A new two-volume comprehensive book for safety and health professionals, The Safety Professionals Handbook, is edited by a Penn State industrial health and safety researcher in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences and published by the American Society of Safety Engineers.
Joel M. Haight, associate professor of energy and mineral engineering and editor-in-chief of the [...]
Sheri Raves is a third-year nursing student in the Athabasca University at Mount Royal College bachelor of nursing program. This piece on the role nurses play in our healthcare system is part of a class assignment to share with the public more about what nurses do.
What does nursing mean to you? Most people picture a [...]
The Ministry of Health (MoH) is studying the implementation of mental health programmes in primary health clinics across the country, an official has told Khaleej Times.
According to Dr Muna Al Kuwari, Director of Central Primary Health in the MoH, primary health services in the country will be expanded to include mental health services to both [...]
Among 35 children 10 to 14 years old, those whose mothers had used cocaine, drank alcohol, or smoked tobacco or marijuana while they were pregnant tended to have a smaller head circumference than their peers who werent exposed to these substances prenatally.
The differences seen with use of a single substance were not statistically significant, but [...]
HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): Cuban health professionals serving in Guyana provide free treatment to more than 70 percent of the country’s population, boosted by the opening of a new Integral Diagnostic Center in Leonora, the second in the country. Dr. Bheri Ramsaran, of the Guyana Health Ministry, praised the work of the Cuban doctors many of [...]
GPs will be required to tell the employers of sick patients what tasks they
can perform in a new %26ldquo;well note designed to reduce the number of people on
incapacity benefit, The Times has learnt.
Alan Johnson, the Health Secretary, will this week prepare the ground for
controversial changes, saying that family doctors need to %26ldquo;change our
sick-note culture into [...]
“I was really scared when I heard that something was wrong with his liver,” she said through a Spanish interpreter. “The doctor said Andy’s liver got fatty like someone who drinks a lot.”Andy was just 8 at the time.With an epidemic of obesity affecting American children and adolescents, doctors say a growing number are being [...]
A new free book from the founder of Bipolar Central serves as “one-stop-shop” for learning about mental disorders.
Stanhope, NJ (PRWEB) March 15, 2008 — David Oliver, founder of Bipolar Central and the soon-to-be-launched Mental Health World, has recently released a free book that gives readers information on all the major mental disorders, grouped by classification.
Oliver [...]
%26#39;A physician who treats himself has a fool for a patient,%26#34; said the legendary Canadian physician Sir William Osler.Today, thanks to the Internet, we are all physicians. And potential fools.
All you need to do is Google your symptoms and, presto, you have a diagnosis. A few more key strokes and you [...]
Here in Chicago, many of us have been feeling a little like Margot or the 200 residents of Viganella. In addition to getting slammed with nearly twice the brutally cold and snowy days as normal, we had seven consecutive sunless days in February, which tied a 1986 [...]
