Mental health service costs offset by savings in other public sectors
...dopt the system of care approach through a federal initiative funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). The Penn State study focused on one of these communities in Stark County, Ohio, and compared it with a non-system-of-care ...The European Society of Cardiology launches Women at Heart
...Society of Cardiology (ESC) today launches its new initiative Women at Heart at the Spring Meeting of its 49 Nat... Myers Squibb Foundation for their support of this initiative and their clear commitment to the importance of European women's heart health. Through Women at Hea...Mountaineering doctors hike medicine to new heights with Xtreme Everest
...hat aid survival in extreme altitudes. A separate initiative called Project Everest will recruit over 1000 volunteers to take part in cardiovascular fitness research at UCL in the run up to the expedition. Participants will undergo Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing (CPEX) which will measure their heart rate and...Liverpool to lead 20M Department of Health initiative to develop medicines for children
... inappropriate dosing or inadequate efficacy. The initiative will take the development of children's medicines ...new Co-ordinating Centre. She said: "This national initiative has the potential to make a real difference for children, parents and prescribers by making sure tha...Cardiologists underestimate racial and ethnic disparities in care
...lege of Cardiology also has an in-hospital quality initiative and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation recently launched a quality improvement initiative focused directly on reducing disparities. "In the long run, no single intervention is likely to redu...Euroscience Open Forum 2006 launches call for proposals
...s organised annually by Wissenschaft im Dialog, an initiative of the Stifterverband fr die Deutsche Wissenschaft and other German science-funding organisations. In its work ESOF2006 is supported by a number of committees. The Steering Committee is chaired by Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Heckl, General Director of the De...Philanthropist Paul F. Glenn launches labs for aging research at Harvard Medical School
... Mr. Glenn, the Glenn Foundation and HMS that this initiative will serve as a catalyst for attracting new investigators and donors to support this important field of research. "We are very hopeful that during this five year commitment we are able to build on the momentum we have generated and spur the creation...Houston meeting kicks off collaboration to advance cancer research
...al College London met here today to launch a joint initiative aimed at advancing scientific discovery of novel cancer therapies. The agreement builds upon professional relationships between clinicians and researchers at both institutions and represents another step forward in the global fight to eradicate cance...Study examines consequences of Thailand's 'war on drugs'
...criticized by a number of human rights groups. The initiative was intended to reduce the supply and demand for i...rcent of study participants said they believed the initiative was "good," ostensibly because it might keep others from initiating drug use. "Some participants in ...University of Manchester awarded 826k for brain science and mental health research
...s one of our key priorities. Our joint aim in this initiative is to improve support for trials of new treatments and other high quality research, to help find the most effective ways of caring for patients. These grants will help patients by speeding up the translation of research from laboratory to the clinic...Job satisfaction? Not much for Britain's hard slog 'robot' workers
...ple having less personal responsibility and use of initiative in their work, combined with an increase in the effort required. "It was implausible to blame job insecurity, because over this period unemployment had fallen and other evidence suggested a falling sense of insecurity during the latter part of the 19...Promising new strategy for Swedish medical research
...arolinska Institutet are planning an international initiative to map out the relationships between health, genes and lifestyle. Discussion partners include world-leading researchers from the USA, Britain, Singapore and Norway. The project has the working title "LifeGene". If realised, it could be classed as one...Sprinklers shown effective in slowing dorm fires
...s,* supported by a U.S. Fire Administration (USFA) initiative for fire safety in college housing, compared the hazards of fires in smoke detector-equipped dormitories with and without fire sprinklers in the room of fire origin. Researchers started fires in a day room or lounge area open to the corridor of a dor...Leadership gift from Sulpizio Family for new state-of-the-art cardiovascular center at UCSD
...term gift contributes to a multi-year fund-raising initiative for the UCSD Cardiovascular Center. To date, $30 million has been raised which has allowed the campus to begin formal planning for the construction of the new facility which will be located near the John M. and Sally B. Thornton Hospital on the unive...Early HIV screening prolongs life and is affordable, Stanford study shows
...e unaware of their HIV-positive status. A 2003 CDC initiative recommended making voluntary testing a routine part of medical care, yet Owens said screening is still not widespread. (Money is an issue, he said, as well as disagreement among experts over whether blanket or targeted screening is more effective.) T...New breast cancer test could save lives
...ust (UBHT), the University of Bristol's enterprise initiative and the Sulis Seedcorn fund, which recently awarded over 100,000 of venture capital to the project. Commercialisation of the project has been driven by SETsquared, the high-tech support programme for very early stage ventures. SETsquared is part o...Government approach to cutting hospital stays may be misleading
...n with care to ensure that the true effect of this initiative on emergency admissions is measured," adds Professor Jill Morrison in an accompanying editorial. She believes that the wider impact of the plan to transfer 3000 experienced district nurses or other health professionals from their current roles to und...Dartmouth awarded $21.8 million NSF grant
... Currently, the National Science Foundation's SLC initiative encompasses four core projects based around the country to enhance understanding of the human learning process. Dartmouth joins Boston University, Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Washington in this effort. Lynne E. Bernstein, the NSF......gram office for SCI. The SCI program is a national initiative of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that works with states to plan, execute, and maintain health insurance expansions, as well as to improve the availability and affordability of health care coverage. Details on the SCI program are available at ww......orities of the healthcare system. The aim of this initiative is to set up a programmatic framework able to host research, development and pilot utilisation activities in the field of telemedicine via satellite. To this end, a Telemedicine Working Group has been set up, composed mainly of users (health professi...