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by Deborah Lechner | December 1, 2016 at 6:01 am Work injuries can be expensive: Not only are companies faced with the direct costs of injury treatment and recovery, but indirect costs, including hiring and training replacement employees, investigating accidents, implementing corrective measures, repairing damaged equipment, and dealing with lost productivity, lower employee morale and absenteeism, can add up quickly. According to the Occupational Safety and…

Though bivariate relationships between childhood obesity, physical activity, friendships and television viewing are well documented, empirical assessment of the extent to which links between obesity and television may be mediated by these factors is scarce. This study examines the possibility that time with friends and physical activity are potential mechanisms linking overweight/obesity to television viewing in youth. Data were drawn from children ages 10-18 years old…

Assess patient health problems and needs, develop and implement nursing care plans, and maintain medical records. Administer nursing care to ill, injured, convalescent, or disabled patients. May advise patients on health maintenance and disease prevention or provide case management. Licensing or registration required. Sample of reported job titles: Charge Nurse, Director of Nursing (DON), Emergency Department RN (Emergency Department Registered Nurse), Oncology RN (Oncology Registered Nurse)…

Your pet can’t talk, so we have to look! Why? Because we believe strongly in prevention being better than cure. We humans can moan and groan and point and complain at the earliest sign of a medical problem. Not so with animals. If we don’t look our pets over regularly, we may miss these subtle early signs of disease and rob ourselves of the chance of early intervention. All too often disease is well advanced before we even notice. This is especially true…

Mammography (also called mastography) is the process of using low-energy X-rays (usually around 30 kVp ) to examine the human breast for diagnosis and screening. The goal of mammography is the early detection of breast cancer , typically through detection of characteristic masses or microcalcifications . Like all X-rays, mammograms use doses of ionizing radiation to create images. These images are then analyzed for any abnormal…

"Tell me I look sexy with my IUD strings pushed back."

If you're anything like me, you probably somehow manage to forget your period is coming each month, like clockwork. It's a never-ending surprise, and what's worse, you're never prepared. The first day of your period is usually characterized by a pai

Even after the implosion of Outcome Health painted a shroud of distrust over the entire point of care media industry, the demand for in-office media solutions targeting both patients and physicians far exceeds the supply. Groups such as PoC3 have been established to help police ethical best practices and standards, and companies such as PlaceBridge have been launched to provide independent third-party auditing and verification for…

By Karin M. Ouchida and Mark S. Lachs Dr. Robert N. Butler coined the term ageism in 1968 and spent his career trying to eradicate it. Unfortunately, despite his many accomplishments, “systematic stereotyping and discrimination against people because they are old” still occurs today (Achenbaum, 2013). The healthcare community is not immune to the deleterious effects of ageism. It permeates the attitudes of medical providers, the…

Aside from eroding the invaluable doctor-patient relationship by monopolizing the clinician’s time for data entry, fragmenting access between institutions when patient sharing is commonplace and functioning more as a billing platform than a therapeutic asset, electronic medical records (EMRs) have not lived up to their promise. Though the concept seems like a panacea, patients and doctors don’t live in a theoretical world. They live in a…