Recent Articles
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Robots are ready for room service, but are hotel guests?
Bambi Majumdar Travel, Hospitality & Event ManagementAloft Hotel in California's Silicon Valley created quite a stir when they introduced their robot room service in August last year. The experiment was still in preliminary stages but still managed to wow guests anyway. Apparently inspired by Star Wars' R2D2, these robots will offer smooth room service and butler facilities across hotels.
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Norway is phasing out FM radio, but don’t expect the US to tune in
Ross Lancaster CommunicationsIt's not breaking any news to say that traditional AM and FM radio have declined in stature over the last generation due to advances in digital and mobile technologies that often give listeners content on-demand and without having to listen to commercials.
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How often are opioids for chronic pain truly misused?
Dorothy L. Tengler PharmaceuticalMore than 1.5 billion people worldwide suffer from chronic pain, and treating it can be challenging for physicians. Doctors often resort to the use of chronic opioid therapy, which has increased substantially in recent years. To examine just how pervasive this issue is, the American Pain Society and the American Academy of Pain Medicine commissioned a systematic review of the evidence on chronic opioid therapy for chronic noncancer pain and convened a multidisciplinary expert panel to review the evidence and formulate recommendations.
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Marketing to the dog-lover lifestyle can mean big business
Jon Kurtz Pet CareWe often hear the term "lifestyle brand" in taglines, marketing and advertising. What is that? Generally, it's a strong area of interest around which we conform the way we live — the products we buy, the foods we eat, etc. Lifestyle identity can influence the neighborhoods or areas where we live — golf course homes, horse country, beaches, and homes built around private airstrips. It affects the clothes we buy, certainly our leisure activities, the charities we support and the friends we favor. Many people identify with more than one lifestyle, and this can often be the case within a single-family household.
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Preventing and reversing cardiac hypertrophy with an ancient remedy
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareCardiac hypertrophy, or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), is a thickening of cardiac muscle often caused by chronic high blood pressure that can lead to heart failure. Although HCM is a leading cause of sudden cardiac death in young athletes, it is a significant cause of sudden unexpected cardiac death in any age group.
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Time to pony up: The secret to collections letters that work
Charlotte Bohnett Healthcare AdministrationThanks to mobster movies, we all fear the repercussions of unpaid debt. While receiving a past-due notice isn't quite the same as a meathead pummeling you, both methods of money collection deliver swift blows. After all, bills often fall into the land of overdue not because we were lazy, but because we didn't have any money.
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Reloading your own ammunition: Getting started
Ken Jolly Recreation & LeisureI recently explained the motivations and reasons to reload, including cost and ammunition shortages. If you've made the decision that reloading is right for you, let's take a look at the steps needed to get started. First off, there are two primary accidents you must watch for in reloading: bad cases and the wrong amount of power (loading too much or not enough).
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A look ahead: Most women physicians feel financially prepared
Cait Harrison Medical & Allied HealthcareFor women physicians, life never slows down. Patient appointments, lab results, medical records, prescription refill requests — it's all in a day's work, and the list could go on. And that's not including the kids and household chores when you get home. But one day it won't be as busy — if you can dream far enough into the future to retirement, that is. Have you thought about that?
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With sanctions lifted, will Iran further damage global oil prices?
Lucy Wallwork Natural ResourcesThe last thing the global oil industry needs now is more supply. The negotiations concluded this month between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the P5+1 countries (China, France, Russia, U.K. and the U.S., plus Germany) were a victory for global nuclear nonproliferation, but have been billed as yet more bad news for oil companies worldwide.
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The secret to creating nursing teams that soar
Keith Carlson Healthcare AdministrationAs a relatively new nurse manager, I'm considering the ways in which I can powerfully inspire my team of nurses to be as functional, dynamic and cohesive as possible. It's clear that 21st-century nurses love strong leadership, but they also like to feel trusted and empowered. It's up to a nurse manager to walk a line that provides both.