Competition in health care may not result in better quality
...iatives. Also, competition may be focused more on driving down the plans' premiums, resulting in less attention to quality." Scanlon; Shailender Swaminathan, University of Alabama at Brimingham; Michael Chernew, University of Michigan; James Bost, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences; and John Shevoc...Institute of Medicine news: Human resource crisis in HIV/AIDS
... all of these programs would constitute a critical driving force to carry out the president's plan -- and to build the developing world's capacity to control HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria over time," said study committee chair Fitzhugh Mullan, contributing editor of the journal HEALTH AFFAIRS, and clin...Alcohol-impaired driving on the increase, study shows
...after a long, slow downward trend alcohol-impaired driving has recently increased significantly. From 1993 t...ated annual number of episodes of alcohol-impaired driving (AID) declined at a rate of a little more than one percent per year, from 123 million to 116 million...Number and quality of kidney transplants much greater if national matching program adopted
...tating tasks such as airline scheduling and online driving directions. They then created a mathematical model that uses simulated pools of incompatible donor/recipient pairs to determine if their new matching algorithm might improve matches that can be found in a small (regional) or large (national) pool. ...Nation's leading researchers, scientists reveal findings at occupational therapy conference
...ioners work with older individuals to assess their driving capabilities and define safe limits before adverse events occur. Presenters will focus on ways to keep drivers safer and on the road longer. Musicians Suffer Unnecessarily Musicians are at an increased risk for experiencing pain or discomfort as a ...Nature as important as nurture in developing ability for flexible self-control
Your ability to follow the rules of the road when driving on unfamiliar streets exists thanks to the way your pre-teen life experiences influenced the development of your brain. Individuals deprived of normal life experiences may lack this ability to control their behavior in novel situations, a new compute...U.S. ranks highest worldwide in use of high-tech imaging
...ences, but "who is paying for the studies may be a driving force in image utilization," Dr. Schweitzer said. The study was based on 2001 data from multiple national and regional organizations, vendor data and data from the U.S. Department of Commerce and the World Bank. The study will be presented on May 18 ...Disease progression model of pancreatic cancer developed by Penn researchers
...ncluding pancreatic cancer, and is thought to be a driving force in the transition from local tumor growth to metastases of cancers. According to Hingorani, "This model may prove useful to understanding human pancreatic and other epithelial cancers because the key event of genomic instability that has been ...Diagnostic imaging in line with other hospital costs
...ame. "It's hard to say that diagnostic imaging is driving hospital costs when imaging costs have increased at approximately the same rate as other expenses in healthcare," said study author G. Scott Gazelle, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., director of the MGH Institute for Technology Assessment and associate professor...Imaging may not be major driver of hospital cost increases
...t this result makes it hard to say that imaging is driving increased overall costs," says Gazelle. "A particularly surprising finding suggests that patients with higher imaging costs might have a shorter length of stay, but that observation needs to be confirmed in further studies." He adds that future resea...Doctor 'report cards' may keep some heart patients from getting angioplasties
... public reporting of higher mortality rates may be driving patient selection in New York, but this analysis demonstrates that mortality is not different once you adjust for risk factors," he says. "As the trend toward public reporting grows, and patients and insurers increasingly base their choices on public...True cancer-causing genes revealed by new technique, say Stanford researchers
...thers just tag along, frequently occurring but not driving thecancer to spread. New research under the direction of Paul Khavari, MD,PhD, professor in the Program in Epithelial Biology at the StanfordUniversity School of Medicine and chief of the dermatology service at theVeterans Affairs Palo Alto Healthcar...Changes advocated in license renewals for elderly drivers
...bana-Champaign. The fastest growing segment of the driving population, seniors make up 9 percent (about 19 mi...rtain characteristics associated with aging impair driving performance," Rosenfield said. Perhaps the most serious physical disability is the decreased abilit...Students revamp tractor for use by workers with disabilities
...installing a seat-lifting device and hand-operated driving controls, undergraduate engineers at Johns Hopkins have transformed a tractor to allow people with disabilities to help maintain the grounds of a southern Maryland state park. The project resulted from a request from Donnie Hammett, ranger and manage...Aging eye more susceptible to serious damage, scientists report
...ould use safety systems, such as seat belts, while driving a car and sit as far back from the air bag as is comfortable," said Stitzel, assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Wake Forest University School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. And the researchers call...Alcohol abuse: Early diagnosis is key to treatment success
...ice will become acceptable prior to restoration of driving licenses after a DWI offense. Perhaps it will be one option, that is, 'attend an alcohol program regularly or submit to regular biomarker testing.'" Harris added that biomarker developments discussed at the symposium are critically important for a ......dn't been able to do in years, such as exercising, driving and holidaying abroad. Donors subsequently felt an immense sense of personal satisfaction from donating." Mr. Gill conducted the research as part of his PhD at the School of Nursing and has been invited to present the findings at the British Sociolo...Malpractice litigation wrongly blamed for inconsistent health care
...e of modern medicine, with high insurance premiums driving doctors from the profession and the threat of lawsuits discouraging health-care employees from reporting and correcting medical mistakes. Examining these claims in a lengthy article in the Cornell Law Review and a shorter article in Regulation, a Un...Breath of the dragon: ERS-2 and Envisat reveal impact of economic growth on China's air quality
...nd its interactions with natural phenomena are the driving force in global climate change. "Next we are hoping for follow-up satellite missions, in particular from geostationary orbit to monitor atmospheric pollution, which has a strong diurnal variation and thereby determine objectively the changing atmosp...Pricey new versions of old drugs fuelling huge rise in drug spending
Newly patented versions of old drugs are driving the rapid growth in expenditure on prescription drugs in most developed countries, without offering substantial improvements over existing products, finds a study published online by the BMJ today. The rising cost of using these "me-too" drugs at pri...