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Research examines the impact of managers' active listening on employees' sense of job insecurity

Between the financial disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic and the pervasive lack of stability throughout a rapidly shifting global economy, many workers will face job insecurity at some point in their careers.

8 Oct 2021

New model can predict the risk of airborne COVID-19 infection in offices and schools

As more UK workers and students return to offices and schools, a new model has been developed to predict the risk of airborne COVID-19 infection in such environments.

6 Oct 2021

WHO's new List of Essential Medicines prioritizes access to diabetes and cancer treatments

WHO today published the new edition of its Model Lists of Essential Medicines and Essential Medicines for Children, which include new treatments for various cancers, insulin analogues and new oral medicines for diabetes, new medicines to assist people who want to stop smoking, and new antimicrobials to treat serious bacterial and fungal infections.

1 Oct 2021

Additional supportive care services benefit older adults receiving chemotherapy, study finds

A clinical trial led by researchers at City of Hope, a world-renowned cancer research and treatment organization, showed that patients over 65 receiving chemotherapy experienced significantly fewer treatment-related side effects when a multidisciplinary team of experts analyzed each case and introduced personalized interventions.

30 Sep 2021

The connection between age and virulence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

A new study focuses on determining the existence of an age-related heterogeneity in the severity of COVID-19.

30 Sep 2021

Covid is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of urbanites

Rural Americans are dying of covid at more than twice the rate of their urban counterparts — a divide that health experts say is likely to widen as access to medical care shrinks for a population that tends to be older, sicker, heavier, poorer and less vaccinated.

30 Sep 2021

As Democrats bicker over massive spending plan, Here’s what’s at stake for Medicaid

Hours after the Supreme Court in 2012 narrowly upheld the Affordable Care Act but rejected making Medicaid expansion mandatory for states, Obama administration officials laughed when asked whether that would pose a problem.

30 Sep 2021

New study to evaluate community-based approach to helping children manage asthma symptoms

A new community-based approach to helping children manage their asthma symptoms will launch in up to 40 public, charter, and parochial schools across the Bronx, and enroll 416 students aged 4-12 years old.

29 Sep 2021

NYU wins roughly $4 million federal grant to protect transit workers from COVID-19

NYU School of Global Public Health researchers have been awarded a five-year, roughly $4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to study efforts to protect New York City transit workers from COVID-19 and how these infection prevention and control programs impact the health and well-being of frontline workers.

27 Sep 2021

Irish meat processing plant COVID-19 outbreak: a retrospective study

A new study involved a retrospective investigation of the outbreak of COVID-19 in an Irish meat plant.

27 Sep 2021

Diminished waveforms on EKGs of hospitalized patients can help predict worsening health, death

Specific and dynamic changes on electrocardiograms (EKGs) of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 or influenza can help predict a timeframe for worsening health and death, according to a new Mount Sinai study.

25 Sep 2021

Mounting covid deaths fuel school bus drivers’ fears

Natalia D'Angelo got sick right after school started in August. She was driving a school bus for special education students in Griffin-Spalding County School System about 40 miles south of Atlanta and contracted covid-19.

24 Sep 2021

Low wages and pandemic gut staffing support for those with disabilities

Ernestine "Erma" Bryant likes her job, but the pay is a problem. She works in a caregiver role as a "direct support professional" in Tifton, Georgia, helping people who have intellectual and developmental disabilities with basic functions such as dressing, bathing and eating.

24 Sep 2021

Researchers to investigate suicidal behavior and self-harm among healthcare workers

A group of researchers from the University of Bristol and University College London recently collaborated in order to plan an investigation into suicidal behavior and self-harm in healthcare workers.

23 Sep 2021

The checkup is in the mail? Soliciting letter carriers to help deliver health care

Two of America's toughest problems can be tempered with one solution. The baby boom generation is graying, creating an ever-larger population of older people, many isolated, whose needs the nation is ill equipped to meet or even monitor.

23 Sep 2021

Addressing Honey Fraud in Global Food Chains

In this interview, Peter Awram is an expert from the Worker Bee Honey Company, the largest apiary in British Columbia, Canada, and Gillian Wade, an expert in consumer class action litigation, discuss the issues facing honey producers.

From Bruker BioSpin Division 22 Sep 2021

U of U Health awarded funding to establish new Center of Excellence for Total Worker Health

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health has awarded U of U Health funding to establish a new Utah-based Center of Excellence for Total Worker Health as part of its national initiative to improve workplace wellness and safety through innovative collaborative work.

21 Sep 2021

Worker News and Research

Research examines the impact of managers' active listening on employees' sense of job insecurity

New model can predict the risk of airborne COVID-19 infection in offices and schools

WHO's new List of Essential Medicines prioritizes access to diabetes and cancer treatments

Additional supportive care services benefit older adults receiving chemotherapy, study finds

The connection between age and virulence of SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern

Covid is killing rural Americans at twice the rate of urbanites

As Democrats bicker over massive spending plan, Here’s what’s at stake for Medicaid

New study to evaluate community-based approach to helping children manage asthma symptoms

NYU wins roughly $4 million federal grant to protect transit workers from COVID-19

Irish meat processing plant COVID-19 outbreak: a retrospective study

Diminished waveforms on EKGs of hospitalized patients can help predict worsening health, death

Mounting covid deaths fuel school bus drivers’ fears

Low wages and pandemic gut staffing support for those with disabilities

Researchers to investigate suicidal behavior and self-harm among healthcare workers

The checkup is in the mail? Soliciting letter carriers to help deliver health care

Addressing Honey Fraud in Global Food Chains

U of U Health awarded funding to establish new Center of Excellence for Total Worker Health

COVID-19 infections in Australian healthcare workers

Long-term injectables plus counseling improve medication adherence in bipolar disorder patients

COVID mRNA vaccines display weakened immune response with age and diminish over time, according to new study

Advancing Neuroscience Research Through Collaboration and Patient-Centered Innovation

The impact of vibration on microscopy

How Omics Technologies Are Transforming Biological Research and Drug Discovery

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