Recent Articles

  • Building PT ambassadors: Educate potential customers

    Tannus Quatre Medical & Allied Healthcare

    There are a few things I can say with confidence about physical therapists. The first is that we're helpers. We got into this profession to help people. We do it every day and every way under the sun. We love people, and — generally speaking — people love us, too.

  • Infographic: Follow these tips for marketing on Twitter

    Kaylee Nelson Marketing

    We all know about the popularity of social media marketing among businesses and organizations. But have you noticed the desert of abandoned company pages created out of FOBO (fear of being offline)? You know, the ones that haven't been updated since May of 2012. While creating a page is the first step to social connectivity, maintaining your presence is even more important. But knowing what kind of presence to establish can be an understandable challenge.

  • Learn about millennials before they take over the travel industry

    Suzanne Mason Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

    While baby boomers have created the idea of travel being a necessity rather than a luxury, millennials have taken that idea and evolved it with the help of technology. Quite simply, the younger generation is changing the landscape of travel.

  • Nursing is my talent

    Joan Spitrey Healthcare Administration

    During the talent portion of last weekend's Miss America pageant, Miss Colorado, Kelley Johnson, gave an emotional monologue describing her experience as a nurse. It was a beautiful delivery detailing her emotional experience with an Alzheimer's patient. She described what many nurses have the opportunity to experience everyday — to touch a life in need.

  • China’s cozy ties with Venezuela complicates US oil picture

    Lucy Wallwork Natural Resources

    Earlier this month, a beaming Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro announced on his weekly television show "En contacto con Maduro" that he had secured a $5 billion loan from the Chinese government. This adds to the estimated $56 billion the country has loaned to Venezuela since 2007 — funds that are designed to reverse the decline in output from Venezuelan oil fields.

  • 3 iPhone developments Canadians should consider

    Katherine Radin Science & Technology

    With millions of iPhones preordered worldwide, Apple's launch of the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus has techies, retailers and consumers buzzing with speculation. Articles investigating the end user's experience have flooded the Web with speculation. How will 3-D Touch change our lives? Why didn't they address battery lifespan? How will iOS 9 differentiate itself from iOS 8?

  • Your relationship with work: Time to start dating

    Catherine Iste Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    Whether it is the turn in the economy or the incessant demands of the millennials, the tide has turned in the workplace. More people have more options when it comes to what they do, for whom and for how much. As choices increase, and the upper hand returns to the workers, what can employees do to determine if they are in the right place, doing what they should for the right amount of money?

  • CDC grants $20 million to combat opioid overdoses

    Chelsea Adams Pharmaceutical

    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has granted $20 million to 16 states in an effort combat the growing number of deaths due to prescription drug overdoses. The Prescription Drug Overdose: Prevention for States program is part of the Department of Health and Human Services' Opioid Initiative and builds upon the CDC's Prevention Boost and Core Violence and Injury Prevention programs, which went into effect in 2014.

  • Pressure mounts on UK cooling industry

    Andrew Gaved Manufacturing

    I have written before about the sort of pressures the revised F-Gas regulations are putting on the European cooling industry, as F-Gas requirements start to change the way the industry works. Prime among the pressures is the cost and availability of the higher-GWP refrigerants that the program of proposed refrigerant bans and phasedowns aims to ultimately remove from use. These are pressures that will ultimately be faced by the U.S. as it undergoes its own cap and phase-down program.

  • How the world’s top companies keep their employees engaged

    Eloise Allen Business Management, Services & Risk Management

    Employee engagement is one of the most important aspects of managing a company. It encourages employees to contribute as much as possible and discourages them from leaving, preventing a talent drain and saving money hiring replacements. The challenge, however, is to find the formula and develop the corporate culture of values that engages them in the first place.