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A report from the University of California, Irvine suggests that the reliance employers have on drug screening to deter drug use among employees is probably well-placed.
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While many U.S. businesses that were the scene of at least one incident of workplace violence in 2005 say the incidents had a negative impact on their workforce.
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Occupational health nurses in Louisiana play a critical role in a network approach to handling workers' compensation claims, keeping the method's aggressive pace going.
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Keeping health care workers healthy when they work the night shift has long presented an occupational health challenge, and nutritionists at Los Angeles' Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have assembled some tips for using diet as one tool to boost health when work schedules interrupt the body's natural sleep-wake cycle.
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If the employer you work with is not already using health risk assessments (HRAs) to flag potential health risks in employees, get ready -- the number of U.S. employers offering HRAs is projected to jump 21% in 2007.
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The suggestion "Take the stairs!" is as common a suggestion as can be found in workplace wellness instructions. Taking the stairs instead of the elevator burns calories; taking the elevator doesn't.
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A multicenter, observational study retrospectively compared 59 individuals with acute or early HIV infection who elected to receive antiretroviral (ARV) therapy for 12 weeks to 337 patients who declined treatment.
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When ICU clinicians estimated rather than calculated ideal body weight in mechanically ventilated patients in order to set tidal volume, the majority of such estimations were sufficiently inaccurate that the resulting tidal volume was outside the unit's target range.
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