Recent Articles
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Department of 1: Tearing down silos
Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementWelcome to Part 3 in our series on best practices for leading multiple functions. With the majority of companies having fewer than 100 employees, most employees are asked to do a variety of different tasks. We have looked at this from the individual contributor and manager perspectives. In this article, we will expose one of the greatest challenges this type of work environment faces and a simple strategy to overcome it.
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Church safety: Handling medical incidents
Amy Scott Religious CommunityIn the first article of the series, we discussed establishing a church safety and security committee. Once you form a committee, addressing medical needs should be one of your first tasks. While some safety concerns vary based on the church's location or size, medical emergencies can occur in urban churches or rural churches, along with megachurches and small congregations.
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Key differences in new guidelines for heart transplantation
Lynn Hetzler Medical & Allied HealthcareThe International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (ISHLT) has published new guidelines for heart transplantation candidacy that address many of the important and relevant issues associated with transplantation.
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Studies show marijuana helps Alzheimer’s patients sleep better
Dr. Denise A. Valenti Medical & Allied HealthcareTwo recent reports regarding Alzheimer's disease may send baby boomers in search of their roach clips, pipes and Mary Jane brownie recipes. A small study reported in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease investigated the consumption of oil containing a low dose of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in patients with Alzheimer's disease. Assaf Shelef, M.D., from Abarbanel Mental Health Center and Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel-Aviv University, led the team reporting the improvement in behaviors related to dementia, including improvements in sleep patterns.
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An idiom is worth a thousand words
Debra Josephson Abrams EducationIdioms are the "peculiar character or genius of a language." They are the keys that unlock the doors to a language's vast landscape — a landscape otherwise circumscribed by users' language limitations. Native users take idioms for granted, using them frequently. To non-native users, idioms are fascinating enigmas not easily translated into their own language if they translate at all. Non-native users are eager to learn idioms because idioms are ubiquitous.
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The rapid growth of online video marketing
Suzanne Mason MarketingWith the help of digital marketing, businesses have been able to expand outreach to consumers in ways that were once unattainable. Video marketing, gaining quick popularity with both businesses and consumers is now taking digital marketing to an entirely new level in 2016.
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Can mindfulness help childhood obesity?
Dorothy L. Tengler Medical & Allied HealthcareChildhood obesity is a serious problem in the United States. Despite recent declines in the prevalence among preschool-aged children, obesity among children is still too high. For children and adolescents aged 2-19 years, the prevalence of obesity has remained fairly stable at about 17 percent and 12.7 million children and adolescents for the past decade.
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4 secrets to CEO productivity
Kristen McAlister Business Management, Services & Risk ManagementThe executives you see on the cover of Forbes magazine didn't make it on a fluke. They made it there with a combination of hard work and productive habits. Working those extra hours certainly helps, but that alone isn't the key to success. The one thing most successful people have in common is their passion and productive lifestyle. CEOs get the same 24 hours you and I do, yet they can manage to complete all their work with time left over for their personal life and hobbies.
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Cooperate or die: Building a collaborative board
William D. Pawlucy Association ManagementIt is so easy to say, "Our board is going to be collaborative and work better together this year." The hard part is defining what it is, what it looks like and how it is done. There is no magic in making this happen, but there is a lot of good work to build a collaborative mindset that is magical. Building the mindset in turn builds a great team, and a great team innovates through great collaboration. But how do we get there?
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Is glycemic index a relevant tool for evaluating pet food?
Jennifer Adolphe, Ph.D. Pet CareGlycemic index has become a common tool to evaluate pet foods. However, as with many trends in the human and pet food industries, it is often used without a full understanding of its meaning and proper usage. The glycemic index originally was developed in the early 1980s to rank human foods based on their effect on blood glucose levels. The glycemic load is calculated by multiplying the glycemic index of a food by its carbohydrate content.