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redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online According to a study published in the August issue of the American Journal of Infection Control, the official publication of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), nurse burnout costs hospitals millions of additional dollars annually and leads to higher healthcare-associated infection rates (HAIs). Researchers from the Center for Health Outcomes and Policy Research at the University of...
The inferior members of swimming or running relay teams – those athletes who fared poorest in individual races – showed the greatest gains when performing as part of a team, and those gains were even greater during final races as opposed to preliminary races. The new research from Michigan State University’s Deborah Feltz and Kaitlynn Osborn provides some of the first real-world support for the Köhler motivation effect, which describes how less capable individuals perform better...
MAHWAH, N.J., July 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- InterCore Energy, Inc. (OTCBB: ICOR - News) announced that on Friday, July 20, 2012, its Board of Directors adopted a resolution granting warrants to the Company's senior management team. The structure of the warrant packages is consistent with one of the basic operating principles of ICOR: that management's rewards would be linked to ICOR's financial performance. The intention has always been that management would have...
SAN DIEGO, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The bestseller Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James has created a sexual revolution. While the explicit content that explores the sexual relationship of the two main characters isn't for everyone many readers are exploring their own fantasies along with the fictional pair. And for California-based OB/GYN physician--Dr. Diana Hoppe--it's a good thing. In getting intimate with their own sexuality women are reigniting their libidos and they are...
Major businesses call for preparation in the face of increasingly severe weather events and temperature rise WASHINGTON, July 10, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being released by Partnership for Resilience and Environmental Preparedness (PREP): For the first time, leading companies from the food and beverage, insurance, investment, technology, and energy industries today released a step-by-step tool, Business ADAPT, for businesses to assess and prepare for the...
NORTH BRUNSWICK, N.J., July 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Swith2Health Corp. (S2H) launched the S2H Challenge, a social-media based wellness platform designed to assist corporations in incentivizing employees to get moving and get healthy. For more information and to download the S2H Challenge brochure, visit www.s2h.com. The S2H Challenge motivates employees to become more active by encouraging healthy competition and rewarding participation. S2H Challenge participants wear an S2H...
ST. LOUIS, June 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- InteliSpend Prepaid Solutions announced today it is teaming up with employee wellness program provider gBehavior to provide wellness expertise, program design and program delivery for InteliSpend clients. Both companies are focused on helping lower healthcare costs for employers and employees. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100720/CG37991LOGO) According to the Office of the Surgeon General, about two-thirds of American adults are...
NEW YORK, June 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- This week's Photo Challenge -CLOSE- is particularly interesting because it focuses on a theme that can be interpreted in several ways. "Close" could be all the things Sara mentioned in the WP post; a feeling, proximity, people, places, and objects. It could also be the ending, unfolding, deciding on a new direction to take, shifting winds, or even the completion or closure of a phase in our lives. When things are up close, we get a chance...
LOS ANGELES, June 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) has increased its incentives for customers served by municipal utilities in the Los Angeles County area who participate in the Energy Upgrade California program. These municipalities include the cities of Azusa, Burbank, Glendale, Los Angeles, and Pasadena. The incentives being offered by SoCalGas are in addition to the rebates LA County currently offers. When combined with SoCalGas' incentives,...
The catastrophic consequences of natural and human disasters have been demonstrated repeatedly in recent years, most notably in the Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster but also in the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, Hurricane Katrina, and regional droughts, floods and fires. These events clearly demonstrate the urgent need for basic research to advance fundamental knowledge and innovation for disaster prevention, mitigation and management. The big data revolution holds the...
