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No link between night shift work and breast cancer

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Working night shifts is not linked to an increased risk of breast cancer, a major prospective UK analysis has found. In a new 10-year...

Pressure at work increases weight gain risk in women

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Heavy pressures at work seem to predispose women to weight gain, irrespective of whether they have received an academic education. This is shown in...

Sit-stand office desks appear to boost performance, psychological health

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Sit-stand workstations that allow employees to stand, as well as sit, while working on a computer reduce daily sitting time and appear to have...

For prison employees, its on par to being in a war zone

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Prison employees experience Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) on par with Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans and higher than police officers, a small study from a...

The Physical Activity Paradox: Highly physical work increases early death risk

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Men with highly physical jobs appear to have a significantly higher risk of early death compared with men who have largely inactive jobs, suggests...

Open access database documents toxic agents

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Millions of pages of internal corporate and trade association documents relating to the introduction of new products and chemicals into the workplace and commerce...

Low rates of infection for workers exposed to HCV and HIV

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Occupational exposure to hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HIV on the part of health care workers rarely leads to infection. Poz reports that researchers...

Physically demanding jobs and shifts affect women's ability to conceive

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A physically demanding job or work schedules outside normal office hours may lower a woman’s ability to conceive, suggests research. Heavy lifting at work...

Silica dust much worse in small-scale mining

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informalmineResearch in Tanzania shows that exposure to silica is more than two hundred times greater in small-scale artisanal mines than in larger mines.

Shift work could increase risk of Type 2 diabetes

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Type 2 diabetes is more common in people who work shifts. BBC News reports that this is according to the findings of a large...

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