Source: CPAP for Prevention of Cardiovascular Events in Obstructive Sleep Apnea — NEJM
IT workers brace for outsourcing, layoffs at health insurer – Computerworld
Employees anticipate that the IT work will be moved offshore, and that they will be training their replacements. They are concerned that the outsourcing will follow the playbook used at other companies, where employees train H-1B visa holders brought in by contractors, and that the training must be completed as a condition of severance.
Source: IT workers brace for outsourcing, layoffs at health insurer | Computerworld
McDonalds Hires Foreign H-1Bs, Fires 70 American Accounting Staff – Breitbart
McDonalds Hires Foreign H-1Bs, Fires 70 American Accounting Staff
Source: McDonalds Hires Foreign H-1Bs, Fires 70 American Accounting Staff – Breitbart
Prognosis of Patients With Familial Hypercholesterolemia After Acute Coronary Syndromes Clinical Perspective – Circulation
CONCLUSIONS: Patients with FH and ACS have a >2-fold adjusted risk of coronary event recurrence within the first year after discharge than patients without FH despite the widespread use of high-intensity statins. # Clinical Perspective {#article-title-36}
Drug Tests: More American Workers Are Testing Positive
Goodbye opioids. Hello heroin. Cheaper and easier to get heroin nowadays than prescription pain killers.
Source: Drug Tests: More American Workers Are Testing Positive
The number of U.S. workers testing positive for illegal drugs has reached its highest level in a decade, according to a new study. With a huge jump in heroin use.
An Open Letter To Tiny House Hunters – terribleminds: chuck wendig
Source: An Open Letter To Tiny House Hunters « terribleminds: chuck wendig
“Which one did they pick?”
“You fell asleep again, didn’t you?”
This post is for all of the spouses out there subjected to the nightly ritual of watching some version of a house hunting show on HGTV.
Read. Laugh. Repeat. (don’t skip the reader comments cuz they are priceless).
Vital Signs: Disparities in Antihypertensive Medication Nonadherence Among Medicare Part D Beneficiaries — United States, 2014 – MMWR
Conclusions and Implications for Public Health Practice:
More than one in four Medicare Part D beneficiaries using anti-hypertensives were non-adherent to their regimen, and certain racial/ethnic groups, states, and geographic areas were at increased risk for non-adherence.
