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Cyber Criminals Increase Damaging Attacks Against Healthcare Organizations
‘Ransomware’ is latest threat.
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Mumps Outbreaks Widely Reported
Given the current outbreaks of mumps in the U.S. and the similar surge in measles the last few years, the last thing employee health professionals need is people avoiding the MMR vaccine and not immunizing their children.
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Tuberculosis Proving Difficult to Reduce in U.S.
With the recent commemoration of World TB Day, the CDC reported that tuberculosis continues to decline in the United States, but not on a pace to reach the goal of tuberculosis eradication.
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The Ethical Quandary of Moral Distress
Clinicians need to cultivate “moral efficacy” — the ability to recognize, deliberate, and act in ways that are aligned with their personal and professional ethical standards.
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Expect Zika Return, Reinforce HCW Safety
Employee health professionals should prepare for the return of Zika virus, as the CDC expects the mosquito-borne infection threat to return to the U.S. as the warmer months arrive.
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Canada Faces a Surge in Healthcare Violence
While OSHA continues to promulgate a violence prevention regulation, our neighbors to the north are dealing with a similar problem of threatened healthcare workers.
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Training for Toxic Work Culture Should Start in Nursing School
While often seen as separate and disturbingly distinct, incivility, bullying, and violence in healthcare are actually connected across a common culture of toxicity.
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FDA Greenlights First Drug for Primary Progressive MS
Advocates called it “a real game changer.”
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Report: Opioid Misuse Fuels Rise in Heroin Addiction
New data show huge increase in drug dependence among white, low-income Americans over past decade.
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Ventricular Tachycardia, Supraventricular Tachycardia With Right Bundle Branch Block, or Something Else?