ACP-ASIM releases plan to eliminate uninsured by 2009
...eady in place and functioning. Under the Colleges proposal a subsidized health insurance program would be ava... Health Insurance Programs (S-CHIPs), the ACP-ASIM proposal calls for a premium subsidy program, starting with individuals with incomes between 100 and 200% of ...Physics tip sheet #11 - May 1, 2002
...nal electrons are well known but this is the first proposal for making fractional atoms. The system uses a Fermi-Dirac gas, analogous to a Bose-Einstein condensate but for different types of atoms. Physical Review Focus: http://focus.aps.org/v9/st21.html Journal article: http://link.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v8...Medicare+Choice bills may stop exodus of plans, but are not likely to expand enrollment in HMOs
...our different policy options. President Bush's M+C proposal would yield a stable enrollment, declining from 5.... a decline of about 1 million enrollees by 2005. A proposal by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission would cause enrollment to drop by 2 million, to 3.3 mill...Antibiotics help heart patients
...those who took a placebo. "It is an interesting proposal that antibiotics can affect a condition that has always been regarded as noninfectious," says Mendall, also a senior lecturer at St. George's Medical School, Tooting, London. "The question, of course, is whether the antibiotics are working against ...Preliminary study shows high-dose coenzyme Q10 slows functional decline in Parkinson's patients
...lts and the Parkinson Study Group are developing a proposal to carry out a larger study to confirm their results. He added that an equally important outcome of the recently completed clinical trial was that it provided an efficient design for studies, such as this one, of drugs that might slow the progressio...St. Jude to receive multi-million dollar grant for sickle cell program
...grant is estimated to exceed $9 million. The grant proposal includes five local projects focusing on stem cell...d molecular biology of hemoglobin development. The proposal also includes a multi-center project examining the effectiveness of the drugs hydroxyurea and magnes...Cholesterol drug could lead to new therapy for multiple sclerosis
...nford University. Zamvil, of UCSF, has submitted a proposal to the Immune Tolerance Network(1) to conduct a multi-center clinical trial to see if the drug could be used to prevent conversion to definite multiple sclerosis in individuals who have had a first attack, known as a "clinically isolated syndrome." U...In Health Affairs interview, Breaux outlines plan to cover uninsured
BETHESDA, MD - A new proposal requiring all Americans to buy health insurance co... in Bethesda, Maryland, Breaux outlined his recent proposal to extend coverage to all Americans -- including the 41 million uninsured people -- as well as his p...Report urges Congress to increase medical research
... Americans," according to the report. This budget proposal comes just one year after the historic bipartisan effort to double the budget of the NIH. The Task Force report, endorsed by more than 57 national not-for-profit research and patient-support organizations, specifically urges Congress to increase the...Chemist works to prevent undesirable side effects in synthetic drugs
...e organic chemistry this coming year. Crawford's proposal was one of 12 funded out of 122 submitted in chemistry, physics, and astronomy from universities across the country. Crawford is the third faculty member in Virginia Tech's Department of Chemistry -- along with Brian Tissue and Paul Deck -- to receiv...Robo-thespians help mothers of kids with cancer
...ional Institutes for Health positively evaluated a proposal to create a version of CBI for handhelds, so that mothers may at some point be able to carry around a version of the help CBI offers. "The new generation of these devices have enough computing power and able enough displays to potentially put a couns...UCR scientists to study effects of ethanol in automobile exhaust and emissions
...J. Wayne Miller , were awarded the grant for their proposal "Effects of Ethanol and Volatility Parameters on Exhaust and Evaporative Emissions." In the past decade, to create cleaner burning gasoline, various compounds have been added to fuel to reduce emissions. California petroleum processing plants are in...Finding the link between fat and high blood pressure
...rshfield says, which is why he opted to pursue the proposal request from the National Heart, Lung and Blood In...anding investigative team," reviewers of the grant proposal wrote. "The goal of this study is to test a hypothesis that links adolescent obesity to cardiovascul...Duke leaders propose overhaul of health care and the practice of medicine
...scientific tools, know-how and common sense. Their proposal calls for a major redirection of health care from treating disease to effectively preventing or minimizing it. The revised health-care system should be built on a prospective approach to medicine that emphasizes personal health planning, say co-autho...Diabetic eye screening bill based on Vanderbilt model
... get their eyes checked, and at lower cost." "My proposal builds on the success of innovative programs, such as the one already in operation at Vanderbilt," Cooper added. "Their results validate the need for early diagnosis and treatment everywhere." "It is now very clear that early detection and t......been concluded yet, but the board is considering a proposal to impose stricter regulations nationwide on particle mass [size] and chemical composition....The BESST way to judge IVF success
...istic people should measure," Healy says. Healy's proposal has caught the attention of large fertility societies such as the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology, which invited him to write a report for its journal (Human Reproduction, vol 19, p 3). But it is not clear whether any country wi...U.S. push for diesel poses risk to public health, scientists say
...ers . He added, ''It is a surprise to me that this proposal was made before its possible effect on public health was evaluated.'' The main component of smog is ozone. In the upper atmosphere it absorbs intense cancer-causing ultraviolet radiation from the sun and prevents it from reaching Earth. In the lower ...UC San Diego scientists unveil pilot project for automated monitoring of animal behavior
...yment inside a full-scale vivarium is still in the proposal stages. Noted Belongie: "We are now hoping to embark on a multi-million-dollar project that would allow us to develop and deploy the technology for two key areas -- medical research, and emergency response." UCSD is a major biological sciences resear...Leading cancer doctor calls for new guidelines to control early reporting from clinical trials
...h curative therapy exists. I will be putting this proposal to the Breast International Group and, if deemed appropriate, it will be discussed with its closest partner, the North American Breast Intergroup." Her remarks come hot on the heels of the announcement last week that exemestane, a steroidal aromatase...