5-Hour Energy shots are linked to 13 deaths and 33 hospitalizations, the FDA confirms.So far, 5-Hour Energy maker Living Essentials LLC has received 92 reports from people who fell ill after using the product. Since the product is sold as a nutritional supplement, the company is required to relay such reports to the FDA.The reports themselves do not prove that 5-Hour Energy had anything to do with any of the deaths or illnesses.
Author: SupremeCmdr
Redefining productivity
The decision about what to do next is even more important than the labor spent executing it. A modern productive worker is someone who does a great job in figuring out what to do next.
The Battered Incomes of the Self Employed | Small Business Trends
The 2010 Federal Reserve Survey of Consumer Finances – a triennial survey of a random sample of American households conducted for the Fed by a University of Chicago-based survey research group – shows the large drop in self-employment income that occurred during the recent economic downturn.
via The Battered Incomes of the Self Employed | Small Business Trends.
No place to hide in this Great Recession.
Scary Chart Of The Day: When $0.99 Becomes Unaffordable, We Have A Problem | ZeroHedge
Holy Crap Batman!
So our question is: at what point does the perpetually self-deluded US population finally admit to itself that when even 99 cent meals are no longer affordable, that this country has a problem?
via Chart Of The Day: When $0.99 Becomes Unaffordable, We Have A Problem | ZeroHedge.
It has been a long, long time since I had a Scary Chart post. Well, your wait is over.
ING Layoffs In Connecticut Are Unrelated To Massive Staff Reduction In Europe – Courant.com
Cigna To Lay Off 1,300 Workers
ING To Cut 2,350 Jobs In Europe – Courant.com
ING To Cut 2,350 Jobs In Europe, But None In U.S. – Courant.com.
What’s that old saying about the truth being the exact opposite of what you’re being told?
Domestic Medical Tourism Movement
Change in Kidney Markers Not Just Function of Age
In a large cohort study, relative mortality risk for reduced eGFR was higher in every age category, but fell with increasing age (P<0.05), with similar albeit less evident findings for increased albuminuria, Josef Coresh, MD, PhD, of the Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium Data Coordinating Center in Baltimore, and colleagues reported online in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
Overall, Coresh and colleagues found that death and ESRD risks were higher at lower eGFR and higher albuminuria in every age category.
AHA: No Excess Bleeding Risk with Dabigatran (Pradaxa)
Although the FDA review discounted an excess bleeding risk with dabigatran, it did not address another potential concern — the ability to reverse the anticoagulant effect acutely in cases of emergency.
Antman acknowledged that there is no specific, approved antidote for dabigatran or any of the novel anticoagulants, although it is an area of active investigation and the topic of several studies that will be presented at the AHA meeting in the coming days.
He said it’s not true, however, that clinicians don’t have any options. Intravenous administration of blood coagulation factors — prothrombin complex concentrates that are available in every hospital — can help to reverse the effect, though not completely.
In comparison, the effects of warfarin can be reversed with the administration of vitamin K. Antman noted. But that that doesn’t always work either, and patients can die because of it, he added.
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