Are some medicines so good they should be free? In diabetes, the answer may be yes
...clause in the law that establishes it. If Medicare paid for the cost of the drug for all adults over age 65 who have diabetes, added to the existing cost of all their healthcare until death, the total savings would be $1,606 over a lifetime for each Medicare recipient. The patients would also live longer ...Employed caregivers at risk from current Canadian policies
...t 1.5 million Canadians over the age of 45 were in paid employment and caring for an older adult. In 2002,...up, whose need to balance the competing demands of paid employment, unpaid care giving and other life roles, often results in scheduling conflicts, time pre...Coalition's refusal to record Iraq's civilian deaths failing to respect international law
...e price--in numbers of lost human lives--they have paid for a conflict undertaken in their names."...Tsunami raises questions about disaster mental health, Science reports
...nami happened, there was a great deal of attention paid in the media to what the psychological impact would be, and I knew this was something I wanted to investigate. In general, how would you describe your findings? How much of a lingering psychological impact has the tsunami had, and how is that making...Book 'Asbestos and Fire' explores risk trade-offs
.... It wasn't until the 1960s, however, that experts paid increasing attention to the health dangers of the fire-resistant material, which include respiratory disease and cancer. "Asbestos has become a highly visible and controversial legal, scientific and public health issue, with hundreds of thousands o...Many resident physicians feel unprepared to care for culturally diverse patients
...ies for many years. Increasing attention has been paid recently to how sociocultural differences between patients and providers can complicate health care leading to poor communication, patient dissatisfaction and reduced quality of care. In the past ten years both the American Medical Association and ...Proteome Systems raises $10m through a private placement to institutional and professional investors
...illion through the issue of up to 33,333,333 fully paid ordinary shares to institutional and professional investors in the UK, US and Australia at a price of $0.30c per share. The placement is conditional upon shareholder approval, which the Company will seek at an extraordinary general meeting to be co...Rensselaer researchers awarded NSF grant to study nano springs, rods, beams
...t the molecular level, but less attention has been paid to nanoscale mechanical systems, according to Toh-Ming Lu, the R.P. Baker Distinguished Professor of Physics at Rensselaer and principal investigator for the project. "Nanomechanical devices may have as important an impact as nanoelectronics, but a n...New blood transplant method stops fatal side effect, Stanford study finds
...ered at Stanford University School of Medicine has paid off for Holmes and other lymphoma and leukemia pat.... "And it didn't look like there was a price to be paid for this major reduction," he added, explaining that the patients did not have any higher rate of in...Reforming the NHS: Have we gone too far or not far enough?
...rt Lane and Alex Paton argue that huge amounts are paid to large private firms for advice about the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) and independent sector treatment centres (ISTCs). Profits are then swollen by the scandalous practice of refinancing buildings, while cash-strapped hospitals must pay the mo...Stroke patients with mild symptoms may still need clot-dissolving drug
..." he adds. "We can suggest that more attention be paid to patients' ability to walk something that often is not evaluated since gait disturbance was a reason why several could not go home. But we really need to find ways to predict who will do poorly without tPA, and for that we'll need larger trials i...Practice makes perfect when implanting cardioverter-defibrillator devices
...ts. Because this analysis included only procedures paid for by Medicare, the actual total volume of procedures done by the physicians may have been higher than the figures reported in the study. Dr. Al-Khatib noted that although they looked at only Medicare patients, she didn't see any reason to believe t...Physician pay-for-performance programs may produce little gain in quality
...r of its quality incentive program (QIP), the plan paid $3.4 million of a potential bonus pool of $12.9 million. Three quarters of the 172 physician groups eligible at some point during the year for the program received some funds from the bonus pool. We also observed that few groups reached a majority of...UQ study gives young Australians with disabilities a healthy start
...ound that 61percent of people with ID, parents and paid carers who used the diary reported being better advocates. The diary is also used in the classroom with picture pages for communicating symptoms and others for recording health problems. Studies show there are many unrecognised health problems in a...Side-effects cause some breast cancer patients to skip hormone treatment
...g." She said that much more attention needed to be paid to these particular side-effects, which are seriously under-estimated and can make life utterly miserable. Doctors or nurses did offer advice such as wearing layers of clothing, avoiding spicy foods, hot drinks etc., but most women will have already ...Avoiding the 'Desperate Housewive's' syndrome
... shows that despite women's greater involvement in paid work, they're still doing 70 per cent of the housework. On top of that, many women still maintain the primary child-rearing role," says Professor Ussher. "Many women feel it's their responsibility - their job - to manage a household, take care of th...Should drugs for rare diseases be given special status in the NHS?
...all numbers of patients. Historically, the NHS has paid for them because treatments for these diseases were so rare that the effect on health services was negligible. But, as more and more orphan drugs come on to the market, the impact on other health services is becoming substantial. In the first article...CHEST 2005 abstract highlights
...view of Blue Shield Puerto Rico records for claims paid in 2004, researchers from the Asthma Management Center, Puerto Rico, looked at 358 patients who were referred to an asthma management center and compared them to a control group of 12,070 asthmatics treated elsewhere. Patients were given daily nasal ...Poorest countries well behind global health goals agreed years ago
... funded but important programmes to support better paid global initiatives. International migration of health workers exacerbates matters, say the authors. Nine of the 20 countries with the highest emigration rates are in sub-Saharan Africa - where the Millennium Development Goals are least likely to be ...Government plans for NHS more aggressive than Tories ever were
...o short of doctors and facilities. The NHS already paid for extra capacity from private healthcare on an a...at ISTCs are not good value for money, as they are paid at the national tariff per case but mainly perform simpler - and below average cost - procedures. T...