Ranbaxy’s war over generic Lipitor – May. 4, 2011
Author: SupremeCmdr
DM Increases Cancer Risk
Diabetes Increases Risk of Cancer Death – NYTimes.com
“Researchers from the National Cancer Institute collected diet, lifestyle and health data from 500,000 people ages 50 to 71 and followed the patients for 11 years. They found that having diabetes was associated with an 11 percent increased risk of dying from cancer among women and a 17 percent increased risk of cancer death among men.”
May is National Arthritis Awareness Month
Change or Die
Seth Godin: The New Face Of Publishing « Radio Litopia
One of the most difficult things you ever have to do as a manager, executive or consultant is helping others to change. Follow this link to an interview with Seth Godin. It’s about 30 minutes long but well worth listening to. Godin’s thoughts about the future of the publishing industry are both scary and on target. Could there be another business so entrenched in the past, so tied to doing things the way they have always been done that its leaders are unable to see the changes all around us and that doing nothing becomes the perfect strategy for a slow and painful business death?
More on Multitasking – 04/23/2001
Interviews – Clifford Nass | Digital Nation | FRONTLINE | PBS
“It turns out multitaskers are terrible at every aspect of multitasking. They’re terrible at ignoring irrelevant information; they’re terrible at keeping information in their head nicely and neatly organized; and they’re terrible at switching from one task to another.”
This interview is worth reading in its entirety.
RAPS Trial
Artery v. Vein in a very interesting study.
“Note that in this study, the use of radial arteries was associated with a lower rate of functional and complete occlusion at five years compared with the use of saphenous veins.”
Suicide and the Economy
Watch Listen and Learn – 4/16/2011
Nassim Taleb on Living with Black Swans – Knowledge@Wharton
“Economic life gets stronger not with bailouts, but with bankruptcies.
Evolution works not with bailouts — there are no bailouts in nature —
but with competition and natural selection.”
Anatomy of a Financial Collapse
First look – Wall Street and the Financial Crisis; Anatomy of a Financial Collapse « The Bankwatch
Follow the link above to another link for the pdf version of the US Senate Levin/Coburn report. In keeping with my policy of attribution the link is to an article where I became aware of the original report.
Read broadly and think critically.
More on Flight Risk
Employee Loyalty Waning as National Unemployment Rate Continues to Fall
No, we are not talking about holes in 737’s. We are talking about MetLife’s 9th Annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends. I always credit my sources so instead of a direct link to the MetLife study I’ve linked the article where I first read about the study. There is a link at the bottom of that article to the download page at MetLife.
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