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Nursing Shortage Eases With Recession's Help
"The nation"s deep recession is helping to alleviate the decade-long nursing shortage, as workers who had left the field in better times are returning in droves," the Wall Street Journal reports. The paper quotes a study, one of six papers on the nursing workforce published today in the journal Health Affairs, that found "nearly a quarter-million nurses entered the work force in 2007-08, an 18% surge that was the largest two-year increase in at least three decades." Many of them had left nursing, but "re-entered the work force to compensate for a spouse"s lost income or health benefits, the study said." The increase is "particularly remarkable at a time when the U.S. economy has shed more than six million jobs, helping to solidify the profession"s "recession-proof" image." The study found that the surge in new nurses is due to "efforts to expand nursing schools, attract more young people into the field and improve working conditions," along with an increase in the number of foreign-born nurses.
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New Detectors For Nuclear, Radiological Material In Cargo Should Not Be Acquired Until Testing Deficiencies Fixed, Cost-Benefit Analysis Completed
A thorough cost-benefit analysis that includes an assessment of meaningful alternatives is needed to reveal the potential security advantages of deploying new detector systems to screen cargo for nuclear and radiological materials at U.S. ports and border crossings. It is likely that the costs will exceed the savings gained from improved efficiency of the screening systems, says a new report from the National Research Council. There are shortcomings in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security"s testing of these new detector systems, therefore the DHS secretary cannot conclude whether they will consistently outperform the current ones. DHS should not proceed with further procurement of these new detector systems until the issues are addressed and the systems have been shown to be a favored option in the cost-benefit analysis.
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ACTEMRA(R) (tocilizumab) Studies To Be Featured At The European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) Congress
Roche announced that oral and poster presentations highlighting results from the extensive multi-national ACTEMRA(R) (tocilizumab) clinical development program will be presented at the 10th Annual Congress of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR), which will take place June 10-13, 2009, in Copenhagen, Denmark. The studies evaluate ACTEMRA, a novel treatment targeting interleukin-6 (IL-6) receptors, in patients with moderately to severely active RA.
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Financial Crisis Caused By Banking Chiefs Plagued With Hubris Syndrome

The current financial meltdown has in part been caused by bankers who display the attributes of Hubris Syndrome, a former leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) has claimed. Lord David Owen, a trained medical doctor, told delegates at the Royal College of Psychiatrists Annual Meeting in Liverpool that some banking chief executives -responsible for making the "rogue banking decisions" that led to the current financial crisis - displayed traits of the syndrome. Lord Owen warned delegates: "The origin of the financial situation we are in lies in rogue banking decisions. "The consequence of allowing these people to continue in power unchecked are pretty serious." According to Lord Owen, Hubris Syndrome is "acquired" and tends to occur once a person is in a position of power. Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair have both had it, he claimed. Lord Owen said some of the characteristics of people with Hubris Syndrome include: - a narcissistic propensity to see the world as an arena in which they can exercise poor and seek glory. - a predisposition to take actions which seem likely to cast them in a good light/ enhance their image. - a disproportionate concern with image and presentation. - an identification of themselves with the nation, or organisation, to the extent that they regard their outlook and interests as identical. - restlessness, recklessness and impulsiveness. - a tendency to talk of themselves in the third person or under the royal "we". - excessive confidence in their own judgement and contempt for the advice or criticism of others. - exaggerated self belief, bordering on a sense of omnipotence, in what they personally can achieve. - loss of contact with reality, often associated with progressive isolation. - hubristic incompetence - where things go wrong because too much self confidence has led the leader not to worry about the nuts and bolts of policy. According to Lord Owen, who has written a paper for the medical journal Brain, the phenomenon is captured in phrases such as "power has gone to his head", "he"s taken leave of his senses", "he"s lost his marbles" or "she"s lost all touch with reality". Lord Owen also admits he was in danger of developing the syndrome when he was leader of the SDP. To counter the problem, he said UK firms should learn from the United States where chief executives are contained and constrained thanks to a "mentoring system". This involves bringing someone in from outside the firm, often in a high position, who people can look up to, and establishes a dialogue. Lord Own concluded: "This is something businesses could and should get a grip on." Royal College of Psychiatrists


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