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...opean airline between 1965 and 1995. Compared with former employees, more of the women who currently worked in the industry rated their health as 'fair' to 'poor,' and reported psychological distress, as measured by the validated General Health Questionnaire. Flight attendants were almost twice as likely to......piness also affects health, as demonstrated in the former Soviet Union where people are "among the unhappiest in the world" and their life expectancy is dropping. However, one can improve one's chance of happiness by being married, says the author. Married people live on average three years longer and hav...Book looks at improving health-care access for disabled
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...butes some of this difference to the fact that the former regimen could be taken once daily and was less likely to cause nausea than the latter combination, which had to be taken twice daily. While Gallant notes that antiretroviral drug regimens have dramatically decreased in complexity in the last 10 yea...How Science Works and How Can It Inform Policy?
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