Best Practices in On-Site Wellness Series: Guidelines for Choosing a Health Screening and Flu Shot Vendor
Today, more companies are implementing wellness programs in order to improve the health and productivity of their employees, while at the same time reducing overall health care expenses. However, it is easy to think of health screenings as a commodity instead of what they truly are ? health care.
Continuous glucose monitoring cut mean A1C from 8.8% to 7.2% over 26 weeks in adults with type 2 diabetes not on insulin, 0.9 points more than routine care in the CONNECT trial.
American Oncology Network’s Melody Chang, R.Ph., says 18% of its first 70 outpatient bispecific patients had CRS, all low grade with no hospitalizations.
Garza, an expert on hidradenitis suppurativa at Johns Hopkins, says increasing incidence of the disease on the Japanese island of Okinawa offer some "tantalizing clues" about reasons for the rising incidence.
Pooja Roy, M.D., of Houston Methodist Hospital, discusses how Precedex (dexmedetomidine), an ICU sedative, sometimes triggers noninfectious fever, sparking costly sepsis workups, and the need for a test could help clinicians identify the drug as a cause of fever in ICUs.