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Long-term exposure to ethylene oxide (EtO), even at permissible levels, may be putting hospital workers at increased risk for breast cancer, recent studies suggest.
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Time is money when an employee is injured and cant return to work. Besides the financial burden for the employer in temporary disability payments, medical costs, and extra staffing, rehabilitation actually can suffer as employees stay idle at home.
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Why do so few health care workers get the flu vaccine each year? What can be done about it?
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The heat is off of nursing homes or at least turned down from a boil to simmer. Occupational Safety and Health (OSHA) administrator John Henshaw announced that the National Emphasis Program for nursing homes has ended.
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HIV-prevention researchers say the current administration and Congress are undermining scientifically sound behavioral research through political scrutiny of investigators who are working to understand the transmission of a deadly epidemic.
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The HIV-prevention community could be forgiven for a little paranoia at the beginning of 2004.
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Ten million people pass through the United States correctional system each year, and 2 million of these people are incarcerated, while a large proportion of the remaining 8 million spend at least a little time behind bars.
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Researchers looking into early sexual behavior and attitudes about sex among youths have found that alcohol use does play a role in sexual initiation. They also have found that children have different attitudes about sexual behavior even as young as preteens.
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