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Contagious and Infectious Diseases


Recent Articles about Contagious and Infectious Diseases

Two Pharmaceutical Companies Join Forces

Merging two struggling biotech firms from opposite sides of the globe solved a lot of financial problems—despite some logistical headaches.  Read more

Would You Fire Someone for Refusing to Get a Flu Shot?

Some Michigan hospitals are making flu shots and other vaccines mandatory for employees.  Read more

What Is Small Business? (And Can It Afford Health Insurance?)

A report on National Public Radio last Saturday laid out a debate that may so...  Read more

The Zealot: Mission Critical

Sometimes the fastest way to get a job done is to start your own company.  Read more

Program Helps People with AIDS Be Productive Workers

Today' s treatments help people with HIV and AIDS live longer, more productive lives, but manycompanies haven' t kept up with the good news. "Emplo...  Read more

Setting Up an AIDS Policy

The best time to write a company policy for employees with AIDS is before someone comes forward with the news that he or she is HIV-positive. After manage...  Read more

Collaborative Effort Produces AIDS Education Kit

Business releases AIDS education product.  Read more

AIDS: I'll Think About It Tomorrow

Chart on employee disabilities, AIDS AIDS education.  Read more

Your Company and AIDS

Resources available on HIV AIDS education programs.  Read more

Health Crisis;

MORE THAN 12,000 PEOPLE are likely to get acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in the next year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. For ...  Read more

AIDS in the Workplace

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease that impairs the human immune system and renders it susceptible to infections that would be repell...  Read more

Flu Shot Shortage Could Hurt Business Productivity

Oct. 14, 2004 --American workers may be at increased risk of catching the flu this season as a result of a shortage of vaccinations and th...  Read more

Into Africa

Yes, you can do business there.  Read more

The Business Lesson of AIDS

How a company responds to AIDS reveals much about how it faces reality.  Read more

Companies Remain Unprepared for Bird Flu

A new survey shows the majority of business leaders believe a bird-flu pandemic is imminent, but have no contingency plans in place.  Read more

Spam for Money

The author, or authors, behind SoBig and other recent viruses seems to be using those insidious e-mail attachments to make a profit. Today's New York Time...  Read more

The Bite, the Snack and the Meal

Writing good Web content is a lot like planning a big dinner party. You're looking forward to inviting lots of guests, but you're not sure when the...  Read more

Clean Your Cell Phone - Avoid Swine Flu

A couple of years ago we found out that germ-a-phobes had something new to worry about - their cellphones were Read more

The Bite, the Snack and the Meal

Writing good Web content is a lot like planning a big dinner party. You're looking forward to inviting lots of guests, but you're not sure when the...  Read more

The AIDS Video

Video recommendation: 'The Los Altos Story," a short film about a small-business community struck by AIDS.  Read more

Attention Business Travelers: Google Maps Tracking Swine Flu

If you travel for work or pleasure, here's a link you may want to save. It's a Google Earth mashup Read more

Curing Computer Viruses

Preventing computer viruses with virus-checking software.  Read more

Most Businesses Unprepared For Swine Flu Outbreak

A Harvard survey exposes a lack of preparation in the business community and vulnerabilities in the workforce of smaller companies.  Read more

Testing Positive

Companies on the frontlines of West Nile and SARS.  Read more

What are Macroviruses?

These viruses targeted Microsoft Office applications but appeared to be beaten. Do you need to prepare for a comeback?  Read more

Wi-Fi Viruses?

Researchers at Indiana University in Bloomington figured out that, at least in theory, Wi-Fi routers could be infected with a virus and spread the virus t...  Read more

Community Service and Company Gain

Profile of one CEO who has taken a leave of absence to concentrate on charity work.  Read more

Giving Back

Some cynics might think Bill Gates' campaign against AIDS in Africa is just a PR effort on behalf of Microsoft. But, as Nicholas D. Kristof suggests in hi...  Read more

CEO Passions: Hosting Benefit Concerts

Steven Gluckstern, CEO of Ivivi Health Sciences, turns his apartment into a concert hall to raise money for charity.  Read more

The Right Thing

VP sent letter to 500 clients and vendors on behalf of AIDS-stricken employee and received more than 100 donations.  Read more

Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz

Quote about the origins of Alka-Seltzer, from the 'The Aspirin Wars'.  Read more

System Alert: You've Got...Worms

As anyone who has an e-mail account knows, the past few weeks have seen unprecedented virus attacks on computers around the world. With names like Sobig, ...  Read more

Linux vs. Windows

Back in the June 2000 issue of Inc . magazine, writer Dan Orzech contemplated the advantages and disadvantages of Linux for small businesses in "<...  Read more

Prevent Malicious Attacks on Your Business Data

Viruses are pieces of foreign code (programs) introduced into your system to perform unauthorized acts against your internal network. Some of the viruses ...  Read more

Hotline

New trends in the small business world.  Read more

Case Study: Attempting a Global Merger

The CEOs lived on different continents and barely knew each other. Could they make a deal work?  Read more

More Workers Paying for Flu Shots

Employers are shifting workplace health costs onto employees, a study shows.  Read more

How Business Travelers Can Avoid Swine Flu

Experts say businesses and their employees must take precautions against the seasonal flu and the H1N1 virus on the road.  Read more

Beamed Clean

New business creates an environmentally safe alternative to incinerating medical waste.  Read more

Smart Self-Funding

Self-funding for medical benefits is becoming increasingly popular, but small companies should take precautions.  Read more

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