2 out of 3 medical students do not know when to wash their hands
• Infections • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
Only 21 percent of surveyed medical students could identify five true and two false indications of when and when not to wash their hands…
Gender inequality persists in multitasking: study
• Gender: Female • • Gender: Male • Dec 01 11
Men may be helping more in the home but working women still do more multitasking in U.S. families than their partners and are finding…
Arsenic in apple and grape juice
• Nutrition and Food Safety • Dec 01 11
Ten percent of apple juices and grape juices have higher arsenic levels than are allowed in drinking water in the United States, according to…
Interethnic marriage between African and Native Americans produced many children
• Fertility and pregnancy • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
American Indians with African ancestry outdid ‘full bloods’ in reproductive terms in the early 1900s, despite the odds being against them, according to a…
Working moms multitask more and have worse time doing so than dads
• Gender: Female • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
Not only are working mothers multitasking more frequently than working fathers, but their multitasking experience is more negative as well, according to a new…
Food served in children’s hospitals rated largely unhealthy
• Food & Nutrition • • Public Health • Dec 01 11
Given the obesity epidemic among the nation’s young, one would hope that children’s hospitals would serve as a role model for healthy eating. But…