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Friday, June 15, 2012

Work-Related Asthma a Significant Problem: CDC

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THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- About nine percent of all asthma cases in the United States are caused or made worse by work-related exposures, a new federal study says.

That means work-related asthma affects about 1.4 million adults annually, the researchers said.

State-by-state rates of workplace-related asthma ranged from 4.8 percent (Arizona) to just over 14 percent (Florida), according to the study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The analysis of 2006-09 data from 38 states and the District of Columbia also suggests that older workers and those in certain ethnic or minority groups are most at risk. For example, rates of employment-related asthma were 12.7 percent for people ages 45-64 vs. about 7 percent for people ages 18-44. Among racial groups rates of work-related asthma were 12.5 percent for blacks, 10.5 percent for Hispanics and 8.2 percent for whites, the report found.

The estimated proportion of adults with current asthma who had work-related asthma was similar for men and women, at about nine percent.

Asthma linked to on-the-job exposures is a preventable but under-recognized illness and the new findings highlight the need to expand workplace surveillance to better understand the risk factors and to better focus prevention efforts, the researchers said.

Better surveillance of the problem "would enhance our understanding of work-related asthma epidemiology and enable states, other government agencies, health professionals, employers, workers and worker representatives to better target intervention efforts to reduce the burden of work-related asthma," the researchers wrote in a summary.

The study appears in the May 25 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

-- Robert Preidt MedicalNewsCopyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved. SOURCES: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, news release, May 24, 2012



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Work-Related Asthma a Significant Problem: CDC

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THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- About nine percent of all asthma cases in the United States are caused or made worse by work-related exposures, a new federal study says.

That means work-related asthma affects about 1.4 million adults annually, the researchers said.

State-by-state rates of workplace-related asthma ranged from 4.8 percent (Arizona) to just over 14 percent (Florida), according to the study by researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

The analysis of 2006-09 data from 38 states and the District of Columbia also suggests that older workers and those in certain ethnic or minority groups are most at risk. For example, rates of employment-related asthma were 12.7 percent for people ages 45-64 vs. about 7 percent for people ages 18-44. Among racial groups rates of work-related asthma were 12.5 percent for blacks, 10.5 percent for Hispanics and 8.2 percent for whites, the report found.

The estimated proportion of adults with current asthma who had work-related asthma was similar for men and women, at about nine percent.

Asthma linked to on-the-job exposures is a preventable but under-recognized illness and the new findings highlight the need to expand workplace surveillance to better understand the risk factors and to better focus prevention efforts, the researchers said.

Better surveillance of the problem "would enhance our understanding of work-related asthma epidemiology and enable states, other government agencies, health professionals, employers, workers and worker representatives to better target intervention efforts to reduce the burden of work-related asthma," the researchers wrote in a summary.

The study appears in the May 25 issue of the CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.

-- Robert Preidt MedicalNewsCopyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved. SOURCES: U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, news release, May 24, 2012



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Looking Out for Your Liver

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April 6, 2012 / Vol. 61 / No. RR–2
Good Laboratory Practices for Biochemical Genetic Testing and Newborn Screening for Inherited Metabolic Disorders
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This report provides recommendations for good laboratory practices for biochemical genetic testing and newborn screening for inherited metabolic disorders. The recommended practices address the benefits of using a quality management system approach, factors to consider before introducing new tests, establishment and verification of test performance specifications, the total laboratory testing process, confidentiality of patient information and test results, and personnel qualifications and responsibilities for laboratory testing for inherited metabolic diseases. These recommendations are intended for laboratories that perform biochemical genetic testing to improve the quality of laboratory services and for newborn screening laboratories to ensure the quality of laboratory practices for inherited metabolic disorders. These recommendations also are intended as a resource for medical and public health professionals who evaluate laboratory practices, for users of laboratory services to facilitate their collaboration with newborn screening systems and use of biochemical genetic tests, and for standard-setting organizations and professional societies in developing future laboratory quality standards and practice recommendations.


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Keep Kids Current on Vaccines

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April 6, 2012 / Vol. 61 / No. RR–2
Good Laboratory Practices for Biochemical Genetic Testing and Newborn Screening for Inherited Metabolic Disorders
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This report provides recommendations for good laboratory practices for biochemical genetic testing and newborn screening for inherited metabolic disorders. The recommended practices address the benefits of using a quality management system approach, factors to consider before introducing new tests, establishment and verification of test performance specifications, the total laboratory testing process, confidentiality of patient information and test results, and personnel qualifications and responsibilities for laboratory testing for inherited metabolic diseases. These recommendations are intended for laboratories that perform biochemical genetic testing to improve the quality of laboratory services and for newborn screening laboratories to ensure the quality of laboratory practices for inherited metabolic disorders. These recommendations also are intended as a resource for medical and public health professionals who evaluate laboratory practices, for users of laboratory services to facilitate their collaboration with newborn screening systems and use of biochemical genetic tests, and for standard-setting organizations and professional societies in developing future laboratory quality standards and practice recommendations.


