National quality agenda, payment reform, care integration keys to improving quality, patient safety
...alth Fund Health Care Opinion Leaders survey finds leaders united behind several key reform measures: more t...n Davis of The Commonwealth Fund find that opinion leaders agree the United States health care system isnt designed to provide high quality health care and cha...Nottingham center to help UK to meet its carbon targets
...n of potential academic, industrial and government leaders in carbon capture and storage will be trained with a broad and interdisciplinary set of skills suitable for their future careers in industry, research or government. One of the technologies that the Centre will work on uses a natural process in co...Support for Children's Health and Medicare Protection Act given to House leaders by ACP
Washington -- In a letter to leaders of the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means, and Energy and Commerce committees, the president of the American College of Physicians (ACP) today expressed support for the Childrens Health and Medicare Preotection (CHAMP) Act of 2007 (H.R. 316...Award winning book co-edited by Rutgers College of Nursing Dean updated with new information
...e also received the SAGE award for mentoring nurse leaders in 2001 from the Illinois Leadership Institute....Advocates ask fashion industry to support braille clothing tags; talking Web site
...nth, Brill and Abushagur will pitch their ideas to leaders of the fashion world during fashion week in Rome, ...annual roundtable, formed in 2002, brings together leaders of the fashion and non-profit worlds to encourage ethical and socially responsible practices. In Jan...Dating violence and sexual assault associated with suicide attempts among urban teens
...h, pediatricians are in a prime position to act as leaders in implementing interventions for families and communities, they conclude. This community engagement will require pediatricians to become a necessary and ongoing linkage to partners outside of the office who are already addressing complex social prob...UC environmental health chair recognized nationally for urologic research excellence
...ept this award on behalf of all the fabulous women leaders in the field of urology and in science. An expert in hormonal carcinogenesis, Ho focuses on the significance of hormones and endocrine disruptors in the development of breast, ovary, endometrial and prostate tumors. In the June 2006 edition of Canc...Adolescents with high-risk sexual attitudes attract peers with similar attitudes
... author. "First, it supports the use of adolescent leaders for preventive interventions. Second, it suggests that interventions that use attitude change to change behavior may be more effective among females than among males." ...Conference to focus on transfer of knowledge from research to practice in emergency medicine
... Barney Eskin have assembled 13 high-profile theme leaders who will give attendees the chance to brainstorm with teams and contribute to an ongoing consensus-based process. Principal Chair Eddy Lang, MD, of McGill University and the Jewish General Hospital, recognizes the importance of the conference. As h...Elsevier announces launch of Brain Stimulation
...fic community, the editorial board consists of key leaders representing the many disciplines involved in brain stimulation research. "The field of brain stimulation represents a new discipline with remarkable potential to reveal brain-behavior relationships and to produce interventions with novel and power...Comparison of patients' access to new and better cancer drugs reveals inequalities between countries
...at Austria, France, Switzerland and the US are the leaders in the use of new cancer drugs, with France replacing Spain among the top four since the 2005 report was published. The authors report that uptake of new cancer drugs is "low and slow" in New Zealand, Poland, Czech Republic, South Africa and the UK...$30 million boost to dementia research
...esearch program is the recruitment ofinternational leaders in the field leaders such as world renowned Clinical Neuroscientist, ProfessorJohn Hodges, currently MRC Professor of Beh...National Autism Conference slated for June
...ersity Kent Campus. Regional, state and national leaders in the study and treatment of autism spectrum disorders will provide strategies, insights and research-based information valuable to implementing assessment-driven models of intervention for schools, health practitioners and families. Families of c...New study probes how religion can help HIV/AIDS patients
...archers began to explore the feelings of religious leaders and congregations about the illness. Previous research showed among other things that black patients claimed to have become more spiritual and that more white than black patients felt alienated from their religious communities after HIV diagnosis. ...Hurricane Katrina evacuees had deep distrust of public health authorities
...en. The distrust was aimed not only at government leaders but extended to people helping with the evacuation. For instance, one person claimed that rescuers ignored her family's pleas for help, and instead "the helicopters were going back and forth getting people from the richer neighborhoods." Another e...Largest ever grant for University of Copenhagenhagen
... Center will house five strong research teams with leaders from the top of the international scene, and the r...tein Research will invite five research teams with leaders from the top of the internal scene. The total staff will be about 100 people. The 4,000-square-metre...$7.5 million NIH grant to Yale for Autism Center of Excellence
...signifies the pooling of resources of the national leaders in genetics research of autism with a view to speed up the discovery of genes and their mechanisms of action....SNM's 54th Annual Meeting speakers address state of molecular imaging/nuclear medicine technologies
...es H. Thrall, one of the nations foremost thought leaders in radiology, addresses The Role of Nuclear Medicine in Shaping 21st Century Medical Imaging during the annual Cassen Lectureship from 9:4511:15 a.m. on Monday, June. 4. Every important trend in 21st century medical imaging was portended by developme...UD receives $1.9 million for new spintronics center
...lots of opportunities for UD researchers to become leaders in the field and involve students, including UD graduate and undergraduate students and Delaware high-school students, in the center's activities. "We already have a strong research nucleus in this area at the University," Xiao said. "We're looking...SCHIP has been successful overall, should be expanded says new health care opinion leaders survey
...am (SCHIP) heats up in Washington, a new survey of leaders in health policy and health care finds that large ...ed, low-income children (65%). Across the board, leaders feel that coverage should be expanded. In fact, 91% of respondents think SCHIP should be made availa...