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iHeart my iPhone

With over 500 downloads per day, ‘iStethoscope’ has clearly piqued some people’s interest. [...]

Cal/OSHA Board Revises Heat Safety Rules

“Farm Bureau and other organizations will continue doing all we can to educate farmers, farm employees and their supervisors about how to avoid heat illness. [...]

Intelligent Clothing Fibers Could Have Medical Applications – Technology For Change

The days of needing a ventilator or a heart monitor are gone. The shirt itself can monitor blood pressure, pulse and body temperature, and regulate all of these functions from a central control panel. [...]

WHOOPING COUGH EPIDEMIC GROWS – SLO COUNTY IN TOP 10!

“The pertussis epidemic is a sobering and tragic reminder that diseases long thought controlled can return with a vengeance,” Horton said. “We can protect ourselves and the most vulnerable in our community by getting vaccinated today.” [...]

Negative Effects of Sleep Restriction May Linger Longer than Bed Hair

One night of recovery sleep then improved all neurobehavioral outcomes as sleep doses increased. However, lapses of attention, subjective sleepiness, reaction times and fatigue scores all remained elevated above baseline levels in the 27 participants who spent 10 hours in bed on the recovery night. [...]

Healthcare On a Budget: A New Trend?

“People just aren’t using healthcare like they have,” Wayne DeVeydt, WellPoint’s chief financial officer, told the Journal. “Utilization is lower than we expected, and it’s unusual.” [...]

Head and spine trauma from ATV accidents cost $3.24 billion annually, study finds

ATV OMG!

Head and spine trauma from ATV accidents cost $3.24 billion annually, [...]

Better-informed patients might spend less on healthcare

90 percent think that reducing the number and severity of medical errors will help reduce costs. [...]

WHOOPING COUGH EPIDEMIC MAY BE WORST IN 50 YEARS

WHOOPING COUGH EPIDEMIC MAY BE WORST IN 50 [...]

Put Yourself in the WC Cost Driver Seat!

Communication is part of an employer’s multi-level strategy of communication with everyone –employees, doctors, TPA, and broker. It may include video messages from the president, sample weekly meeting guidelines for workers’ comp coordinators to use, and forms for injured employees to complete. [...]