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Health Tip: Walk at Work

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(HealthDay News) -- There are plenty of ways to squeeze in exercise and some social time at work without sacrificing productivity.

The American Council on Exercise mentions these suggestions:

Skip the coffee/smoke break and ask a co-worker to join you for a 15-minute walk.If you have a regular one-to-one meeting with a co-worker, make it a walking meeting.Take the stairs instead of the elevator, and see how many co-workers will join you.Start up a workplace walking group to walk on breaks, during lunch and after work.Visit a bookstore, gallery or museum for a stroll.

-- Diana Kohnle MedicalNewsCopyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved.



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Health Tip: Walk at Work

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(HealthDay News) -- There are plenty of ways to squeeze in exercise and some social time at work without sacrificing productivity.

The American Council on Exercise mentions these suggestions:

Skip the coffee/smoke break and ask a co-worker to join you for a 15-minute walk.If you have a regular one-to-one meeting with a co-worker, make it a walking meeting.Take the stairs instead of the elevator, and see how many co-workers will join you.Start up a workplace walking group to walk on breaks, during lunch and after work.Visit a bookstore, gallery or museum for a stroll.

-- Diana Kohnle MedicalNewsCopyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved.



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Keep Your Guard Up

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April 6, 2012 / Vol. 61 / No. RR–2
Good Laboratory Practices for Biochemical Genetic Testing and Newborn Screening for Inherited Metabolic Disorders
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This report provides recommendations for good laboratory practices for biochemical genetic testing and newborn screening for inherited metabolic disorders. The recommended practices address the benefits of using a quality management system approach, factors to consider before introducing new tests, establishment and verification of test performance specifications, the total laboratory testing process, confidentiality of patient information and test results, and personnel qualifications and responsibilities for laboratory testing for inherited metabolic diseases. These recommendations are intended for laboratories that perform biochemical genetic testing to improve the quality of laboratory services and for newborn screening laboratories to ensure the quality of laboratory practices for inherited metabolic disorders. These recommendations also are intended as a resource for medical and public health professionals who evaluate laboratory practices, for users of laboratory services to facilitate their collaboration with newborn screening systems and use of biochemical genetic tests, and for standard-setting organizations and professional societies in developing future laboratory quality standards and practice recommendations.


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Sleep disturbance interventions for oncology patients: Steps forward and issues arising

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Surgical Residents Often Fatigued, Study Confirms

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THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- Fatigue is a common problem among surgery residents, a small, new study finds.

A growing body of evidence suggests that fatigue may play a major role in medical errors, said Dr. Frank McCormick, of the Harvard Orthopaedic Combined Residency Program and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues.

Their study included 27 orthopedic surgery residents who slept an average of 5.3 hours a day, with average individual amounts of sleep ranging from 2.8 hours to 7.2 hours.

Overall, the residents were functioning at less than 80 percent mental effectiveness due to fatigue during an average of 48 percent of their time awake. They also were functioning at less than 70 percent mental effectiveness due to fatigue for an average of 27 percent of their time awake.

Residents on the night shift slept an average of 5.1 hours daily and had higher levels of fatigue than those on the day shift, who slept an average of 5.7 hours daily.

The study appears in the May issue of the journal Archives of Surgery.

The finding that residents suffer fatigue "during certain periods is not startling, but its pervasiveness is a finding we simply cannot avoid and may have paid lip service to in the past. It is unlikely that the data in this study will be refuted," Dr. Thomas Tracy Jr., of Hasbro Children's Hospital and Brown University in Providence, R.I., wrote in an accompanying editorial.

-- Robert Preidt MedicalNewsCopyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved. SOURCE: Archives of Surgery, news release, May 21, 2012



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Surgical Residents Often Fatigued, Study Confirms

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THURSDAY, May 24 (HealthDay News) -- Fatigue is a common problem among surgery residents, a small, new study finds.

A growing body of evidence suggests that fatigue may play a major role in medical errors, said Dr. Frank McCormick, of the Harvard Orthopaedic Combined Residency Program and Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, and colleagues.

Their study included 27 orthopedic surgery residents who slept an average of 5.3 hours a day, with average individual amounts of sleep ranging from 2.8 hours to 7.2 hours.

Overall, the residents were functioning at less than 80 percent mental effectiveness due to fatigue during an average of 48 percent of their time awake. They also were functioning at less than 70 percent mental effectiveness due to fatigue for an average of 27 percent of their time awake.

Residents on the night shift slept an average of 5.1 hours daily and had higher levels of fatigue than those on the day shift, who slept an average of 5.7 hours daily.

The study appears in the May issue of the journal Archives of Surgery.

The finding that residents suffer fatigue "during certain periods is not startling, but its pervasiveness is a finding we simply cannot avoid and may have paid lip service to in the past. It is unlikely that the data in this study will be refuted," Dr. Thomas Tracy Jr., of Hasbro Children's Hospital and Brown University in Providence, R.I., wrote in an accompanying editorial.

