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March 5, 2007
A new study sets expands knowledge of risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome and suggests ways the painful condition can be avoided
March 2, 2007
Survey the research about women and occupational risk factors and prepare for more questions than answers. The innate complexities of the subject confound efforts to produce unassailable evidence. Part II of series
March 2, 2007
Overuse of the hand and wrist has long been blamed for carpal tunnel syndrome. Not so, says American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
February 26, 2007
Can new research persuade employers that allowing - even encouraging - employees to nap at work makes sound ergonomic sense? That remains to be seen.
February 23, 2007
Virginia legislators have approved a bill banning teens from using a cell phone while driving. Is it a first step or the last towards ridding the state's roads of a recognized menace to safety.
February 21, 2007
Considerable research into the question of a gender differential in work-related MSDs has not provided the kind of evidence that wraps up the debate. It continues. First in a two-part series on women, MSDs and the workplace.
February 19, 2007
To help out the British economy, the government wants more older people in the workforce. Answering the call could come at a price for women.
February 16, 2007
A new British study, linking musculoskeletal disorders to a woman's menstrual cycle, contributes to the fund of knowledge about gender differences in the workplace.
February 14, 2007
Infections lie in wait for patients in hospitals, and many die from them. We have the science to make patients safer, so why aren