Health and Fitness for Monday March 7, 2011

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Doctors, medical staff vote to join union LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Medical professionals -- about 80 physicians, dentists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants -- say they voted to unionize 13 California clinics. Dr. Wendy Fields, a pediatrician who voted in favor of the union, said the medical professionals, who work at the clinics of Northeast Valley Health Corp., become part of the Union of American Physicians and Dentists. Fields said some of the issues that led to the vote favoring the union involved scheduling, the absence of regular pay increases and a lack of responsiveness on the part of the clinics' administration. The union said some estimates showed the clinics in the San Fernando and Santa Clarita Valleys were overbooking schedules by up to 40 percent while tax documents reveal that in seven of the last eight years, the company had annual revenue increases ranging from 6.5 percent to more than 23 percent. "For years we've felt like Northeast Valley Health Corp. didn't listen to our concerns," Fields said in a statement. "Organizing with an experienced union like UAPD has helped us articulate our issues and start on the process of getting them resolved." The 13 accredited healthcare sites -- including one mobile clinic and three school-based centers, one pharmacy and two dental offices -- serves 60,000 community members, Northeast Valley Health Corp. said. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Body language: Anger read as masculine LOS ANGELES (UPI) -- Body language conveying anger is judged as masculine, while body language denoting sadness is judged feminine, U.S. and Scottish researchers say. Lead author Kerri Johnson, an assistant professor of communication studies and psychology at University of California at Los Angeles, and colleagues at the University of Glasgow videotaped 30 male and female actors throwing baseballs in such a manner as to convey a range of emotions, including anger and sadness. Observers were asked to watch videotapes -- that disguised the actors' sex -- and make judgments about the throwers' emotions and gender. Even though observers were shown an equal number of male and female actors displaying each emotion, they judged "sad" throws to be female about 60 percent of the time and "angry" throws to be male more than 70 percent of the time, Johnson said. "Even when observers received minimal information, they were able to discern the thrower's emotion," Johnson said in a statement. "The findings fit with a growing body of work that shows some 'snap' judgments are highly accurate. But when it comes to deciding whether the actors were male or female, judgments tended to be less accurate, and that may be because perceptions are colored by longstanding stereotypes about masculine and feminine behavior." The findings are published in the journal Cognition. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Depression may last after miscarriage ROCHESTER, N.Y. (UPI) -- An estimated 1 million U.S. women miscarry annually and many experience depression and anxiety for years afterwards, U.S. researchers suggest. Lead researcher Emma Robertson Blackmore, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Rochester Medical Center and colleagues studied 13,133 pregnant women in Britain taking part in a long-term study, the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children. The women were asked about miscarriages and stillbirths and they were assessed for symptoms of depression and anxiety twice during their pregnancy and four times after giving birth. Twenty-one percent reported having one or more previous miscarriages, while 108 reported having one previous stillbirth and three women had two previous stillbirths. "We found no evidence that affective symptoms associated with previous prenatal loss resolve with the birth of a healthy child," Blackmore said in a statement. "Rather, previous prenatal loss showed a persisting prediction of depressive and anxiety symptoms well after what would conventionally be defined as the postnatal period." The study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, found of the women who had one miscarriage or stillbirth before giving birth to a healthy child almost 13 percent still had symptoms of depression 33 months after the birth and of those with two previous losses, almost 19 percent had symptoms of depression 33 months after the birth of a healthy child. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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Shopping carts haul fecal bacteria TUSCON, Ariz. (UPI) -- Bacteria found on U.S. store shopping carts may be worse than some supermarket restrooms, a U.S. researcher says. In a study funded by the Clorox Co., Charles Gerba and colleagues at the University of Arizona in Tuscon swabbed shopping cart handles in four states looking for bacterial and of 85 carts examined, 72 percent were positive for fecal bacteria. In one group of 36 shopping carts examined more closely, 50 percent had E.coli and a host of other types of bacteria, Gerba says. "That's more than you find in a supermarket's restroom," lead researcher Charles Gerba, a professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, told MSNBC. "That's because they use disinfecting cleaners in the restrooms. Nobody routinely cleans and disinfects shopping carts." To reduce the amount of bacteria, Gerba recommends shopping carts be wiped down with disinfectant. Copyright 2011 by United Press International
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