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Search results for "chronic depression" ...
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Nevadans live hard, risk lives
"Using mortality data from the Centers for Disease Control, a Sun analysis found that Nevadans and Clark County residents die younger and at higher rates of suicide, substance abuse and certain chronic illnesses compared with the rates nationally and in other large counties."
Tags: Nevada; death rates; suicide; depression; health; statistics; CAR; mortality data
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The Toxic Workplace: Railroads, Solvents and Sickness
A Courier-Journal investigative series reveals "how, despite medical warnings, the railroad industry in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s allowed the heavy and largely unprotected use of chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents in their locomotive maintenance shops; how railroads resisted government inspections for almost a decade when solvent use was perhaps its highest and that more than 600 railroaders across the country have since then been diagnosed with permanent brain damage that their doctors blame on the chemicals." The reporters have found evidence that the railroad industry was aware of the danger of toxic chemicals as far back as the 1960s but some companies continued to use them until mid-1990s. CSX Transportation, the largest railroad in the eastern part of the country has so far paid up to $35 in legal settlements, the Courier-Journal reports.
Tags: pollution; occupational safety; OSHA; environment; ozone layer; labor; unions; courts; Department of Health and Human Services; encephalopathy; dementia; chronic depression; medicine