Once again technology and creativity move more quickly than corporate policy. Call me if you need help in developing a social media policy for your company. The cartoon was drawn by an artist named Hugh Macleod. I’ve added a link to his website under my Blogroll on the sidebar.
Bloggers Find The Ax is Mightier Than The Pen | workforce.com
The Coming Fight for Executive Talent – BusinessWeek
I’ve shortened the title of my occasional posts on management issues to Turkeys. Any negative connotations are purely coincidental. This series of posts started while underwriting at my brother’s house and his gaggle of wild turkeys walked by. So say bye-bye to “Remote Underwriting With Turkeys”. Now we’re just talkin’ turkey.
And management issues.
Police: Census worker Bill Sparkman staged his suicide | csmonitor.com
Bill Sparkman, the Kentucky census worker found hanged and wrapped in duct tape with the word “FED” scrawled on his chest, concocted the entire scenario as an elaborate ruse to commit insurance fraud, Kentucky police said Tuesday.
Conclusion: Strong evidence indicates that CRP is associated with CHD events. Moderate, consistent evidence suggests that adding CRP to risk prediction models among initially intermediate-risk persons improves risk stratification. However, sufficient evidence that reducing CRP levels prevents CHD events is lacking.
The prevalence of diabetes among Mexican Americans aged ≥75 years has nearly doubled between 1993–1994 and 2004–2005 from 20.3 to 37.2%, respectively (P < 0.001).
A decrease of 5 grams of salt a day (about one teaspoon) was associated with a 23% lower stroke rate and up to 17% less total cardiovascular disease, reported Pasquale Strazzullo, MD, of the “Federico II” University of Naples, Italy, and colleagues online in BMJ.
The drug was originally developed as an antidepressant. Animal experiments had suggested it might have a more rapid effect than serotonin reuptake inhibitors, but it failed to substantially reduce depression symptoms in a clinical trial.However, the potential to increase female sexual desire became apparent during the study. Reportedly, trial participants were reluctant to return unused pills when the study was over.
In this study, the overall lifetime risk among 40-year-olds was 12.3% for men and 4.2% for women.
Life is not fair.
During a mean follow-up of 30 years, 56.5% of the participants died. About a third of the deaths (32.1%) were attributed to cardiac causes. Of those, 40.4% were from sudden arrhythmia.
As in individuals with a J-point elevation of at least 0.1 mV, those with an elevation of greater than 0.2 mV in the inferior leads had an increased risk of death from cardiac causes (RR 2.98, 95% CI 1.85 to 4.92) and from sudden arrhythmia (RR 2.92, 95% CI 1.45 to 5.89).
Nearly half of those with an elevation of more than 0.2 mV (47.2%) died from cardiac causes, compared with 17.2% among those who did not have the early repolarization pattern (P<0.001).
