The findings suggest that a four-day week significantly reduces stress and illness in the workforce, and helps with worker retention.Some 71% of employees self-reported lower levels of “burnout”, and 39% said they were less stressed, compared to the start of the trial.Researchers found a 65% reduction in sick days, and a 57% fall in the… Continue reading Would you prefer afour-day working week?
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Trichloroethylene: An Invisible Cause of Parkinson’s Disease?
The etiologies of Parkinson’s disease (PD) remain unclear. Some, such as certain genetic mutations and head trauma, are widely known or easily identified. However, these causes or risk factors do not account for the majority of cases. Other, less visible factors must be at play. Among these is a widely used industrial solvent and common… Continue reading Trichloroethylene: An Invisible Cause of Parkinson’s Disease?
META-ANALYSIS: CLUSTER HEADACHE, MIGRAINE HAVE STRONG LINKS TO CIRCADIAN SYSTEM
...For cluster headache, the meta-analysis found a circadian pattern of headache attacks in 71% of people. Attacks peaked in the late hours of the night to early hours of the morning. During the year, people had more attacks in the spring and fall. On the genetic level, cluster headache was associated with two main circadian… Continue reading META-ANALYSIS: CLUSTER HEADACHE, MIGRAINE HAVE STRONG LINKS TO CIRCADIAN SYSTEM
Burnout, Professionalism, and the Quality of US Health Care
Physician burnout is a major threat to health care quality, patient outcomes, and the vitality of the medical workforce.1 More than half of US physicians report at least 1 symptom of burnout—nearly twice the rate of the general working population—and many also experience depression, anxiety, or suicidal ideation.2 Burnout is estimated to cost the health… Continue reading Burnout, Professionalism, and the Quality of US Health Care
Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in England, 2013–20: an observational study of NHS privatisation
BackgroundThe effects of outsourcing health services to for-profit providers are contested, with some arguing that introducing such providers will improve performance through additional competition while others worry that this will lead to cost cutting and poorer outcomes for patients. We aimed to examine this debate by empirically evaluating the impact of outsourced spending to private… Continue reading Outsourcing health-care services to the private sector and treatable mortality rates in England, 2013–20: an observational study of NHS privatisation
Association between insomnia and the incidence of myocardial infarction: A systematic review and meta-analysis
BackgroundInsomnia has been closely associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD) including myocardial infarction (MI). Our study aims to assess the eligibility of insomnia as a potential risk factor for MI.MethodsPubMed, Scopus, and Web of Science were searched using terms; such as “Insomnia” and “MI.” Only observational controlled studies with data on the incidence of MI among… Continue reading Association between insomnia and the incidence of myocardial infarction: A systematic review and meta-analysis
Air pollution and decreased bone mineral density among Women’s Health Initiative participants
BackgroundOsteoporosis heavily affects postmenopausal women and is influenced by environmental exposures. Determining the impact of criteria air pollutants and their mixtures on bone mineral density (BMD) in postmenopausal women is an urgent priority.MethodsWe conducted a prospective observational study using data from the ethnically diverse Women's Health Initiative Study (WHI) (enrollment, September 1994–December 1998; data analysis,… Continue reading Air pollution and decreased bone mineral density among Women’s Health Initiative participants
Phthalates and Incident Diabetes in Midlife Women: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)
ContextPhthalates are hypothesized to contribute to diabetes, but longitudinal evidence in humans is limited.ObjectiveWe examined whether phthalate exposure was associated with a higher incidence of diabetes in a racially/ethnically diverse cohort of midlife women.MethodsIn the Study of Women's Health Across the Nation Multipollutant Study, we followed 1308 women without diabetes in 1999-2000 for 6 years.… Continue reading Phthalates and Incident Diabetes in Midlife Women: The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN)
Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
...We included 11 new RCTs and cluster‐RCTs (610,872 participants) in this update, bringing the total number of RCTs to 78. Six of the new trials were conducted during the COVID‐19 pandemic; two from Mexico, and one each from Denmark, Bangladesh, England, and Norway. We identified four ongoing studies, of which one is completed, but unreported, evaluating masks… Continue reading Physical interventions to interrupt or reduce the spread of respiratory viruses
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