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Health knowledge made personal
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Health knowledge made personal
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Designing for Health: The Age Factor--Energizing the Healthcare Workplace (Contract Magazine)
Sat Nov 21 20:27:18 PST 2009
"Designing for Health" is a monthly, Web-exclusive series from healthcare interior design leaders at Perkins+Will that focuses on the issues, trends, challenges, and research involved in crafting today's healing environments. This month's article focuses on age in the healthcare workplace.
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GAO faults OSHA's workplace injury data collection system (Business Insurance)
Sun Nov 22 09:52:54 PST 2009
WASHINGTON—Workplace injury and illness data that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration uses to assess workplace safety may be inadequate, according to a report released last week by the Government Accountability Office.
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Hair tests beat urine in nabbing workplace drug users (USA Today)
Fri Nov 20 13:14:15 PST 2009
Workplace drug tests using hair samples reveal 10 times as many job applicants and employees as cocaine users than werefound in urine tests.
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Loudoun County health calendar (Washington Post)
Sat Nov 21 21:00:00 PST 2009
MEDITATION AND GUIDED IMAGERY FOR CANCER PATIENTS AND SURVIVORS, 6:30-8 p.m. Tuesday, Inova Loudoun Hospital Radiation Oncology Center, 44035 Riverside Pkwy., Suite 100, Leesburg. Learn about the art of mediation in this monthly session. Call Karen Archer, 703-858-8857.
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Workplace wellness can hold down costs (The Daily Item)
Sat Nov 21 05:09:47 PST 2009
While the nation debates how to enact meaningful and effective health care reform, industry officials told business leaders that working to help people stay healthy in the first place would be a good way to start.
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Historic Health Care Bill Clears Senate Hurdle (WSB-TV 2 Atlanta)
Sat Nov 21 09:14:51 PST 2009
A bruising debate on health care awaits the Senate after Thanksgiving now that the historic legislation has cleared a key hurdle over the opposition of Republicans eager to inflict a punishing defeat on President Barack Obama.
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Domestic Violence And The Workplace (Hartford Courant)
Sun Nov 22 00:27:24 PST 2009
•A 2005 national survey found that 21 percent of full-time employed adults were victims of domestic violence.
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U.S. excerpts | Dubious at best; blowing smoke (The Kansas City Star)
Sat Nov 21 17:46:04 PST 2009
For years the Occupational Safety and Health Administration trumpeted reports that the number of workplace injuries — estimated to be around 1.3 million a year — was decreasing. Under the Bush administration, officials said that was a sign that their approach to workplace safety, which was...
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Current health care reform proposal will not effect the needed changes: Business Roundtable (News-Medical-Net)
Fri Nov 20 22:28:28 PST 2009
“As providers of health care insurance to more than 35 million Americans, the members of Business Roundtable have consistently taken a fact-based approach to advancing and supporting health care reform proposals. Throughout this discussion, we have remained engaged participants, contributing both...
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New federal law helps protect genetic privacy of employees (12 News Phoenix)
Sat Nov 21 07:34:47 PST 2009
A new federal law designed to prevent certain health information from being used against workers in job decisions is expected to have far-reaching effects in both health care and the workplace.
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