days, and harm to the provider and hospital reputation.”
FDA Lowers Ambien Dosages–Driving Can Be Impaired the Morning After Makers of sleep drugs containing zolpidem, including Ambien and Ambien CR, must cut the recommended dosages for women by half — to 5 mg for immediate-release products and 6.25 mg for extended-release formulations — to reduce morning drowsiness, the FDA has announced.
Women’s College to Focus on Wellness Spelman College in Atlanta, the oldest college for black women in the U.S., is embarking on an initiative to improve the lifelong well-being of its students, sacrificing its participation in intercollegiate athletics for a program that emphasizes wellness for its entire student body.
Next-morning impairment is a common side effect of all insomnia drugs, and alertness can be impaired even when people The Will of the people is the don’t feel sleepy. New data The college has belonged to only legitimate foundation suggest that the drugs can a traditional NCAA division 3 of any government leave levels high enough the athletics program, but about morning after use to impair --Thomas Jefferson a year ago their conference activities such as driving. decided to disband, which led The issue is especially acute to a rethinking of the role of in women. physical activity in an institution of higher learning for African-American women. The FDA is continuing to evaluate other sleep medications, The college’s president, Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD states: “In our mission statement, we say that we are educating the whole person — mind, body, and spirit. As a distinguished liberal arts college we certainly put a lot of emphasis on developing the habits of the mind, in terms of Billions Paid Out for Surgical critical thinking, and there are plenty of Errors opportunities to develop the spiritual life. In the past, however, we had less emphasis on Surgical “never events” — such as leaving a encouraging beneficial habits for the body,” sponge in a patient — cost healthcare professionals a minimum of $1.3 billion in “Many of our students already are overweight or malpractice payouts from 1990 to 2010, obese and are enrolling with diabetes or high researchers found. blood pressure,” Tatum said. “This initiative is intended to help our students educate In an analysis of such surgical mishaps, a mean themselves about how to maintain their health of $133,055 per event was paid out for 9,744 both at school and beyond, and to become “never events” that resulted in permanent injury ambassadors for change in their local in 32.9% of patients, communities,” she said. “It makes little sense to invest as much as we “These [malpractice] payments do not capture do in preparing young women for leadership the even greater financial burdens of legal fees, additional inpatient and disability care, lost work www.chirotexas.org
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