Tunnell Consulting awarded contract to fight avian flu
...cal expertise to ORDC. Tunnell will supply project managers and a variety of specialists in clinical affairs, process development, manufacturing, scale-up and regulatory affairs to the Pandemic Influenza Program. Tunnell personnel will be supported from the Washington D.C. office of Tunnell's Government Servi...FAO workshop highlights sharing of satellite data
...evelopment planners and humanitarian and emergency managers in need of quick, reliable and up-to-date user-fri...er of users, including policy-makers, planners and managers at national and local levels and citizens. Such services include visualisation of information layers......eceive either telephone calls from prevention care managers or to simply continue with the centers' usual care...s from a bilingual prevention care manager. These managers were trained to provide information on screenings and to respond to a number of common barriers that...Harsh famine ahead for NHS, warn experts
... spending controls were relaxed as politicians and managers concentrated on targets for activity and service delivery, say the authors. The lack of control is most evident with respect to the role of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), in pay negotiations, and in contracting arrangements. A...BMJ Editor calls for independence for the NHS
...a Hewitt spoke of "a few bad apples" - incompetent managers who have failed to balance their books - and a culture of overspending. The managers interviewed on the programme cried foul. They said they had done what the government asked. "If thi...Uniting Africans to save women's lives from postpartum hemorrhage
...dwives and nurses, trainers and educators, project managers and representatives from other USAID missions and international organizations. This groundbreaking event will take place 4-7 April 2006, in Entebbe, Uganda. ACCESS is leading the effort worldwide to reduce maternal mortality through a combination of ...'Sick building syndrome' hallmark of job stress and lack of support, not unhealthy surroundings
...hen sick building syndrome symptoms come to light, managers should "consider causes beyond the physical design and operation of the workplaceto include the organisation of work roles and the autonomy of the workforce," suggest the authors....Smokefree bars policy in New Zealand shows economic benefits and growing support
... smokers went from 22% to 42% and support from bar managers went from 44% to 60%. Caf and restaurant sales grew by 9.3% in 2005....Faxed alerts to physicians may not improve patient antidepressant adherence
...patients by pharmacists, nurses or depression care managers may be more effective. In addition, physicians could become densensitized if they receive too many faxes regarding patients who are actually adherent, which could happen if prescriptions are filled on day 11, if information from the pharmacy is dela...Have targets improved performance in the English NHS?
...erformance measures that are highly predictable to managers and an audit system that is poorly equipped to detect gaming, risks losing credibility, they conclude....Worldwide study looks to find causes of type 1 diabetes
...definitely will have plenty of evidence. Project managers such as Mrs. Hopkins will see study children every three months for the first four years of life and every six months after that to age 15. During that first visit, they will extensively revisit the pregnancy with the mother. Those earliest years ar...Workshop on telemedicine for Africa
... the workshop, which was attended by health policy managers from the African Union, the African e-Commission and African Regional Economics Communities, who are seen as representatives of potential users. Mr Giuseppe Viriglio, ESA's Director of European Union and Industrial Programmes, presented ESA's satell...Malaria early-warning system shows promise in tackling epidemics
... can help provide health professionals and program managers with warnings of epidemics many months in advance.... study, these forecasts can provide health service managers with warnings of changes in epidemic risk five months before the peak malaria season and four months...Cancer patients put at risk by shortage of radiotherapy staff
...er problems for patients. Doctors and radiotherapy managers are faced with the difficult decision to prioritise patients, say the authors, with no clear national guidance or precedent for the unpleasant choices that have to be made. The time has come to agree a national policy to tackle these issues, say the ...Nurses key to success of modern hospitals
...y ways, nursing is the key profession and doctors, managers and politicians must recognise and respect the contribution nurses can and must make, he argues. The response to the current crisis posed by MRSA suggests that this may be happening. The 19th century teaches us that nurses must be central to the runn...Medical College of Wisconsin study
Community-based case managers are much more effective than traditional governmen...ninsured children assigned to community-based case managers were: Substantially more likely to obtain health insurance (96 percent vs. 57 percent of those wit...Telephone-based care improves quality of life for those with anxiety disorders
... can be helped. "Collaborative care" involves care managers who support patients by taking the time needed to ...g support and monitoring progress, the use of care managers can result in much better outcomes for patients. More than 30 million Americans have suffered from a...Study reveals $20 billion in untapped generic drug savings
...sterol. The company is one of the nation's largest managers of pharmacy benefit plans for employers, governments, unions and health plans. The most dramatic savings potential exists for generic gastrointestinals, which are dispensed only 31% nationwide, but could feasibly reach as much as 95% adoption, th...HIV patients face discrimination from doctors
...9%), dentists (32%), hospital staff (31%) and case managers and social workers (8%). "It's illegal to discriminate on the basis of HIV infection. And patients who perceive discrimination may avoid care and ignore treatment recommendations," states lead researcher Mark A. Schuster, MD, PhD, a UCLA professor a......utritiously. The book, intended not only for brand managers but also for health professionals, public policy officials and researchers, identifies 14 problems that now interfere with effective nutrition marketing, such as how consumers turn away from good nutrition, their frustration with the federal recommen...