Employment

As millennial and older physicians can verify, the path to becoming an orthopedic surgeon is long and arduous, filled with years of rigorous education, exams and surgical training.

As millennial and older physicians can verify, the path to becoming a physician is long and arduous, filled with years of rigorous education, exams and residency training.

A 10-year intensive lifestyle intervention designed for weight loss in those with type 2 diabetes and overweight/obesity was tied to significantly higher employment levels compared with diabetes education alone, according to researchers.

A database analysis showed 22% of heart transplant recipients who survived to 1 year and received follow-up were employed full time at 1 year and nearly 33% were employed at 2 years after transplant.

In The Netherlands, 56% of kidney transplant recipients reported employment, according to data published in the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Approximately 27% of patients with a rheumatic disease experienced a change in employment status during the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to survey results published in The Lancet Rheumatology.

Patients on maintenance dialysis in Taiwan were employed for fewer years during their lifetime than individuals from the general population without kidney failure.

County-level improvements in markers for economic prosperity such as median employment, housing occupancy, income and education may be associated with reductions in CV death, researchers reported.

Job insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a significant mental health burden among young adults, according to study results published in Journal of Adolescent Health.

Measures of depression symptom severity, employment status and refractoriness appeared to predict outcomes of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation, or rTMS, among individuals with major depressive disorder, according to an analysis of a randomized noninferiority trial published in EClinicalMedicine.