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Symptoms and signs of chronic stress

(NaturalNews) The old saying, “Whatever doesn’t kill us, makes us stronger,” may not hold true when it comes to chronic stress. Stomach ulcers were the first disease linked to chronic stress. It took many more years of research to learn that many diseases and health problems are linked…

Even in nursing, no equal pay for women

By Lisa Rapaport (Reuters Health) – Even though nine out of 10 nurses are women, men in the profession earn higher salaries, and the pay gap has remained constant over the past quarter century, a study finds. The typical salary gap has consistently been about $5,000 even after adjusting for factors such as experience, education, work hours, clinical specialty, and marital and parental status, according to a report in JAMA,

Germanwings says had no problem with crashed plane before takeoff

Germanwings said it was unclear what caused its Airbus A320 aircraft to crash in the French Alps on Tuesday but that there had been no problems with the plane before takeoff. “There were no anomalies on the plane,” the Lufthansa unit’s Managing Director Thomas Winkelmann told journalists at a news conference on Tuesday, hours after the crash. He said Airbus delivered the plane to Lufthansa in 1991, after which it