Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Walgreens has 23 fewer stores than it had in April. Fear not, they are located in major cities like NYC or D.C., where they make up 50% percent of the pharmacies in those metro areas.

Cvs has 7,800 stores, but it will be getting about  1,700 from Target. (Target is still hiring in some areas!)
MPR news

Rite aid has 4560 stores
Business wire.

Downtown stores
So birling is a game where lumberjacks try to balance on a floating log. What might happen? One could fall and break a bone.

There is a researcher whose surname is almost the same. Bierling and the subject is fractures.   
J Arthroplasty. 2014 Feb;29(2):443-7. doi: 10.1016/j.arth.2013.06.018. Epub 2013 Jul 26.
Age-dependent fracture risk in hip revisions with radial impaction grafting technique: a 5-10 year medium-term follow-up study.
 Chomrikh L1, Gebuhr P2, Bierling R3, Lind U4, Zwart HJ1.
  
1Department of Orthopaedics, Annatommie, Rijswijk, Netherlands.
2Department of Orthopaedics, Hvidovre Hospital, Hvidovre, Denmark.
3Department of Orthopaedics, Haukeland University Hospital, Kysthospitalet i Hagevik, Hagevik, Norway.
4Department of Orthopaedics, Södersjukhuset, Stockholm, Sweden.
Abstract
Radial impaction grafting (RIG) potentially improves the durability and reliability of cementing the femoral components in revision total hip arthroplasty (THA). In this multicenter, prospective study, 88 revision THAs (87 patients) with RIG technique were performed. The average follow-up time was 7.0 years (range, 5.0-10.2). There were 14 femur fractures: 2 intraoperative, 5 within 3 months after surgery, and 7 later in the postoperative stage (range, 5-84 months). Sixteen patients were lost to follow-up and 20 died without stem re-revision. None of the patients have been re-revised for any reason during follow-up. Age was observed to be a significant factor for determining fracture risk. In conclusion, RIG can be considered a reliable surgical technique, especially for younger patients.

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

From Medical Economics journal: Coworker steals. Coworker denied it. Evidence presented showing the crime. Author says I will not trust you. Coworker sorry the author doesn't trust the coworker. While it doesn't say the type of sickness, if the author wants to vomit feel free to click the link below for sympathy since misery loves company.

CVS and college systems probably don't want to think about this abbreviation and them.
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