OSHA found that the railroad, which provides commuter rail service in Connecticut, New York, and New Jersey, interfered with the worker's medical treatment and forced him to work in violation of his physician's orders.
Researchers, who studied 42,883 men in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, found that the heart disease risk persisted even after controlling for other risk factors, including smoking, physical inactivity, alcohol use, and family history of heart disease.
Survey data collected with smartphones in this study had fewer errors and were more quickly available for analyses than data collected on paper.
Smoking and obesity place a growing strain on an already stretched health care system. Employers are evaluating wellness programs—such as quit-smoking and fitness programs—in an attempt to lower costs by reducing health risk factors.
More medical liability claims come from ambulatory settings than anywhere else, but there is a "serious shortage of reliable data" to help those trying to improve the situation, it finds.
Between 2000 and 2050, the proportion of the world's population over 60 years will double from about 11 percent to 22 percent.
Aetna and the Aetna Foundation awarded $750,000 in grants for three studies, including one analyzing the communication between home health nurses and physicians caring for recently hospitalized Medicare patients with congestive heart failure.
Alzheimer’s is the sixth-leading cause of death in the country and the only cause of death among the top 10 in the United States that cannot be prevented, cured, or slowed.
Extramural funding of nanotechnology-related research has been undertaken to help increase the knowledge of nanotechnology and manufactured nanomaterials as they relate to occupational safety and health.
Earlier estimates of 337,000 annual U.S. hospital stays related to C. difficile actually understate its overall impact.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said it is "a great achievement for the people of the world" and one of the first Millennium Development Goal targets to be achieved.
Of those that listed an excuse for not following through with healthy habits, the most common culprit is said to be a lack of time.
"This study shows that integrating return-to-work strategies into therapy leads to less time out of work with little to no compromise in people’s psychological well-being over the course of one year,” said Suzanne Lagerveld, the study's lead author.
Hundreds of people who have traveled from the Americas to Asia and Africa in the past five years have become infected with the chikungunya virus. While the virus has not spread locally in the Western Hemisphere, experts say there is a clear risk of its introduction into local mosquito populations.
OSHA found that employees performing welding work in the main fabrication area were exposed to airborne concentrations of hexavalent chromium in excess of the permissible exposure limit.
The alliance is geared to address hazard communication and to increase awareness of the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS).
"International cooperation is a critical part of improving the safety and health of all workers," said NIOSH Director John Howard, M.D.
Health professionals need to help raise awareness about the health risks of using an unclean cell phone.
It is presently susceptible to methicillin but could acquire genes making it resistant, and it transmits efficiently from person to person.
The violation was cited after an investigation prompted by a complaint determined that employees working on mold machines and exposed to hot temperatures that could result in burns were provided with ineffective personal protective equipment.