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Currently, about 85% of parents put babies down to sleep on their backs. Yet other safe sleep practices also must be followed, and education on these must be as vigilant as that provided regarding putting babies to bed on their backs.
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End-of-life issues should be discussed while people are in good health. Just as people prepare for birth, it is important to prepare for death.
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America's obesity epidemic continues to expand at the waistline, raising the issues of both chronic disease and job safety in obese workers.
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Do you assume that employees with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) skin infections need to be routinely excluded from work?
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Working nights and rotating shifts can wreak havoc with your sleep schedule.
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This is the first of a two-part series on evaluating weight loss programs. This month, we give strategies to demonstrate the impact of your programs. Next month, we'll report on the use of an audit tool to measure the effectiveness of obesity prevention programs.
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There is a growing trend toward use of video games to help patients recover from strokes, broken bones, and surgery. "Going forward, these kinds of videogames will become an additional tool for the occupational health professional to better treat their patients and help them more specifically."
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Hearing loss is a surprisingly common chronic occupational condition, according to a new study's findings.
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The future direction of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is once again in question as Centers for Disease Control and Prevention director Julie Gerberding, MD, MPH, declined to reappoint John Howard, MD, as director.
