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Stay healthy this flu season

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Chuck Gerba, professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, speaks on ways to help the family avoid colds and other illness at home and work. A multistate study about germs in the workplace reveals that the average desktop was found to harbor more than 20,000 germs per square and five most bacteria-contaminated spots were telephones, desktops, water-fountain handles, microwave door handles, and keyboards.

Author: Schorr, Melissa
Publisher: MacDonald Communications
Publication Name: Working Mother
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0278-193X
Year: 2005
Prevention, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Communicable diseases, Disease transmission, Gerba, Chuck

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Get the best hospital care

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A number of precautions has to be taken in today's error-prone medical system. These precautions are avoiding staying overnight in hospitals, carrying out simple procedures in the outpatient surgery, carrying out multiple diagnostic tests on an outpatient basis, and make personal connections by asking names of the nurses and other staff.

Author: Schorr, Melissa
Publisher: MacDonald Communications
Publication Name: Working Mother
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0278-193X
Year: 2004
Evaluation, Hospitalization, Hospitals, Hospital care, Hospital services

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Your guide to breast health

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The president of American Cancer Society and director of university of Connecticut health center's cancer center Dr. Carolyn D. Runowicz discusses about the risk of getting breast cancer. She states that it would be better to go through a baseline mammogram to reduce the chances of getting breast cancer.

Author: Schorr, Melissa
Publisher: MacDonald Communications
Publication Name: Working Mother
Subject: Women's issues/gender studies
ISSN: 0278-193X
Year: 2005
Executive changes & profiles, Care and treatment, Officials and employees, Diagnosis, Risk factors, Interview, Breast cancer, American Cancer Society, Runowicz, Carolyn D.

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