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Profiles in Wellness: Tom Jackson Makes a Difference
When an employee reports an injury or illness, the astute employee health professional is well aware that many other life stresses and work pressures may be simmering just beneath the surface.
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AOHP Not in Favor of OSHA Violence Regulation as Proposed
While emphasizing its support for violence prevention programs to protect healthcare workers, one of the nation’s leading occupational health groups says it does not support promulgation of a new standard by OSHA as currently outlined.
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NIOSH Network Provides Local Solutions to a National Problem
The federal Occupational Health Safety Network is expanding exponentially. With the recent addition of two new reporting categories for needlesticks and blood exposures, a national reporting system that touts local interventions is on the horizon.
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The Potential Long-term Payoff of Good Initial Diabetes Control
The results of a recent study encourage clinicians to pursue the best control of type 2 diabetes they can attain without incurring significant adverse events.
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Dietary Omega-3 Fatty Acids Inversely Associated with Diabetic Retinopathy
It remains to be determined whether this isolated ingredient from fish, when taken as a single-entity intervention, will provide similar benefits.
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The Best BP for High-risk Hypertension Patients
The debate continues.
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Identification of Pneumococcal Pneumonia
There is no reason to consider urine antigen testing as indicative of less pneumonia lethality.
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Rheumatoid Arthritis Disease Activity and Calprotectin Levels
Calprotectin may provide a metric for confirmation of optimized control of rheumatoid arthritis, providing additional insight into disease activity beyond clinical symptoms alone.
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Minimizing Risk of NSAID-associated Recurrent Gastrointestinal Bleeding
Persons who have experienced an NSAID-related upper gastrointestinal bleed would be better served by taking celecoxib than naproxen if continuation of NSAID treatment is required.
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Infection Preventionists Could Be Helpful to ASCs’ Infection Control Efforts
New reports show that infection prevention efforts at healthcare organizations are resulting in huge declines in healthcare-acquired conditions.