January 2018

Our e-newsletter for Enterprise Risk Management, Claim Settlement and Healthcare Solutions.

New Chronic Low Back Pain Treatment Study

According to the Mayo Clinic, approximately 80% of all Americans will have low back pain at least once in their lives. As risk, claim, healthcare and legal professionals know, the top injury for workers compensation claims are strains and sprains, many of them related to lifting incidents affecting the lower back. Utilizing the results from a new study may help reduce the cost of claims for chronic low back pain. Read more >>

More Risk, Claim and Healthcare News ...

Could Algorithm Predict the Risk of Alzheimer's? Researchers have created an algorithm that could predict the risk of Alzheimer's in patients with mild cognitive impairment 2 years before symptoms arise. View article...

Is Coffee Good for Your Health? British-based researchers reviewed more than 200 existing studies to assess whether coffee is, in fact, good for your health. Here's what they found. View article...

Risks of Prolonged Sitting Studied. Prolonged sitting may raise the risk of early death, but new research suggests that this risk could be offset by getting up and moving every half an hour. View article...

Osteoarthritis (OA) Progression Algorithm Developed. A novel cartilage degeneration algorithm can predict osteoarthritis (OA) progression in individual patients, and could facilitate clinical decision-making in treatment. View article…

Risk Factors for Hospital-Onset C difficile Identified. Some antibiotics increased the risk for infection, while others appeared to provide a protective effect. View article...

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