Thousands of World Trade Center rescue and recovery workers were still suffering serious mental health effects three years after the disaster, the Health Department reported.
What keeps a newly licensed nurse on the job” Answers to that question are important to hospitals across the U.S., many of which are confronting serious nursing shortages.
How do adult stem cells protect themselves from accumulating genetic mutations that can lead to cancer? For more than three decades, many scientists have argued that the “immortal strand hypothesis” – which states that adult stem cells segregate their DNA in a non-random manner during cell division — explains it. And several recent reports have presented evidence backing the idea.
As summer temperatures cool in the United States, fewer mosquitoes whir around our tiki torches. But mosquitoes swarming around nearly 40 percent of the world?s population will continue to spread a deadly parasitic disease ? malaria.
Findings of various clinical trials and observational studies conflict over the risk of malignancy related to the use of tumor necrosis factor alpha blockers. The relationship between rheumatoid arthritis (RA), an autoimmune disease marked by chronic inflammation of the joints and tissue surrounding vital organs, and the incidence of cancer is complicated.
A study, published in the September issue of the American Journal of Nursing (AJN), provides new insight into the work experiences of newly-licensed RNs that may help reduce the turnover rate of hospital nurses.
Smoking tobacco is no longer considered sexy, but it may prove a permanent turn on for some genes. Research published today in the online open access journal BMC Genomics could help explain why former smokers are still more susceptible to lung cancer than those who have never smoked.
Mothers who cradle their baby to their right hand side are displaying signs of extreme stress, a new study suggests.
Last week, Jamba Juice was informed by the Santa Clara County Department of Public Health that an employee at San Jose/Willow Glen store has recently been diagnosed and treated for Hepatitis A, the mildest form of Hepatitis.
In a report that is among the first to describe the prevalence of HIV and Hepatitis B and C viruses in Afghanistan, a researcher from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) School of Medicine voiced concerns that increasing injection drug use and accompanying high-risk behavior could lead to an HIV epidemic in Afghanistan.