Health Workers May Experience Costly Dislocation As Health Spending Growth Slows
... million workers--almost one in ten private sector employees in the United States--work to produce health services. Between 1988 and 1996, private health sector employment grew at a 3.7% average annual rate, substantially faster than the 1.6% annual growth in jobs in the private non-farm economy as a whole. Bu...National Office Of Drug Safety Is Needed, Experts Say In JAMA
...write. They observe that the FDA has 1,400 employees working on approving newdrugs, but only 52 monitor the safety of 5,000 drugs already in the pharmaciesor available over the counter. They noted that the agency's Division ofPharmacovigilance and Epidemiology has only seven physicians and oneepidemiol...... bad thing. "Some companies are encouraging employees to jump on an illness sooner,rather than later," says Dirsmith. "Especially at firms where there is lowturnover, there is a growing humanitarian concern for the employee." But the monetization of medicine brings with it some negatives that t...Future Workers Will Receive MSAs
...rregular health insurance but, instead, will offer employees medical allowances. Whatever is not spent on health care will be saved by employees for retirement,predict two Cornell University heath-care experts. These so-called medical savings ac...Canada's Most Powerful Supercomputer Now At Sick Kids
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...communities to which inmates are released andwhere employees live and work. As part of World TB Day, a training course for health care staff in Californiastate prisons and local health departments will be offered in Fresno on March 24and 25. In conjunction with this event, a press conference will be held to d...Disabilities Don't Raise Insurance Costs
...ility insurance costs rarely rise because ofhiring employees with disabilities, but that attitudinal stereotype...adapt training and working materials toaccommodate employees with disabilities; a continuing barrier for employees with disabilities is supervisors'lack of kno...Cordis Cardiology Introduces The MINI Crown Stent
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...o determinehow much money employees needed after they retired," he said. "But increasingly employers have shifted awayfrom that toward individually managed retirement savings accounts. If people are going to man...Depression costs UK economy 2 billion a year, conference will be told
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...me in each community but local young gay men, both employees and volunteers, developed outreach and social activities that would best carry the message to young men within their respective settings. "By local young gay men having a sense of ownership of the program, there was an increased motivation to spre...Eastman gives Clemson University $38 million fiber technology
...d in Kingsport, Tenn., it has approximately 15,000 employees in 30 countries and had 1998 sales of $4.48 billion....New study finds multiple myeloma linked to radiation exposures of nuclear workers
...earchers, analyzed radiation exposures among plant employees and compared them to health records. Older workers with cumulative radiation doses of five rem or more were almost three-and-a-half times more likely to die from multiple myeloma than workers at the same plants whose cumulative exposures were less th...Employers are primary source of health plan information
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