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Your employees have devoted their lives to caring for others, but unfortunately, they often aren't very good at taking care of their own health. They may be sedentary, or obese, or they have undiagnosed hypertension or high cholesterol. Those health risk factors equate to rising medical costs and a greater risk of injury.
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Treatment with a tumor necrosis factor (TNF) alpha blocker may help keep workers with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) employed, at least those with disease duration of 10 years or less, says a new study.
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With evidence mounting of links between serious medical conditions and night shift work, you should evaluate your shift work policies and practices to make sure they adhere to recommended best practices, such as minimizing schedule disruptions, says Robert Emery, DrPH, assistant vice president for safety, health, environment, and risk management at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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A cancer management program helps Great-West Healthcare increase the quality of life and reduce the cost of care for people with cancer by providing support throughout the diagnosis and treatment process for patients and their family members.
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It's not unusual for Medicaid recipients to walk into one of WellPoint's community resource centers and ask for help in getting an appointment with a provider, arranging transportation or child care for a medical appointment, or to find out information about a chronic condition.
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Working from her Chicago home, Susan Moore, RN, NP, uses her expertise gained from years as an oncology nurse practitioner to help cancer patients and their family members explore treatment options, advocate for them through the continuum of cancer care, and support them whenever they have a question or a concern.
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Faced with a complex, difficult-to-negotiate health care system, multiple providers, and myriad treatment options, many health care consumers are looking for somewhere to turn, and that means opportunities for case managers, says Catherine M. Mullahy, RN, BS, CRRN, CCM.
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"There are about 19 million new cases of sexually transmitted infectious diseases each year in the United States, and they don't just happen to people who are promiscuous or reckless. They can and do happen to anyone.
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When a Boston, MA, research team decided to study HIV/AIDS prevention among the mentally ill, a group that is particularly vulnerable to infection with the disease, they had to ensure their research volunteers were recruited with appropriate privacy safeguards and thoroughly understood their research participation.
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Videography can be a useful data collection tool in research, giving researchers access to information records of events, subtle non-verbal cues that can't be elicited any other way.
