Need For HIV Guidelines For Health Workers In Developing Countries
... in South Africa, examine the issue of the risk of occupational HIV infection from patient to health worker in the developing world. The authors note that the prevalence of HIV infection among patients that are cared for is very high in some poorer countries and that such regions tend to lack the resources to imp...UB Plants "Seeds" By Investing In Research Projects; Researchers Leverage Investment 14 Times Over
...nt to Shelly Lane, formerly assistant professor of occupational therapy, and Susan Mistrett, education coordinator in the Center for Assistive Technology, from the Department of Education to fund an innovative program to identify assistive technology materials to support the play of infants and toddlers with phys...Prevalence Of Silicosis Studied In Surface Coal Miners
...urable and potentially fatal lung diseasecaused by occupational exposure to inhaled silica dust. It is estimated thereare about 3,300 surface miners of bituminous coal in western Pennsylvania. Thisresearch evaluated 667 surface miners who volunteered for the study. Each minerwas given a chest X-ray and a breathin...Unhealthy Lifestyles Not Primary Cause Of High Mortality Rates
...ng the disadvantaged include increased exposure to occupational and environmental health hazards, and lack of preventive medical care. "Improving the health habits of Americans is a critical and important public health goal. However, health policies and interventions that primarily focus on individual he...World's First Producer To Repair Brain Damage From Stroke
...to fuller recovery from stroke. Whilephysical and occupational therapy helps many patients adapt to the damage th... Currently, rehabilitation through physical and occupational therapy isthe only treatment available for patients with established stroke. No directtreatment is ...... of Public Health'sdepartment of environmental and occupational health and a private Pittsburgh-based company, Cellomics, Inc. Through biocombinatorial chemistry,the university investigators will create novel chemical compounds at thedepartment of chemistry's newly established Combinatorial Chemistry Center andt...Health And Wealth: Women Are DifferentOr Are They?
...ite. "Empirically, it means assigning womento the occupational class of male relatives." That conventional view fails to consider the ways in which gender is afundamental element of socioeconomic status, the scientists say. It doesn'ttake into account the different patterns of job concentration for men and wom...1930s Fascism Spawned Public Health Initiatives
...ng nutritionaland diet therapeutics, mitigation of occupational hazards such as asbestos andan aggressive anti-tobacco program. Hitler's vegetarianism and abstinence fromalcohol and tobacco influenced preventive approaches, as did the increasingscarcity of supplies in a country long at war. On the dieta...Semiconductor Plants May Be A Danger To The Health Of Employees
...S Department of Laborstatistics show that rates of occupational illness in American semiconductorplants caused by "caustic, noxious and allergenic substances" are three times ashigh as in other manufacturing industries. The most recent study to raise doubts about the safety of semiconductorworkers is one ......e possible links between child health and parents' occupational exposure to ionising radiation. They found that a total of 111 of the 46,107 children were reported to have developed a malignancy before their 25th birthday. Among children born in 1965 or later (two thirds of all children in the study) it was pos...Mayo Clinic study reveals new information about incidence of Parkinsonism
...he illness," saysDr. Bower. "Alternatively, maybe occupational exposures put men at increasedrisk."...Doctors are not good at going to see their own doctor!
... look after other NHS staff and their families; an occupational health service for general practitioners (GPs) and...problems among doctors, visiting their GP or local occupational health service may not be perceived by doctor patients as the appropriate confidential setting for c...Research shows low lead in body can cause spontaneous abortion
...ur women were all below the acceptablestandard for occupational exposures." Most lead that Mexican women absorb comes from consuming food fromceramic cookware glazed with lead and from air pollution, she said. Anothersource may be husbands whose clothes become contaminated at work or whose semenis contami......educed drive and motivation, andfunction poorly in occupational and social opportunities. There are noeffective drug treatments for these symptoms. Psychiatry is much furtheradvanced in treating "positive" or psychotic symptoms, which include delusions(false beliefs), hallucinations (hearing voices, seeing fals...University Of Wisconsin to launch center to study how emotions affect health
...n'teverything. For example, lower income and lower occupational status groups aretypically held in lower social regard and are exposed to more stressful lifeconditions that may make it harder for them to feel happy and in control oftheir lives. This study will take stock of social influences on the mind, tapping ...New study finds multiple myeloma linked to radiation exposures of nuclear workers
...ive exposures were less than one rem. The current occupational limit for radiation workers is five rem per year. ...uation of radiation doses and measurement of other occupational exposures not available in the Hanford studies," he said. Investigators also tried to determine whe...An active life helps to ward off Alzheimer's
...lly active and had lower levels of educational and occupational achievement than people without the disease. This latest research, however, suggests that it doesn't take a doctorate to ward off Alzheimer's -- an intellectually or physically stimulating hobby will also be helpful. Passive activities, such as watch...Brain scans of Gulf War veterans show brain damage
... veterans with Syndrome 2 have the highest rate of occupational disability, report the worst vertigo attacks and performed the worst on objective medical tests of brain function. Veterans with Syndromes 1 and 3 are generally still able to work, have less dizziness, performed better on the medical tests and were f...The effect of education on depression increases with age
...tes early in life, stemming from factors including occupational conditions, exercise and diet habits, and health care access, according to the researchers. "The results of this study indicate that greater attention to life-course specific stressors and processes -- particularly those that operate in early adultho...Repairing brain damage from stroke may be possible with brain cell transplants
...ese patients is rehabilitation through physical or occupational therapy." In the study, transplants were given to 12 people whose stroke occurred six months to six years previously and who had major movement disabilities, which could be as severe as paralysis in an arm or leg. Six months after transplantation...