The federal agency's new Strategic Framework on Multiple Chronic Conditions outlines a public/private collaboration to address the problem. Treating these people costs 66 percent of U.S. health care spending, according to HHS.
OSHA began its inspection June 10 at the company's worksite and found employees operating a forklift without wearing a seat belt, as well as wet floors in passageways, aisles, and laundry work areas.
The summit is open to the public and will focus on ways the federal government and others can continue to work together on management and control of bedbugs.
An issue of vital concern in any health care environment is the "health" of the system infrastructures that works behind the scenes. Like any engineered system, electrical power distribution systems cannot be designed and constructed to indefinitely operate 100 percent of the time. This paper provides basic considerations that should be taken into account for assessments of the electrical power distribution systems within health-care facilities, including code compliances, bonding and grounding issues, ground fault protection requirements, and surge protection needs.
Heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death, still accounted for nearly half (48 percent) of all deaths in 2008.
Incentive Federation Executive Director George Delta explained that upcoming tax reform and health care issues on the horizon for the 112th Congress that begins in January could provide a workable venue to promote the use of incentives as a means to reduce health care costs.
The 3rd edition contains more than 12,650 references and 2,500 recommendations—a comprehensive collection of evidence-based musculoskeletal medical recommendations—with supporting evidence levels and tables.
The NIAID guidelines assist health professionals in diagnosing and managing food allergies and treating acute allergic reactions.
An important award for health promotion since its introduction in 1969, the Award for Administration most recently was given to a Honduran for her work against communicable diseases.
"Today’s report provides a warning signal that too many Americans are driving after having taken drugs, not realizing the potential for putting themselves and others on the highway at risk," said NHTSA Administrator David Strickland.
The new standard requires employers covered by the standard to create a regulated area for each process using diacetyl, unless the process is enclosed. Employers must also provide safeguards for employees who work with diacetyl at certain concentrations.
Oregon requires them for every business of 50,000 square feet or more where the public congregates if it has more than 50 visitors per day. Legislation may be introduced soon in Congress to mandate AEDs in all schools.
Intended for health care workers and medical and nursing students, the interactive course is available free online.
In the past, pesticides were used to eliminate the problem, but as pest control practices have changed, the bedbug problem has grown. Experts note too that most bedbugs are homegrown and are being spread from belongings taken from one place to another.
The Food and Drug Administration is notifying health care professionals, especially those working in emergency and critical care settings, of reports of compatibility problems when certain needleless pre-filled glass syringes are used with some needleless intravenous (IV) access systems. These syringes may malfunction, break, or become clogged during the process of attempting to connect to needleless IV access systems.
Although more airports prohibit smoking today than in 2002, smoking is still allowed inside seven of the nation's largest airports, including three of the five busiest airports.
According to the Food and Drug Administration, millions of antibiotics will be prescribed this year. Antibiotics can be used to treat bacterial infections; however, they are commonly over-prescribed.
Responding to the HHS inspector general's report, the leader of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' administrator, Dr. Donald Berwick, outlined numerous steps being taken to reduce hospital errors.
“Regardless of the gender or age of the patient, or of diabetes, we were able to isolate in all of them a pool of functional cardiac stem cells that we can potentially use to rescue the decompensated human heart,” said Dr. Domenico D’Amario, author of the study and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Harvard in Boston.
Experts have raised concerns that caffeine can mask some of the sensory cues individuals might normally rely on to determine their level of intoxication.