according to a recent National Sleep Foundation survey.
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Instead of management telling UPS employees how to improve their health and safety, the company's 12,000 frontline employees, who sit on more than 3,000 "comprehensive health and safety process" committees, decide that for themselves.
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Because the average UPS driver walks four and one-half miles a day, you'd think it would be difficult to convince them to come in early for a two-mile warm-up walk, but they do. This is just one example of how the company's Petaluma, CA, facility succeeded in changing the lifestyles of its workers.