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Prolonged exposure to work-related stress thought to be related to certain cancers. First study on the link between cancer and work-related stress perceived by men throughout their working lifetime

Source:Institut national de la recherche scientifique – INRS Summary: For men, prolonged exposure to work-related stress has been linked to an increased likelihood of lung, colon, rectal, and stomach cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma. This is the first study to assess the link between cancer and work-related stress perceived by men throughout their working life. For men, prolonged exposure to work-related stress has been linked to an increased likelihood of lung, colon, rectal, and stomach c...Read More

Counseling, antidepressants change personality (for the better), team reports

Date: January 22, 2017 Source: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Summary:A review of 207 studies involving more than 20,000 people found that those who engaged in therapeutic interventions were, on average, significantly less neurotic and a bit more extraverted after the interventions than they were beforehand A review of 207 studies involving more than 20,000 people found that those who engaged in therapeutic interventions were, on average, significantly less neurotic and a bit more ex...Read More

Emergency Room Doctors May Impact Patients’ Opioid Use

Source: Kaiser Health News Which doctor a person happens to see at a local emergency room can have long-term consequences when it comes to opioid use. Within the same hospital, some doctors are three times more likely to prescribe an opioid than other doctors, and patients treated by high-prescribing doctors are more likely to become long-term opioid users, according to a study published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine. “Physicians are just doing things all over the map,&#...Read More