Addicted Doctors Need Special Service
...althcare professionals and there should be special arrangements for supervision and post-treatment monitoring. The authors conclude that the phenomenon of the addicted doctor may shock and offend, but nevertheless must be addressed by both the profession and employers as an important cause of impaired performanc...Better Integration Of Long-Term And Acute Care Of Elderly Needed
...d for hospital admission as well as improvement in arrangements for early discharge and rehabilitation in the community. Contact: Dr David Melzer, Clinical Senior Research Associate, Department of Community Medicine, University of Cambridge, Institute of Public Health, Cambridge dm214@medschl.cam.ac.uk...Millennium, Aventis Pharma form novel alliance
...his alliance is the establishment of four separate arrangements covering Inflammation, Technology Development, Technology Transfer and an Equity Investment. Under a Technology Transfer Agreement, Millennium will provide Aventis with rights to its drug discovery technologies in exchange for payments of up to $200...Award-winning book looks at responsibility for sick babies in hospitals
...ey show how social organizations and institutional arrangements sometimes support and at other times hinder individual responsibility....Chemical societies of Pacific rim nations
...e conference. For further information about press arrangements at Pacifichem, contact Charmayne Marsh at (202)872-4445 or at newsroom@acs.org . The housing deadline is Friday, November 10, 2000. More than 9,000 scientists are expected in Honolulu for the congress and an estimated 8,500 papers have been subm...Crystallographers meet in Los Angeles
...hings, crystallographers study the detailed atomic arrangements of protein crystals which gives researchers insight into the nature of living organisms, and can lead to advances in pharmaceutical drug and vaccine development. Some highlights from the meeting include: Symposium of using crystallography for st...Dog tired? It could be your pooch
...ts and make a personal decision about the sleeping arrangements in the household. Some people are very attached to their pets and will tolerate poorer sleep in order to be near them at night."...Examining the effects of managed care on alcohol and other drug treatment
... managed care organizations as well as contracting arrangements will affect accessing alcohol and other drug (AOD) treatment. AOD treatment seeking, entry and completion are three successive but distinct stages of success. Introducing managed care to the Massachusetts Medicaid population reduced AOD treatment cos...Eficiency, feasibility of antiretroviral therapy in Africa demonstrated in IRD-coordinated surveys
...nue. This research has helped define the practical arrangements necessary in African health and hygiene situations for setting up a public health programme to take charge of Aids control using antiretroviral drugs. They also reveal that there is little circulation of these medicines in the informal markets. In Se...Few lessons are learnt from NHS inquiries
...es or guidelines on how to run an inquiry, and few arrangements exist to carry learning about the inquiry process over from one inquiry to another. Inquiry reports are often long, and many produce similar findings despite addressing failures in the quality of care which on the face of it have little in common, ad...Pharmaceutical industry still failing health needs of less-developed countries
...ould be enhanced by widespread voluntary licensing arrangements with the growing number of pharmaceutical companies in developing countries and freer trade between countries with varying amounts of manufacturing capacity, by removing export restrictions on some generic drugs. The knowledge and technical expertise...Joint-custody arrangements good for children of divorce -- but only if there is no parental conflict
...ren in physical joint-custody arrangements showed fewer behavioral probl..."Both sole and joint custody can be good parenting arrangements and both can be bad. It all depends on what happens in the ...Women vets get less on-site specialty care at VA facilities
...er staffed facilities. VA sites that used off-site arrangements to provide these services were two to three times ...ces to VA users," Washington says. Although these arrangements did add up to comprehensive coverage for the veterans in most cases, they "may make it more difficul...Less invasive kidney transplant technique spurring donations
... (Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital has made arrangements for Dr. Laskow, a living kidney donation recipient and her donor to be available for interviews August 26. Please contact Kristen Walsh John Patella at (732) 937-8521 to arrange.) Donating a kidney through the traditional "open" method typically req...Deadly decision: Where should baby sleep?
...ts, it is difficult to control potential hazardous arrangements causing suffocation," Dr. Kemp says. "Infant deaths diagnosed as suffocation in adult beds and on sofas are being increasingly reported in the U.S. while suffocation deaths in cribs are declining." The study looked at reported deaths during the four-...Multi-hospital angioplasty improvement effort reduces deaths and complications
...nt it is for sites without surgical backup to have arrangements for transferring patients immediately if there's a complication requiring surgery, or if the cardiac catheterization identifies problems that warrant urgent or emergency surgery," says Moscucci. Impact of other vascular disease on angioplasty outcom......should be withdrawn from pharmacies; and voluntary arrangements with manufacturers should be replaced with legislation to make junk-food manufacturers 'clean up their act'. These are the conclusions of this week's Lancet editorial commenting on the recently published report from the UK Food Standards Agency (FSA)...Ten percent of employees experience work-family conflict
...ively combine their work and home roles. Work time arrangements are a starting point for avoiding or reducing such...he work and home situations. The role of work time arrangements in the development of such a conflict was particularly striking. For example, working shifts, freque...New act will restrict patient choice
...al longer than necessary. From 2006, new financial arrangements will also mean that hospitals make a loss by continuing to care for any patient who stays longer than the "average length of stay." These measures could see the chronically sick and older patients being forced into accommodation which is inappropriat...Major risk factors identified for sudden infant death syndrome
...eping position, type of bedding used, and sleeping arrangements strongly suggest a basis for further substantial reductions in SIDS incidence rates."...