Government spin on success of NHS cataract privatisation criticised
...nt's mobile cataract IS-TC scheme, will have to be paid for over 44 000 cataract operations in contracts arranged over 5 years, irrespective of whether they are needed or even carried out....Common anti-seizure drug could be effective for lupus patients
...e size in the control group. The study, which was paid for by a $250,000 grant from the Alliance for Lupus Research, was just one of several that Mishra presented at the national meeting, In a second study, he showed that mithramycin, an antibiotic usually used against tumors, also reduces kidney diseas...Rate of paid-for sex with women has doubled in 10 years
...itudes to sex. And men were asked if they had ever paid for sex. In 1990, 5.6% of the men said they had paid for sex at some time during their lives, with 2% saying they had done this within the previous five ...Medicare fraud settlement causes oncologists to lose income
...eneca cases alleged that the spread between prices paid by physicians for cancer drugs and the amount reimbursed by Medicare and Medicaid ranged from 12 percent to 77 percent of the acquisition prices and was an important factor used in the marketing of the prostate cancer drugs. TAP and AstraZeneca empl...Medicare payment stabilization options suggested by ACP
...rovide a bonus pool of dollars to physicians to be paid on a weighted basis based on performance; create positive incentives for quality improvement (no negative updates); allow physicians to share in system-wide savings; and direct Medicare to implement new payment models to create incentives for p...New study shows successful aging a question of 'mind over matter'
... themselves higher scores. Participants who had a paid job outside of the home were also more likely to give themselves higher scores. Interestingly, volunteer activities were not found to exert the same influence on participants' self-reports. Factors that were not correlated with high self-report rat...Hidden cost of teen pain in the UK almost 4 billion per year
...nts were on special diets or food supplements, all paid for by their families. The research highlights an embarrassing lack of services for adolescents with chronic pain, says Professor Eccleston. "Although adolescent pain is a major problem with long term consequences, there is a paucity in services to h...Toward the future of cancer prevention
...ulation in the Houston metropolitan area, research paid for by philanthropy and tobacco industry settlement funds. Over many years, the study aims to enroll more than 100,000 Mexican-Americans in Texas, and to date more than 10,000 have joined. The study will follow the residents and collect biological sa...Failure to resolve budget reconciliation leaves patients and doctors uncertain
... packages." The SGR formula unfairly ties the fees paid for physician services to the performance of the overall economy. Because costs of taking care of an aging population, many of whom have multiple chronic diseases, continue to increase at a faster rate than overall growth in the economy, calculating...Blacks' lower rate of lung cancer surgery not just due to access to care issues
...uld be found, but there needs to be more attention paid to the doctor-patient interaction." The generally poorer health of blacks and other racial minorities is often blamed on social and financial obstacles to obtaining medical care. The new study, however, documents that the lower rate of surgery for bl...15 percent of US employees work under influence of alcohol
...ty may not be understood until closer attention is paid to the context in which drinking occurs. "The context of alcohol use -- off the job vs. on the job -- is important to an understanding of the productivity implications (job attendance vs. job performance and safety) of that use," he explained....Follow-up study shows drug slows severe Alzheimer's symptoms for one year
...ients continued to receive the drug. The study was paid for by the German company Merz Pharmaceutical GmbH, which markets the medicine in Germany and elsewhere. Forest Pharmaceuticals Inc sells Namenda in the United States. All patients were evaluated with a wide range of tests to assess cognitive and fu...Morning grogginess more debilitating than sleep deprivation, according to CU-Boulder study
...rcome the effects of sleep inertia," he said. The paid study volunteers, nine of whom were included in the sleep inertia study, slept eight hours per night during the month leading up to the study, had no medical, psychiatric or sleep disorders and were free of medication including alcohol, nicotine, rec...St. Jude projects 90 percent cure rate for ALL
...tion and research by an experienced team that have paid off substantially," said Ching-Hon Pui, M.D., director of the Leukemia/Lymphoma Division at St. Jude and American Cancer Society F.M. Kirby Clinical Research Professor. "A 90 percent cure rate for ALL is quite possible in the near future if we contin...Thiamin deficiency common in hospitalized heart failure patients
...it is surprising that so little attention has been paid to nutrition in heart failure. "Patients with advanced heart failure commonly suffer from cardiac cachexia, but little is known about the mechanisms underlying this problem or how to treat it. Deficiency in one dietary component, such as thiamin, is...Women's silent health problem: Study finds fecal incontinence is prevalent in US women
...ics and Gynecology. "Increased attention should be paid to this debilitating condition, especially considering the aging of our population and the available treatments for FI," says senior author Dee E. Fenner, M.D., associate professor of obstetrics and gynecology, and director of gynecology, at the Univ...First impressions of beauty may demonstrate why the pretty prosper
...g attractive," Olson said. "Attractive people are paid more, are judged more intelligent and will receive more attention in most facets of life. "This favoritism, while poorly understood, seems to be innate and cross-cultural.Studies suggest that even infants prefer pretty faces," Olson said. In their re...Researchers isolate causes of cognitive loss following coronary artery bypass surgery
...g machine. Much of the research over the years was paid for with a major grant from the National Institutes of Health. In the new study of 237 patients, the team compared the standard method of coronary artery bypass using the heart-lung machine with surgical techniques that minimized movement of the aort...Pay cuts lead to worker insomnia, but supervisor training helps
... new pay system at the hospitals. Instead of being paid hourly and receiving overtime pay, nurses were being converted to salaried employees, working the same number of hours. The result was that the nurses' pay would be reduced by about 10 percent. The company decided to implement the pay cut in phases,...Tufts University receives federal grant to address occupational risks among immigrants
... limited access to health care, work at the lowest paid jobs under the worst conditions, and are exposed to a disproportionate share of environmental hazards in their schools and homes." Society's stake in addressing issues Society has a strong stake in addressing these problems, according to Alex Piri...