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Scientific American Magazine: Solving a Massive Worker Health Puzzle
Sunday, February 17, 2008 - 10:00 PM - 9 months ago - 37 Reads - Cancer - Scientific American In John Shea and John Greco’s day, the cavernous Pratt & Whitney Aircraft plant was filled with an oily mist that sprayed from the grinding machines, coated the ceiling and covered the workers, who came home drenched in pungent machine oil. Degreasing pits, filled with solvent for cleaning the engine parts, dotted the factory floor; workers used squirt cans of solvent to clean their hands and clothes. Shea spent 34 years grinding engine blades and vanes at the million-square-foot facility in North Haven, Conn. In 1999, at age 56, he was diagnosed with brain cancer. Six months later Shea’s friend and co-worker Greco learned he had the same disease: glioblastoma multiforme, the most aggressive type of brain tumor. A year after Shea’s diagnosis, both men were dead, but their widows had already begun asking questions about the seemingly unusual number of cases of this deadly form of cancer at one of the world’s top jet-engine manufacturers. |
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A la pêche, l’instinct du prédateur resurgit
Tuesday, April 17, 2007 - 05:25 PM - 1 year, 7 months ago - 37 Reads - Presse généraliste - Nouvel Observateur Sciences Des chercheurs de l’institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD) ont étudié la trajectoire des bateaux de pêche lorsqu’ils sont à la recherche de bancs. D’après les résultats obtenus, les pêcheurs se comportent, dans l’espace, comme les prédateurs naturels en dépit de tout le matériel de détection dont ils disposent. |
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Some Seek Guidelines to Reflect Vitamin D's Benefits
Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 09:00 PM - 4 months, 2 weeks ago - 37 Reads - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) A flurry of recent research indicating that Vitamin D may have a dizzying array of health benefits has reignited an intense debate over whether federal guidelines for the "sunshine vitamin" are outdated, leaving millions unnecessarily vulnerable to cancer, heart disease, diabetes and other ailments. |
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Va. Bishop Apologizes Over Girl's Abortion
Thursday, July 03, 2008 - 09:00 PM - 4 months, 2 weeks ago - 37 Reads - Presse généraliste - The Washington Post (health) Leaders of a Richmond-based Catholic charity under federal investigation are scrambling to explain the organization's involvement in helping a 16-year-old illegal immigrant in its care get an abortion in January. |
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Training fellowships for intervention epidemiology in Europe
Saturday, January 05, 2008 - 07:11 AM - 10 months, 2 weeks ago - 37 Reads - Presse spécialisée - Eurosurveillance The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is recruiting for the 14th cohort of fellows in the European Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (EPIET), which will start in September 2008.... |
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Les macaques à longue queue "paient" les femelles pour s'accoupler
Friday, January 04, 2008 - 07:30 AM - 10 months, 3 weeks ago - 36 Reads - Presse généraliste - Le monde Sciences En l'occurrence, il ne s'agit pas, pour ces primates, d'offrir de l'argent mais plutôt un service consistant à épouiller madame et à nettoyer son pelage avant d'obtenir ses faveurs. |
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Le ralentissement des dépenses d'assurance-maladie se confirme - Les Échos
Wednesday, March 19, 2008 - 02:32 AM - 8 months ago - 36 Reads - Presse généraliste - Google santé france Les dépenses de médecine libérale ont stagné en février par rapport à la même période de l'an dernier. L'assurance-maladie évoque l'effet des franchises médicales. La perspective d'un plan de redressement d'urgence, au printemps, s'éloigne de plus en ... |
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PERSPECTIVE: Making Smoking History Worldwide
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 07:00 AM - 1 year, 7 months ago - 36 Reads - Presse spécialisée - New England Journal of Medicin It seemed impossible at first. But in 2004, Ireland made history as the first country to implement a comprehensive smoking ban in indoor workplaces, including restaurants and bars. Defying dire ... |
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Personnes âgées : plus d'oméga 3 va de pair avec moins de dépressions - AFP
Saturday, May 17, 2008 - 06:15 AM - 6 months, 1 week ago - 36 Reads - Presse généraliste - Google santé france PARIS (AFP) — Les personnes âgées ayant dans le sang un taux élevé d'acide gras oméga 3 ont moins de symptômes dépressifs, selon une étude réalisée par des chercheurs de l'Inserm et publiée dans le dernier numéro de l'American Journal of Clinical ... |
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IMAGES IN CLINICAL MEDICINE: Gravid Uterus in an Incisional Hernia
Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 07:00 AM - 1 year, 7 months ago - 36 Reads - Presse spécialisée - New England Journal of Medicin A 32-year-old healthy woman, gravida 6 with two living children, presented at our clinic for the termination of pregnancy at 18 weeks of gestation. Her only previous abdominal surgeries had ... |
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