US businesses not prepared for aging workforce
...ges? Has the organization developed a business case for flexible work options? Do supervisors fully understand importance of flexible work options both to the business itself and to employee engagement? ...A new focus for health care reform -- realigning competition around patient value
...have to be zero sum. The authors make the positive case for realigning competition around patient value, a...g monitoring, and active disease management in the case of chronic conditions. Multiple specialties, services and even entities are involved in the cycle o...Research finds music training 'tunes' human auditory system
...whether enhancing the sound environment -- in this case with musical training -- will positively affect the way an individual encodes sound even at a level as basic as the brainstem," says Patrick Wong, primary author of "Musical Experience Shapes Human Brainstem Encoding of Linguistic Pitch Patterns." An...Patients should be alert for obesity surgery complication
...m four to 12 weeks after the surgery, although one case occurred 18 months later. Most patients (25) had vomiting as a risk factor. Many of the patients also had three symptoms commonly associated with the syndrome: confusion, lack of coordination and rapid, rhythmic eye movement. Several patients had oth...Obesity surgery can lead to memory loss, other problems
...ne to three months after the surgery, although one case occurred 18 months after surgery. The study reviewed the scientific literature for all reported cases of the syndrome occurring after obesity surgery. A total of 32 cases had been reported. Many of the people also had neurological symptoms that ar...New study cautions states on changes to Medicaid
...entry by: clarifying policies on reimbursement for case management; creating financial incentives based on the percentage of children receiving appropriate developmental screenings and follow up care; and providing guidance to states on quality improvement strategies that emphasize preventive and developm...Taking the wraps off drug safety data from clinical trials
...h/April 2007 issue of Health Affairs. "The Vioxx case and other drug safety cases have demonstrated the value of making these data available to researchers," said co-author Aaron Kesselheim, M.D., Department of Pharmacoepidemiology at BWH and an attorney. Currently, pharmaceutical manufacturers submit...Teenagers with retail, service jobs at risk of injury, robberies, sleep deprivation
...tion in some critical areas, such as what to do in case of robbery or how to deal with arguments or fights among coworkers. "Greater supervision and training in difficult situations that arise in retail and service sector jobs would really benefit these teens," Runyan said. "We need to remember that wor...Sunny days pose risk of 'flicker illness' for a few airlifted patients
A case report published in the current issue of the journ...n the January/March volume, cites several studies, case reports and historical examples related to photosensitive epilepsy, suggesting that the phenomenon i...Joint Principles of PC-MH released by organizations representing more than 300,000 physicians
...ce payments for face-to-face visits, and recognize case mix differences in the patient population being treated within the practice. In summary, ACP President Lynne M. Kirk, MD, FACP emphasized, "It is important to adequately support the time and systems required to assure that all who choose can receiv...Using morphine to hasten death is a myth, says doctor
...r in a letter to this week's BMJ. It follows the case of Kelly Taylor, a terminally ill woman who went to court earlier this month for the right to be sedated into unconsciousness by morphine, even though it will hasten her death. Mrs Taylor's request to use morphine to make her unconscious under the...Medicalize me: Experts look at how our perceptions of illness are shaped
...n countries decided to allow them too. Is it the case that our notions of illness are created by the pha...aceutical industrys advertising, or is it also the case that drug companies are reflecting societal expectations?, Metzl asks. Culture plays a large role in...Injection of 'skin filler' material appears to stimulate collagen production
...the researchers found that this appeared to be the case with stabilized hyaluronic acid. "To further investigate potential mechanisms for this filler's long-lasting cosmetic benefits, we assessed the biological response of skin to NASHA," the authors write. "We found that NASHA injections induce type 1 ...Tobacco companies obstructed science, history professor says
...sbestos and even the keeping of birds. Denying the case against tobacco was "closed," they called for more research as a tactic to delay regulation. Drawing from his experiences as an expert witness in tobacco litigation cases, Proctor says that industry lawyers often claim that "government propaganda,"...Physicists set 'speed limit' for future superconducting magnet
...erated at the same temperature as is presently the case for magnets made with niobium -- 4 degrees Kelvin -- and also achieve the stable state necessary for a 30 Tesla magnet." The findings will be published online Feb. 11 by the journal Nature Physics. "We are exploring nature's limitations, and our ...SCAI expert panel sets high standards for PCI without on-site cardiac surgical backup
...rating without on-site cardiac surgery: Maintain case volumes of at least 200 PCIs per year; Employ high...n 500 PCIs throughout their career, have an annual case volume of more than 100 PCIs, and meet national benchmarks for procedural success and complication r...Exercise has no effect on risk of knee osteoarthritis
... factors of the progression of knee OA. As was the case with the Felson study, they found three studies showing no strong evidence that regular exercise was related to progression of knee OA; Other studies found that sex, knee pain, quadriceps strength and knee injury were also not associated with progres...Inadequate communication reduces benefits of mammogram screening for black women
...ck women than for white women, particularly in the case of abnormal results," she said. "In addition to logistical difficulties associated with lack of notification, it is likely that communication problems are tied to cultural and social dynamics that should be addressed to minimize racial disparitie...Worldmapper draws attention to the world's health inequalities
...pper Poster 229) shows global malaria casesin this case Africa appears enormous. In a paper in PLoS Medicine, Professor Dorling describes why he and his colleagues launched the Worldmapper project ( http://www.worldmapper.org/ ). The project is a collaboration between researchers at the Social and Spa...Existing research supports metabolic syndrome link to cardiovascular disease
...vascular risk than men, it appears this is not the case when metabolic syndrome is present." Michaela Diamant, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of medicine at the Diabetes Center of the VU University Medical Center in The Netherlands, did not participate in the study but said it raises several questio...