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Tysabri and Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy
11th Tysabri Patient Develops PML
I thought I was updating a prior post on Tysabri and PML but I was wrong.
I wrote a post about Raptiva and PML.
I wonder what would happen if you took Raptiva and Tysabri together?
Self-Neglect = 6X Risk of Death Within a Year
I think I’ll pay some attention to myself today.
Question of the Day – August 7, 2009 – Can Businesses Really Do More With Less?
At the end of 2007 a large Midwestern US insurance company instituted mandatory 55 hour workweeks for their underwriters.
A year later, that same company a laid off a bunch of people. Some of these employees were the same people from whom management mandated OT from just one year prior.
The hamsters are dying. I don’t think they can do more with less. Time for a new business model.
My answer to the question is NO.
Businesses Learn To Make Do With Fewer Workers : NPR
Since December 2007, the labor market has seen a net decline of 6.5 million jobs.
Vitamin D News – Kids Need More D
Medical News: U.S. Children Lack Vitamin D – in Pediatrics, General Pediatrics from MedPage Today
Come on people! A cup of fortified cow’s milk or soy milk provides 25-30% of your daily D needs. How hard is that? Get out and take a walk when the sun is shining. How hard is that? Eat some salmon. How hard is that?
Give your children a daily multi-vitamin.
How hard is that?
Son of Risperdal (risperidone)
Read This After You Digest Yesterday’s Scary Chart
Workforce Blogs – The Business of Management
But when an overwhelming 85 percent of the unemployed say that they’d take a job for 20 percent less than they made before, then maybe it’s time to stop blaming the out-of-work people for their predicament and focus on the real issue: a shattered economy that looks like it’s going to stay shattered (at least in terms of job growth) for a long time.
Scary Chart of the Day – August 4, 2009
EconomPic: “Japanese Wages in Record Plunge”
This is what happens to the people who make the stuff we used to buy.
Lap Band? Think Again
In summary, there is rapidly mounting and convincing evidence that laparoscopic gastric banding is suboptimal in the management of morbid obesity. Although short-term complications are low and hospital length of stay is short, the long-term problems including band removals are high and failure to lose weight after laparoscopic gastric banding is prevalent.
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