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When Minneapolis, MN-based General Mills surveyed employees about wellness, they got some good news. "We were quite surprised by finding that employees were very positive, and in fact, wanted more health and fitness activities and events," says Tim Crimmins, MD, vice president of Health, Safety and Environment.
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Susan A. Randolph, MSN, RN, COHN-S, FAAOHN, clinical assistant professor of the Occupational Health Nursing Program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, says that you should plan occupational health programs and services with these factors in mind:
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Kathleen Liever, an Employment Law Associate at Fowler White Boggs in Tampa, FL, says that you should take these steps now to comply with the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) of 2008:
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Do some health care workers infected with HIV or hepatitis B or C pose a risk to their patients? Should they be restricted from performing exposure-prone procedures?
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Spinal cord sarcoidosis is difficult to diagnose and may be confused with multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica. Treatment response is variable.
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Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the brain may be a promising new therapy for the treatment of chronic tinnitus.
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The presence of conjugate eye deviation as measured by CT or MRI in acute stroke patients predicts visuo-spatial neglect. Prismatic therapy produces a cross-modality improvement in left-sided auditory extinction in patients with chronic right-sided stroke.
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This prospective case series reports on the efficacy and safety of levetiracetam in central nervous system gliomas.
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This large retrospective study reports an overall poor prognosis for patients with GBM, but treatment was not "state-of-the-art."
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Prabhakaran S, et al. Symptomatic intracerebral hemorrhage among eligible warfarin-treated patients receiving intravenous tissue plasminogen activator for acute ischemic stroke. Arch Neurol 2010;67: (doi:10.1001/archneurol.2010.25).
