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Night shift work linked to diabetes

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A story wrote by Deborah Kotz  ,was published at the Boston Globe today, discusses the association between night shifts and diabetes. Deborah wrote:

Night shift work has long been associated with a string of health problems such as sleep disorders and an increased risk of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease. In [...]

Tuskegee Study, on "Bad Blood" People

As a health professional or health student you need to know a minimum of the health terminology and historical events as well as ongoing debates. For example you have to know the differences between reliability and validity, sensitivity and specificity, bias and confounding factors, also you must be able to explain the John Snow approach to [...]

Ebola a hemorrhagic fever or a music band

CDC describes Ebola as a hemorrhagic fever (Ebola HF) that is a severe, often-fatal disease in humans and nonhuman primates (monkeys, gorillas, and chimpanzees) that has appeared sporadically since its initial recognition in 1976.The disease is caused by infection with Ebola virus, named after a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire) in [...]