Word: health
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...outsourcing, Harvard will not only be saving itself the management of the guards, it will also be saving money. By any measure, Harvard pays its in-house guards more than the industry standard. Since they are Harvard employees, they are also recipients of generous health and retirement benefits. Because Harvard didn't hire any new guards after 1992, by 1999 all of the guards were earning the maximum hourly wage and working unlimited overtime because of the small, tightly stretched force. Harvard was thus paying an exorbitant amount per hour for security...
...your company is a villain in one of history?s greatest public health disasters, it?s simply good business to flog yourself as painlessly and as publicly as possible ? before someone else does. That's what appears to have happened Tuesday when, in a stunning admission of the obvious, Philip Morris acknowledged that cigarette smoking isn?t safe, that cigarettes are addictive and that those who indulge are far more likely to develop certain kinds of cancer than nonsmokers. The tobacco giant?s web site, while still sprinkled liberally with friendly references to its Marlboro brand, now hosts a page...
...know they?d kill us?" Now that Philip Morris has admitted the danger, says Cohen, they may have released themselves from such liability. Other cigarette makers are looking to sidle up to the trough of redemption ? the folks over at R. J. Reynolds are currently working on a "health issues" site as well...
...harder to get a liver or heart transplant in Maryland than it is in Kansas? Maybe not, but you?d probably get that impression from a new Health and Human Services report. The study charts the rates of death while waiting for a transplant, the chances of getting a new organ and the percentage of successful procedures associated with heart and liver transplants in 100 medical centers across the country. The numbers, picked up ahead of time by the Associated Press, are being released Thursday but are causing an early stir in the medical establishment. According to the report, there...
...much more valuable to everyone." At that point, discrepancies will be explained, or at least fleshed out. Already, experts are offering possible reasons for the variations in success rates, including the hospitals? policies on organ distribution, the willingness of a community to donate and, of course, the health of the transplant patient. "These numbers may be helpful to patients and their families," says Speildenner. "But they should be only one of many factors examined when they decide where to go for an organ transplant...