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Expert Life Underwriter Opinion – Create Jobs…Hire Somebody
The Yawning of a New Era | workforce.com
America’s workforce is weary. Employees of all ages report feeling fatigued, stressed, burned out or depressed, brought down by a heavier workload, layoffs and an assortment of other adverse conditions workers feel they have little or no power to control.
The hamsters are starting to fall off their wheels.
All kidding aside, this is a serious management issue. So what’s a little fatigue. A plane crash here, a truck crash there right?
All we do is put risk on the books.
So what’s a little higher error ratio?
Scary Charts of the Day 12/10/10
Too many scary charts to reproduce. Plus, in all fairness, you really should read Mish’s latest economic analysis from the source.
Bye Bye Thelin
Scary Chart of the Day – 12/06/10
This is scary if you think about it enough.
I debated whether or not this chart deserved to be a scary chart. Obviously I decided it was scary enough. Despite the lower cost of some stuff, deflation overall is not a good thing.
Economist’s View: FRBSF: Disinflation – It’s Not Just Housing
DM1 Mortality Rate Improves
Type 1 Diabetes Death Rate is Falling, But Not Fast Enough
When the researchers broke the mortality rate down by the time of diagnosis, they found that those diagnosed later had a much improved mortality rate. The group diagnosed in the 1960s had a 9.3 times higher mortality rate than the general population, while the early 1970s group had a 7.5 times higher mortality than the general population. For the late 1970s group, mortality had dropped to 5.6 times higher than the general population.
Bye Bye Darvon
Richard Lehman’s Journal Review – 8 November 2010
Watch Those Uric Acid Levels
There is a significant association between lowering uric acid in patients with high levels and a reduction of their mortality from cardiovascular disease, researchers said here.
During the study period, hyperuricemia patients who were treated with urate lowering drugs such as allopurinol achieved a 44% reduction in death caused by heart disease and a 58% reduction in deaths caused by stroke (P<0.001 for both), according to Jiunn-Horng Chen, MD, PhD, of China Medical University, Taichung, Republic of China (Taiwan).
Smoking and Dementia Risk
Conclusions – In this large cohort, heavy smoking in midlife was associated with a greater than 100% increase in risk of dementia, AD, and VaD more than 2 decades later. These results suggest that the brain is not immune to long-term consequences of heavy smoking.
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