New 'Body-Friendly' Fat Substitute
...arch conferences, andprovides educational, science policy and career programs in chemistry. Its mainoffices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbus, Ohio....Reduced Heart Disease Risk In Middle Age Lowers Eventual Medicare Costs
...study underscore the soundness of anational health policy that emphasizes primary prevention and control of allthree major risk factors for cardiovascular disease -- adverse cholesterollevels, adverse blood pressure and cigarette smoking. Such a strategy, she said,would not only control the epidemic of coro...Future Workers Will Receive MSAs
...ntain," says Roger Battistella,professor of health policy and management at Cornell, writing in the next iss...uld purchase a singlecatastrophic health insurance policy for their work force offering basicfee-for-service benefits. However the policy would carry an annua...Comprehensive Effort Needed To Prevent And Treat Traumatic Injuries
... ofMedicine. The report calls for a new national policy to reduce injuriesfrom firearms that builds on lessons learned in the successful campaign againstmotor vehicle injuries. It urges federal, state, and local officials toincrease their support for injury prevention programs, emergency medicalservices,...Study Shows Foreign-Trained Doctors Can Ease Rural Physician Shortages
...he researcherssaid. "There appears to be a policy consensus that this country has too manyphysicians and that reducing the number of international medical graduatesallowed to practice in the U.S. will ease the problem," said Baer, a NationalService Research Award fellow. International medi...American Association Of Pharmaceutical Scientists Announces 1998 Award Winners
...Jeffrey A. Kotzan, Ph.D. Dr. Kotzan's research in policy and health outcomes is allowing policy makers tomake more effective decisions regarding the pharmaceutical needs of impoverishedpopulations...New drugs, diagnostic tests, software needed to prepare US cities for chemical, biological attacks
...vate, non-profit organization that provides health policy advice under acongressional charter. The National Research Council -- the principal operatingarm of the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering -- provides scienceand technology advice under the same charter. Copies of Chemical and Biologic...... The researchers examined a potential industrial policy to keep all fourcurrent vaccine manufacturers in the loop, and thus perhaps avoid furtherconsolidation in the industry with resultant higher prices. They found such apolicy would raise overall costs about $13 per child compared to notguaranteeing all...WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. -- A Medicare policy designed to reduce the cost oftreating precancerou...e Forest University School ofMedicine. The policy can leave patients in pain and increase the risk that thelesions, called actinic keratoses, can deve...Women With Cancer Want More Control
...to healing. The book points to fundamental medical policy matters, such as providingsufficient funds to evaluate nontoxic (or less toxic) alternatives that mightprovide some answers that have eluded cancer researchers for decades. Aspatients learn more about the disease, Hess says, the ethics of medical pra......ylor Jr., an assistantresearch professor of public policy studies at Duke and one of the study'sauthors, in an interview. "But we did find evidence that such teaching hospitalsdid deliver better results." To calculate costs, the Duke researchers looked at Medicare payments forthe initial hospital tr......lth care? A new report by UC San Francisco health policy researchers says a rigorousevaluation of the syste...k, PhD, MPH, UCSF professor of medicine and health policy andassociate director of the UCSF Institute for Health Policy Studies. "Rigorousevaluations must be...Management Academy To Boost Training For Local, State Public Health Departments
...r a one-week programcovering financial management, policy development, civic entrepreneurship, humanresources and strategic management. After returning home, they will continue tostudy additional topics through the World Wide Web as well as byvideoconferences originating from Chapel Hill. Participants will ...Who Cares For You When You're Ill
...obson, associateprofessor of health management and policy at the University of Michigan Schoolof Public Heal...r, a health consultant at the RAND Corp., a public policy researchinstitution in Santa Monica, Calif., and a professor of public health dentistry,School of De...Study Of Women And Hearing Reveals Need For Routine Hearing Tests
...s of confidence. "Our study indicates that public policy must be amended to include hearing careas an integral part of all health maintenance plans," Garstecki said. "Ourresults underscore the likelihood that a significant proportion of older womenhave undiagnosed and untreated hearing loss," Erler added. ...Slowing Excess Weight Gain In Childhood Appears To Reduce Adult Heart Disease Risk
...d childhood obesitypredicts adult obesity. Public policy needs to develop a strategy for healthierchildren without turning the childhood population into weight and dietoverreactors." The problem, acknowledges Sinaiko, requires new strategies to helpchildren, their parents and physicians cope with i...Rice, Medical Center Institutions Join Forces On Health Initiative
... As another component of this cooperative health policy initiative,Baylor College of Medicine has joined R...d chair for ascholar who will specialize in health policy and health economics. Tarlov is currently executive director of the Health Institute at theN...IOM Report Offers New Look At U.S. Vaccine Priorities
...and development. "We expect that the NIH and other policy makers in government, academia andindustry will fi...d. "We are pleased that this model provides U.S. policy makers with a common toolto compare vastly divergent health conditions that might be treated or prev......0s are now being curtailed littleby little. Public policy researchers should monitor the consequences of this forinfant health," adds the Penn State researcher....A new study by UC San Francisco health policy researchers has found that age,severity of illness...ostly to treat. "Our data suggest that the recent policy change that places severely illpatients high on the waiting list could lead to a substantial increas...