Internet may increase risk of STDs

Long working hours may increase risk of coronary heart disease.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the association between long working hours and risk of coronary heart disease (CHD) estimated by Framingham risk score (FRS) in Korean adults. METHODS This study evaluated adult participants in Korean National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey IV (2007-2009). After inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied, the final sample size for this study model was 8,350. ...

Implementing New Regulation Promotes Health but May Increase Inequality

Cocaine may Increase Risk for Cognitive Problems in HIV

Why Your EHR May Increase Malpractice Liability Risk

One of his key recommendations is to conduct your own EHR selection process. In other words, don’t choose the EHR a hospital or larger health system is pressuring you to select, choose the EHR that is best for your practice and your patients. “The theme is that you’ve got to basically go toe-to-toe with these guys and say, ‘I’ve got to protect the integrity of the clinical content ...,’” said S...

Diversification in Financial Networks May Increase Systemic Risk

It has been pointed out in the macroeconomics and financial risk literature that risk-sharing by diversification in a financial network may increase the systemic risk. This means roughly that while individual agents in the network, for example banks, perceive their risk of default or insolvency decrease as a result of cooperation, the overall risk, that is, the risk that several agents may defa...