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Following what appeared to be a growth year in the occupational health field, readers of Occupational Health Management report that they saw fewer new nurses coming to work for their employers in the past year. The field, however, did see a slight increase in the number of men.
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Just when the business world is coming back around to the idea of on-site corporate medical offices, the supply of physicians specializing in occupational health may be choking itself out.
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Mandatory influenza vaccination for health care workers is not justified says the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) in a new position statement.
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The percentage of businesses offering health insurance to their workers has declined steadily over the last five years, as the cost of providing coverage continues to outpace inflation and wage growth.
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In a high-containment laboratory along Clifton Road in Atlanta last summer, a mouse became the first living thing to inhale the 1918 pandemic influenza virus since it killed millions of people and vanished from the face of the earth. Predictably, it died.
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Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are commonly encountered in the emergency department (ED), and are an important consideration in the evaluation and management of every patient.
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A consumer survey indicates perspective patients are ready to be empowered with medical information and will use infection rate data in selecting a hospital system, an epidemiologist reports.
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This study ran from November 2000 to May 2002, recruited 611 patients from 58 centers predominantly from Europe, and set out to compare the efficacy and safety of these drugs for treating febrile, neutropenic patients with cancer and either proven or suspected infection due to Gram-positive bacteria in a prospective, blinded randomized controlled trial.
