For how we live.
A proposed rule would push several compliance dates under the 2024 trichloroethylene risk rule to 31 December 2027, giving processors and refrigerant makers more time to drop the solvent. Comments close 13 November.
Standing up every half hour is common desk advice. A meta-analysis of seven trials found brief standing breaks trim post-meal glucose a little, but short light-walking breaks cut both glucose and insulin far more.
Carpal tunnel syndrome is median-nerve compression at the wrist. Cochrane reviews find steroid injections clearly help for about a month, while surgery beats non-surgical care at three and six months.
Walking pads promise movement without leaving your desk. A trial found walking while working slowed typing but did not harm cognition; a second found hourly walking cut post-meal glucose and blood pressure.
Yes — the hormones released under stress push glucose up, which is why steroids and severe illness cause hyperglycaemia. Whether everyday stress raises long-term diabetes risk is a smaller, murkier effect.
The advice to look 20 feet away for 20 seconds every 20 minutes is everywhere. A two-week trial in symptomatic computer users found it cut eye-strain and dry-eye symptoms, but changed no measurable sign of eye health.
A harmonised meta-analysis of over a million adults found 60 to 75 minutes of daily moderate activity erased the extra death risk tied to sitting more than eight hours. The catch is how much activity that is.
WHO and ILO estimate long hours caused 745,000 deaths in one year. The effect is real but modest per person, and clearest for stroke rather than heart disease.
The federal program enrols nearly 140,000 responders and survivors, most certified for a 9/11-related illness. Cohort data show a heavy, still-growing burden — and hint the program itself lowers mortality.
Registry and responder cohorts document persistent PTSD and depression, a symptom peak more than a decade after the attacks, and a burden that compounds with chronic physical illness.
Twenty-five years of cohort data show the alkaline dust caused an acute cough syndrome and a real, largely permanent drop in lung function, graded by how much each person breathed.
Registries show a real but narrow signal: a few cancers, led by prostate and thyroid, run high in 9/11 responders, while overall cancer incidence sits at or below the rate expected.
In a draft TSCA evaluation open for comment until 3 November, EPA preliminarily found the industrial solvent poses unreasonable risk to health. IARC classifies it as a Group 1 human carcinogen.
A case-crossover study in Kern County found the odds of coccidioidomycosis were about 12.5% higher in the 90 days after a new well was developed within 5 km of home.
A Swiss study tracking people who switched to remote work found no measurable change across 13 health outcomes. A review of pandemic homeworking found the relationship varies so much that no consensus emerged.
Thirty-two thousand mid-Ohio Valley residents with high PFOA exposure were tracked through 2021. Of 22 causes of death examined, one trend was significant and the authors themselves urge caution.
WHO and ILO estimate about 17% of workers face hazardous noise. Their review of whether it causes heart disease found only low-certainty signals — one for heart-attack incidence, little for stroke or blood pressure.
A regional review finds heat-protection for outdoor workers still leans on limiting work hours, while separate papers link chronic heat exposure among Gulf migrant labourers to a non-traditional form of kidney disease.
Leisure exercise reliably protects the heart. Physical activity done for a living shows mixed or even adverse associations — and some meta-analyses find higher mortality in men with the most physically demanding jobs.
WHO's ICD-11 lists burn-out, yet places it among reasons people contact health services, not among illnesses. It is defined strictly as a workplace phenomenon, which shapes who should be assessing it and how.
OSHA and NIOSH use different rules for how fast allowable exposure falls as sound gets louder. WHO's venue standard permits an average of 100 decibels. The headline 'one billion at risk' figure is a modelled range.
A Cochrane review found sit-stand desks reliably reduce workplace sitting, but graded the evidence low quality and could not tie it to better health. WHO backs cutting sedentary time but set no number.
The IARC calls night shift work probably carcinogenic. A 2026 meta-analysis of nurses shows why 'probably' is careful: the breast cancer signal appears only after decades, and shrinks to nothing once bias is corrected.
A 1,224-person biomonitoring study found four compounds only in firefighter serum. A separate 65-person pilot in Texas asked whether that matters for cognition, and got a partial answer.
Two national survey analyses find schedule unpredictability — not shift work itself — associated with insomnia symptoms, with a dose-response by how much advance notice a worker gets.
A year of wearable data from 76 subsistence farmers shows adaptation happening in real time. The women in the study had less room to slow down, and their strain readings show it.
A 43-year analysis at hourly resolution finds a 3.3% rise in average heat stress exposure duration across districts, with the change varying by time of day, season and region.