Recent Articles

• It’s business as usual for drug companies, despite opioid epidemic

  Dr. Abimbola Farinde Pharmaceutical

  Opioids are a well known and utilized medication class, and this has ultimately led to the prevalence of opioid abuse and addiction throughout the United States. Of the 21.5 million Americans who are age 12 or older and had a substance abuse disorder in 2014, 1.9 million had a substance abuse disorder related to prescription pain medications, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine. At least 23 percent of individuals who use heroin ultimately develop an opioid addiction.

• Do you promote entrepreneurial spirit in your students?

  Danielle Manley Education

  The education system is designed to prepare students for the real world, but with more students than ever before entering the "real world" as entrepreneurs, is our education system still doing its job? Preparing students to become entrepreneurs isn't a one-size-fits-all plan. An entrepreneur can do practically anything — from creating a new technology to opening a yoga studio — so the preparation will vary for each student. However, you can help students get into the right mindset and encourage them to pursue their interests and talents by creating an environment designed to promote exploration, creativity and individual thought.

• Career change in healthcare: Transitioning to your true calling

  Brian Bauer Healthcare Administration

  It's no secret the healthcare industry is experiencing explosive job growth with the increasing demand for health services. Technology seems to bring us into the future faster with each passing year, and with these advances come new methods of performing old tasks and new opportunities to fill roles that were inconceivable not so long ago.

• Data-driven event decisions

  Ashely Muntan-King Travel, Hospitality & Event Management

  As a corporate event planner for a data management company, I am immersed in the language of big data, data availability and data reliability. This has led me to begin reflecting upon the events we manage and how data can drive our event-making decisions.

• 4 key CIO partnerships and how to improve them

  Galen M. Metz Science & Technology

  I was delivering bad news to a business executive — the system was down. I had delivered such a message to other business executives over the years, so I was expecting the typical response of being lectured on the cost of an outage to the business.

• Big changes may be coming to how pharmaceuticals are made

  Alan Kelsky Pharmaceutical

  Before there were drug companies, there were medicine men, shamans and doctors with limited training. Nevertheless, the manufacturing of drugs has remained virtually unchanged for centuries. Back in the days when drugs were first made from plant extracts, they were processed in a batch — albeit with limited ingredients. Today, we still make drugs in batches, but the batches are many times larger and have lots more ingredients.

• No surprise: People hate reviewing health plan info

  Scott E. Rupp Healthcare Administration

  Health insurance and all it involves — especially the selecting of a plan and the subsequent purchase of chosen plan — appear to be quite intimidating, United Healthcare suggests. So, while there may be more tools to compare plans, and more plans available, consumers continue to struggle when selecting said plan.

• A ken for kenning: Identifying and creating imaginative language

  Debra Josephson Abrams Education

  For those who read the poetic epic "Beowulf" in excerpts or in its entirety, you'll remember the many kennings in the text. According to the British Library, a third of "Beowulf" is kennings. Kennings are types of figurative and metaphorical compound terms created using mixed imagery, with etymology in Old English, Old Norse and German. Bone-house (body) and whale-road (ocean) are two of the most famous kennings, both from "Beowulf."

• Officers must take it one step further

  Keith Funderburk Law Enforcement, Defense & Security

  All are aware of the growth of domestic terrorism and how it has affected different regions across the nation. Awareness sometimes is not enough, and we as police officers must bring this awareness to the forefront and be more vigilant than ever before — due to the fact that we are the ones being targeted.

• Does the smart kitchen have a future?

  Michael J. Berens Interior Design, Furnishings & Fixtures

  ​While still in its infancy, smart technology has made tremendous strides within a short time. Today, smart products are available for nearly every room of the home. The kitchen, in particular, has received a great deal of attention as an area where smart appliances can offer harried consumers new levels of convenience and control to save them time and ease their stress.

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