Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 4, 2024

Pharmacy benefit managers have been under constant pressure for years for their alleged role in raising patient out-of-pocket costs and squeezing independent pharmacies.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 4, 2024

I’ve got a pretty stable approach to reading the medical literature. I even have a talk, “keeping up on the literature.” I have the JAMA, NEJM, and JAMA IM email me their TOC. I then use my other “media” – NYT, NPR, twitter, office chatter – to find other articles I should be reading. Last week, there were no articles that changed my practice but there were a few that I found interesting.

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Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 4, 2024

According to a recent study, an El Niño event might have played a key role in enabling the rapid transmission of a new strain of the bacterium that causes cholera.

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Emerging RN Leader

AUGUST 4, 2024

By Rose O. Sherman, EdD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN Nurse turnover in 2023 was down to 18.4%. Part of the reason for this decline in turnover is that health systems are rethinking antiquated employment practices that have led nurses to seek new positions. Nurse leaders are also rethinking how they should view turnover. A medical-surgical manager […] The post Rethinking Unit Turnover appeared first on Emerging Nurse Leader.

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Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 4, 2024

Tamara Potocka from Slovakia collapsed when suffering an asthma attack after swimming a 200 meter women's individual medley heat at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

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Health Populi

AUGUST 4, 2024

People have been undergoing their own human kind of digital transformations, turbocharged during the pandemic for many who never used Zoom or Amazon Prime or Uber. That consumer-borne digital transformation has shaped people as health consumers, many having used telehealth and appointment-scheduling online. And peoples’ relationships with pharmacies are also changing, with more health consumers finding greater satisfaction with their mail order pharmacy experiences than with moat retail br

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Northwest Career College

AUGUST 4, 2024

One crucial factor contributing to the success of every business is effective team collaboration. Teamwork ensures that tasks are completed efficiently, ideas are openly shared, and projects progress. A Business Administration Assistant’s role helps ensure that collaboration functions seamlessly and the team operates smoothly. Coordination and Scheduling Proper scheduling and meeting coordination are significant duties of business administrative assistants.

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Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 4, 2024

At the Paris Olympics, Katie Ledecky has added two gold medals to bring her career Olympic gold medal haul to nine. Here's the swimming stroke that's helped her.

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Sensible Medicine

AUGUST 4, 2024

Editors note: a shortened version of this post was originally submitted to the New England Journal, but it was rejected. Refusing to host debates is why journals will die. By Joseph Marine, MD In a recent NEJM Perspective piece , Drs. Mullen, Topol, and Verghese argue “in support of institutional voices” to take public positions on matters of public controversy “when it concludes that a faculty member’s opinion could cause public harm.” Their essay (ironically publi

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Forbes Healthcare

AUGUST 4, 2024

Recent data shows that about one in three adults don’t get enough sleep. Here are three ways to fall asleep based on current trends and research.

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