"There are close to 11,000 deaths from injury each year. Most of these are preventable, making injuries a serious public health concern,” said South West Public Health Observatory Director Julia Verne.
Replacing one serving of total red meat with one serving of a healthy protein source, such as fish, poultry, and nuts, was associated with a lower mortality risk.
"Understanding that certain patients are at greater risk for MCI or Parkinson's disease will allow for early intervention, which is vital in the case of such disorders that destroy brain cells," said co-author Brad Boeve, M.D., a Mayo Clinic neurologist.
Poor communication persists between deaf people and mental health professionals, according to a review and an editorial published by the influential medical journal The Lancet.
"In our study, a brisk one-hour daily walk reduced the genetic influence towards obesity, measured by differences in BMI by half,” said said Qibin Qi, Ph.D., study author and a post doctorate research fellow in the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston.
The researchers found clear differences in dietary patterns across demographic and socioeconomic groups.
The sleep-deprived group, which slept one hour and 20 minutes less than the control group each day consumed an average 549 additional calories each day.
From 2005-2010, 39 outbreaks and 2,348 illnesses were linked to imported food from 15 countries.
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.