-- Robert Preidt MedicalNewsCopyright © 2012 HealthDay. All rights reserved. SOURCE: Archives of Surgery, news release, May 21, 2012



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Fringe — Episode 20 (Season 4): “Worlds Apart”

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Another episode of Fringe, more Cortexiphan Kids (haven’t they all died by now?) and another change to the universal status quo

Fringe #418

The Plot: Just as the Fringe Teams from both universes are meeting to discuss Walter’s thoughts about David Robert Jones’ master plan, a series of twenty-seven earthquakes occur across the world – both worlds, actually – at precisely the same time. Walter determines that Jones has somehow set off these earthquakes to adjust the underlying frequencies of both universes to bring them together in an attempt to recreate the Big Bang. The team suspects that he’s using amphilicite, but they quickly discover he’s actually using some of the children dosed with Cortexiphan by Walter years ago. They capture one of the Cortexiphan Kids (this sounds like a Saturday morning cartoon about crime solving kids sponsored by a pharmaceutical company) and learn that Jones has told them they are fighting a war against the other universe. With only an hour left before the next, and cataclysmic, series of earthquakes, the teams decide their only option is to shut down The Machine and separate the universes. Everyone says their goodbye to their counterpart – Peter stays in our universe and Lincoln stays in theirs – and the machine is stopped and the bridge between the two universes disappears.

Fringe #418

1. The Easy Way Out
Early in the episode, Olivia says the only option is to destroy the bridge. Certainly there are plenty of other options. Just off the top of my head: kill Jones, kill or otherwise stop the Cortexiphan Kids, or do something to increase the integrity of the universe. Shutting down The Machine is the easiest option, but hardly the only one.

2. Needs A Band-Aid
Why, once the bridge is destroyed, would the other universe no longer be in danger from the Fringe events they suffered since Walter’s original breach? (Other than the writers trying to soften the blow of all but abandoning them.)

3. Geocentrism For The Win
Apparently Ptolemy was right, and the Earth is the center of the universe(s).

4. Common Sense
With all the issues with the Cortexiphan kids in the past, you’d think they’d be kept under surveillance. Especially since we’ve learned Jones has been playing with the stuff..

5. No Bridge, But Other Fords Remain
It’s not like Jones has ever needed the bridge to cross over (though it may have helped the Cortexiphan Kids in their part).

6. A Surefire Money Maker
If ever end up in the world of Fringe, I’m going to invest in empty warehouses.

7. Alternotes
FringeNo rainbows.

Fringe #417

The re-separation of the Universes was well done, but the rest of the episode was just OK. The Fringe Doomsday Clock remains at 11:54.

Fringe Doomsday Clock

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Fringe — Episode 20 (Season 4): “Worlds Apart”

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Another episode of Fringe, more Cortexiphan Kids (haven’t they all died by now?) and another change to the universal status quo

Fringe #418

The Plot: Just as the Fringe Teams from both universes are meeting to discuss Walter’s thoughts about David Robert Jones’ master plan, a series of twenty-seven earthquakes occur across the world – both worlds, actually – at precisely the same time. Walter determines that Jones has somehow set off these earthquakes to adjust the underlying frequencies of both universes to bring them together in an attempt to recreate the Big Bang. The team suspects that he’s using amphilicite, but they quickly discover he’s actually using some of the children dosed with Cortexiphan by Walter years ago. They capture one of the Cortexiphan Kids (this sounds like a Saturday morning cartoon about crime solving kids sponsored by a pharmaceutical company) and learn that Jones has told them they are fighting a war against the other universe. With only an hour left before the next, and cataclysmic, series of earthquakes, the teams decide their only option is to shut down The Machine and separate the universes. Everyone says their goodbye to their counterpart – Peter stays in our universe and Lincoln stays in theirs – and the machine is stopped and the bridge between the two universes disappears.

Fringe #418

1. The Easy Way Out
Early in the episode, Olivia says the only option is to destroy the bridge. Certainly there are plenty of other options. Just off the top of my head: kill Jones, kill or otherwise stop the Cortexiphan Kids, or do something to increase the integrity of the universe. Shutting down The Machine is the easiest option, but hardly the only one.

2. Needs A Band-Aid
Why, once the bridge is destroyed, would the other universe no longer be in danger from the Fringe events they suffered since Walter’s original breach? (Other than the writers trying to soften the blow of all but abandoning them.)

3. Geocentrism For The Win
Apparently Ptolemy was right, and the Earth is the center of the universe(s).

4. Common Sense
With all the issues with the Cortexiphan kids in the past, you’d think they’d be kept under surveillance. Especially since we’ve learned Jones has been playing with the stuff..

5. No Bridge, But Other Fords Remain
It’s not like Jones has ever needed the bridge to cross over (though it may have helped the Cortexiphan Kids in their part).

6. A Surefire Money Maker
If ever end up in the world of Fringe, I’m going to invest in empty warehouses.

7. Alternotes
FringeNo rainbows.

Fringe #417

The re-separation of the Universes was well done, but the rest of the episode was just OK. The Fringe Doomsday Clock remains at 11:54.

Fringe Doomsday Clock

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