Physically demanding jobs are linked to shorter working lives, more sick leave and unemployment than jobs that don’t rely on muscle and brawn, suggests a large long term study of Danish workers in hundreds of different types of jobs, and published online in Occupational & Environmental Medicine. The findings have implications for plans by various […]
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Much shorter radiation treatment found to be safe, effective for people with soft tissue sarcoma
A new study led by researchers at the UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center found that treating soft tissue sarcoma with radiation over a significantly shorter period of time is safe, and likely just as effective, as a much longer conventional course of treatment. Sarcoma, a rare type of cancer of the soft tissues (for example, […]
Shorter life expectancy linked to 2016 presidential election outcome
Concerns about health and rising death rates may have helped tilt the 2016 presidential election in favor of Donald J. Trump, according to an analysis of voting patterns and mortality rates in counties across the U.S. Findings from the study, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center (CUIMC), were published online today in the Journal of […]