Archive for September, 2008

 

Job Autonomy And Work/life Balance

September 22nd, 2008

Employees with high levels of job autonomy and control over their schedules are more likely to bring their work home with them, according to surprising new research out of the University of Toronto.
Using data from a 2002 nationally representative survey of more than 2,600 American workers, sociology professor Scott Schieman and Ph.D. student Buy

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More US Adults Living With High Blood Pressure

September 18th, 2008

Two new national health studies show that more adults in the US are living with hypertension than ever before; while this is bad news in that the
proportion of the population with high blood pressure has gone up, it is also good news in that more people are living with rather than dying from

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Researchers Find Cause Of Severe Metabolic Disorders

September 18th, 2008

A healthy body stores fat in the form of so-called triglycerides in specialized fatty tissue as an energy reserve. Under certain conditions the delicate balance of the lipid metabolism gets out of control and fat is accumulated in the liver, leading to the dreaded fatty liver. This increases the risk of many metabolic diseases, such […]

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About 92% Of US Employees Say They Are Losing Sleep Over Financial Worries, ComPsych Poll

September 18th, 2008

Some 92 percent of employees say financial worries are keeping them up at night, according to a poll released by ComPsych Corporation today. Only 8 percent of employees described themselves as "not worried." ComPsych is the world’s largest provider of employee assistance programs and worldwide leader in GuidanceResources (EAPs, behavioral health, wellness, work-life and crisis […]

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Link Between Key Protein Molecule And Diverse Human Chronic Inflammatory Diseases

September 13th, 2008

Liwu Li, associate professor of biological sciences at Virginia Tech, has revealed a common connection between the cellular innate immunity network and human chronic inflammatory diseases, including atherosclerosis, Type 2 Diabetes, and neurodegenerative diseases. The finding presents a viable cellular and molecular target for the diagnosis and treatment of serious

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Controling Risk Factors Reduces Risk Of Stroke By 42 Percent

September 2nd, 2008

Results of a new analysis of the Treating to New Targets (TNT) study show that intensive low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol-lowering in patients with stable coronary heart disease (CHD) whose systolic blood pressure was less than 140 mmHg reduced the risk of major cardiovascular

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