Increased Public Access To Defibrillation Could Prove Potentially Cost-Effective And Life-Saving
... placed? How much does it cost? In a 1996 poll of state emergency medical system (EMS) directors, only27 states permitted non-emergency first responders to use AEDs. Only six states-- California, Florida, Maine, Maryland, North Dakota and Texas -- allowed thelay public to use AEDs. "The ...The Whole Truth From Five-Year-Olds
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Philadelphia, June 14, 1999- A recent poll of 800 Pennsylvania voters indicatedthat they woul...commended it beused for anti-smoking programs. The poll was conducted by Eagle Consulting Group for The CommonwealthFoundation, a non-partisan public-policy...Many Virginians would increase taxes for K-12 education, study finds
...ardsand state legislators should be aware of these poll results before makingpossibly unpopular decisions in response to unrepresentative pressure groups." Additional public spending issues More than half of people living outside of the urban crescent said therewas too little public spending on ......out the results of the Outcomes Conference on-site poll and discussed other relevant issues brought forth by participants. The no-holds-barred session generated great debate, innovative solutions and more questions to consider as the healthcare and pharmacy industries move forward. The Future Of The Pharm...New UNC center plans intensive studies of retired athletes suffering disabilities
...ginia University School of Medicine, conducted the poll between 1996 and 1997 and received responses from 1,094 ex-athletes, said Dr. Keven Guskiewicz of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who recently re-analyzed responses to develop new data. Retired players ranged in age from 27 to 86 whe...Cost, availability of insurance and drugs top health care worries
...bility of health care, close to the 63 percent his poll found in April/May 2001 and up from 48 percent in November/December 2001. The cost of health care remains Americans' top health care concern, as it was before and immediately after September 11, according to Blendon's survey. Eighteen percent named h......te, understanding, honest and empathetic reveals a poll carried out in this week's BMJ. Over 100 people from 24 countries responded to two questions posted on the BMJ website ( bmj.com ): 'what makes a good doctor?' and 'how can we make one?' In response to the first question 70 qualities were listed inc...New research links lung cancer screening to accelerated rates of smoking cessation
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...to a University of Rochester survey. The anonymous poll was designed to measure whether the state Department of Health's system of tracking doctor's cardiac death rates has an impact on how doctors make treatment decisions and what types of patients they choose to accept. The study published in the Jan. ...