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Labor trends to watch in 2024: A U.S. economic outlook and sector play-by-play

Work Life

Life sciences: making strides despite hurdles Healthcare The healthcare sector is likely to see consistent headcount growth into next year—and organizations will need all the help they can get to address critical workforce shortages. Hospitals averaged a staggeringly low unemployment rate of 1.4%

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How The Integrated Approach of Virgin Pulse and HealthComp is Changing the Future of Health Equity 

Virgin Pulse Corporate Wellness

In the multifaceted world of health and wellbeing, it is increasingly clear that traditional healthcare and employee benefits focusing primarily on clinical care don’t fully encompass an individual’s health status. Now more than ever it is critical to make sure that healthcare is universally available to all.

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Tapering Strips: A Practical Tool for Personalised and Safe Tapering of Withdrawal-Causing Prescription Drugs

Mad in America

According to the FDA, ‘ healthcare providers generally may prescribe the drug for an unapproved use when they judge that it is medically appropriate for their patient ’ ( FDA, 2018 ). Metaphorically speaking, this is akin to allowing pharmaceutical companies to sell cars without having to verify if they have brakes that are functioning.

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What Are We Overlooking? Reviewing Current and Alternative Treatments for Psychosis

Mad in America

Given the current level of neuroscientific understanding of causality in the brain and nervous system, it seems pretty much inevitable that exposure to pharmaceutical psychotropics will produce adverse consequences. Even if the harms are not properly recognized or understood till decades later. The post What Are We Overlooking?

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AI will eliminate many ‘blue-collar’ jobs—and 4 other AI predictions

Work Life

Revolutionizing Healthcare The transition to digital data is already well underway in the healthcare industry. This shift empowers AI, enabling it to transform healthcare into a data-driven field, from diagnosis and treatment to health alerts, monitoring, and long-term care.

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How Great Leaders Help Employees Connect to Purpose

Great Place to Work

At Vertex Pharmaceuticals, a Bell Ringing ceremony is held to celebrate important milestones in the development of treatment of diseases. At Jackson Healthcare , employees are asked on their first day at the company about the kinds of service that would be most rewarding for them. Train managers to lead with purpose.

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Part 4: Neurodiversity: New Paradigm, or Trojan Horse?

Mad in America

This hunt for medical confirmation tends to be accompanied by a consumerist perspective on healthcare which sees the acquisition of the desired diagnosis as a right, not an expert opinion that may or may not be deemed applicable in a given case. The consequences for assessment and therapy were described in Part 3.