This study examines the level of health care coverage and health care concerns among a sample of 222 West Central Wisconsin residents. More than 68% of respondents felt that Wisconsin health care has at least major problems, and only 2.7% felt that there were no problems. Approximately 60% were extremely or very worried about not being able to afford health care services, whereas more than 70% ...

This study approached the health problems which were involved with stress using Self reporting Questionnaires (SRQ-20) in order to evaluate mental disorders. The sample was constituted of 258 trucker drivers in Brazilian roadway (37,5±10,0 years old, 55% drink alcohol, 37% with arterial hypertension e 57% used drugs to get alert). The drivers informed they were nervous, tense and worried (56%),...

The measles, mumps, and rubel-la vaccine may not be as great a bogeyman as recent media coverage suggests. Research by the market research organisation MORI shows that people worry more about biological weapons, the genetic modification of food and animals, bovine spongiform encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, organ transplants from animals to humans, gene therapy, and health problems...

The Canadian Armed Forces, which has already been forced to take steps to retain its highly trained pilots because of stiff competition from civilian airlines, is now fighting to keep its uniformed family physicians. The decline in retention is so serious the military has been forced to eye new strategies to recruit and retain medical officers. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Flaman, second-in-command...

The IEEE 802.11 standard includes an optional encryption capability, the Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) however, WEP is vulnerable to attack and can easily be broken, therefore WEP was recently temporarily supplemented with Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) which offers improvements over WEP while a newer, more secure protocol 802.11i is developed. However, China has now introduced a new security pr...