Ignoring the crazy weather that March and April generated, the past two months have been particularly interested in the health world, as the United States population finally paid attention to just what exactly was in their processed food, namely, Lean Finely Textured Beef also known “affectionately” as Pink Slime. Public attention appears to have been [...]
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“There is a cure for poverty. It is a rudimentary one, it does work, though. It works everywhere, and for the same reason. It’s colloquially called ‘the empowerment of women.’ It’s the only thing that does work. If you allow women control over their cycle of reproduction, so that they are not chained by their [...]
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Since the cold of the winter months have come upon us once again (Every year?), I have been inundated with the second-hand marijuana smoke of my neighbor. Let me try to explain. The house where I live has a forced-air central heating system through which all of the apartments are connected. I have returned to [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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This past semester, I set my second year Masters of Public Health students a deceptively simple task: Write an opinion piece for a lay audience on a topic related to environmental health sciences and public health. Deceptive, as anyone who has attempted to write an op ed will tell you, it’s fiendishly difficult to find [...]
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A guest blog by Craig Cormick. Over the past decade there has been a significant growth in public engagement activities relating to nanotechnology and when you look across all the data being generated you can learn a lot about how the public view the risks and benefits of the technology. That’s probably not news for [...]
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A key focus of the Risk Science Symposium this past September was examining at the concepts and fields of risk, innovation and sustainability. In our quest to consider them from as many view points as possible, we had the pleasure of having David Zaruk, who writes a blog called The Risk Monger, present a keynote [...]
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Don’t worry. Everything will be fine. It turns out that the NFL Players Association and the owners have reached an agreement and the 2011 NFL football season will go on. And, college football began last week. Stop crying, America! We will still have something to do over the weekends this fall. It has all worked [...]
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Blockbuster movies aren’t usually noted for their scientific accuracy and education potential. But since its release last week, Steven Soderburgh’s Contagion seems to be challenging the assumption that Hollywood can’t do science. The other day I posted a piece about how director Steven Soderburgh and screenwriter Scott Z Burns’ attention to detail and plausibility left [...]
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Like many others this weekend, I watched Steven Soderbergh’s epidemic disaster movie Contagion. Unlike many other viewers I suspect, I came away feeling surprisingly optimistic. Not about the threat of a devastating pandemic, but over Soderbergh’s informed and plausible treatment of the subject, and the eventual triumph of humanity over adversity. Contagion topped the US [...]
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Sickness, Sleep, and the Workplace: Occupational Stress in Uncertain Times
by Lindsay Ward on October 29, 2011
Despite the popularity of the aphorism that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” evidence continues to mount that organizations are unwilling or unable to successfully integrate preventative solutions into their occupational health strategies. Earlier this month, a study released by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD), an HR research [...]
Tagged as: occupational stress, Sleep
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