RAND study finds vaccination of nursing home staff, residents, key to reducing flu outbreak
...d today by the RAND Corporation. The study by the nonprofit research organization found that nursing homes were 60 percent less likely to have a cluster of influenza-like illness cases if more than 55 percent of the staff and more than 89 percent of the residents were vaccinated for influenza. Researchers d...Want fair and affordable health insurance for the uninsured? Ask the public to design it
...ifornia HealthCare Foundation and organized by the nonprofit Sacramento Healthcare Decisions, used a game-like computer program called CHAT (Choosing Healthplans All Together) developed by University of Michigan and National Institutes of Health researchers. Individually, and in small and large groups, the 79...RAND study shows little public money spent on health care to undocumented immigrants
...n-born counterparts, according to the study by the nonprofit research organization. The report which appears in the November edition of the journal Health Affairs estimates that in the United States about $1.1 billion in federal, state and local government funds are spent annually on health care for undocu...Soot from wood stoves in developing world impacts global warming more than expected
...s, according to Trees, Water & People, an American nonprofit agency which, along with the Honduran Association ...uch," Roden said. Trees, Water & People and other nonprofit agencies are distributing new low-cost, wood-burning cook stoves in Honduras and other Latin America...AACR CEO Margaret Foti receives cancer service award
...ers. She has also been a consultant to a number of nonprofit organizations and has lectured widely at academic institutions in the United States and abroad. Foti has received many national and international awards for her contributions to cancer research including: the American Association for Cancer Research...Access to science enhanced by new NIH-ASH agreement
... signed an agreement that creates a new option for nonprofit publishers to comply with the NIH's Public Access ... new option was originally developed by a group of nonprofit publishers and includes the following provisions: 1) Participating nonprofit publishers will submit...US educators review Jordan's nursing programs
...is sponsored by the Hussein Fund for Excellence. A nonprofit organization supported by Jordan's banking sector, the fund was established in 1999 to enhance and improve the quality of the country's higher education among other goals. The Hussein Fund is working with the Center for Quality Assurance in Intern...Two UCSF faculty named fellows of the American Academy of Nursing
... director of research at the Institute on Aging, a nonprofit in San Francisco. Dowling is a leader in designing improvements in health-care delivery for older adults with neurological impairments. She served on the NIH committee that developed national government research priorities for Alzheimer's disease, pr...Mount Sinai Global Health Center receives $1M grant
...million dollar grant from the Mulago Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to humanitarian aid. Distributed over a three-year period, the grant will support faculty and finance curriculum development, international research and trips to developing countries. The grant will also help build partnerships...Duke University study finds hearing aids are underused
...mpleted treatment or received care. InHealth is a nonprofit research and education organization that studies the role, impact and value of medical technology through non-restricted grants to independent, academic investigators. "Hearing aids are a great example of how medical technology can have a profound ef...Study finds sizeable underutilization of hip and knee replacement procedures
...th: The Institute for Health Technology Studies, a nonprofit research and education organization whose mission is to examine the role, impact and value of medical technology, thereby enhancing a climate of health care innovation for public benefit. "Clearly, there is a need for more evidence-based research on...Studies unclear whether spinal cement procedure improves back pain
...thors conclude. The review is published by ECRI, a nonprofit health services research agency that produces technology assessments on medical devices, drugs, biotechnologies and procedures. A surgeon performing percutaneous kyphoplasty inserts a balloon into a patient's fractured vertebrae, inflates the balloon...University of Utah to help build bionic arm
...lity and Microintegration) a branch of the German nonprofit contract research organization Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft will get up to $209,972 over two years and a total of $566,724 over four years. Fraunhofer IZM will help develop a system to supply electrical power wirelessly to the electrode array. It also wi...Data shows use of a combination vaccine increased on-time immunization rates in infants
...althcare Health Plans, Incorporated, an integrated nonprofit health plan. Infants who were eligible for the study were distributed into two matched cohorts: the combination group (n=1,135) was made up of those who received at least one dose of PEDIARIX [Diphtheria and Tetanus Toxoids and Acellular Pertussis A...Should we ban consumer drug ads? - Press release from PLoS Medicine
...from DTCA, argues Peter Mansfield (Director of the nonprofit organization Healthy Skepticism, at www.healthyskepticism.org), there is stronger evidence of harms. In his critique of DTCA, Mansfield says that "DTCA is limited to drugs that are profitable to advertise: mostly expensive, new drugs for long-term u...$13.7 million in gifts support UI Center For Macular Degeneration
...ases. Second, it will help us expand our model for nonprofit genetic testing laboratory to an international level. The combination of these things will bring hope -- and some very real help -- to countless patients affected by heritable blinding eye diseases." Stone also expressed appreciation to Gary and Cami...Clinical trial Buddy Program among innovative support offerings from the Colon Cancer Alliance
...dback from patients and caregivers. This year the nonprofit plans to add live operators to its help-line, develop patient education materials in Spanish, distribute more free materials to doctors and hospitals, add more guest speakers to on-line chats, continue to grow its local chapter program, Voices, and e...Awards totaling $6.2 million to create major genetic testing lab at University of Iowa
...nce its mission with the creation of a large-scale nonprofit genetic testing laboratory, made possible by two g...will be permanently associated with this ambitious nonprofit genetic testing initiative -- as well as with our research into the causes and our pursuit of the cu...Gold nanoparticles, radiation combo may slow Alzheimer's
...iety the world's largest scientific society is a nonprofit organization chartered by the U.S. Congress and a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences. Its main offices are in Washington, D.C., and Columbu...Free care by Florida emergency physicians climbs faster as uninsured patient visits increase
...hile hospital ownership public nonprofit, private nonprofit or for-profit leads to very different levels of uncompensated care for hospitals, it did not determine the levels of uncompensated emergency physician care. Emergency physician groups providing the highest levels of free care tended to practice in u...