The new health law will infuse $3 billion into health research that compares treatments to gauge which are most effective, building on an earlier federal investment of $1.1 billion from the stimulus package, Bloomberg BusinessWeek reports. In response to the recent wave of interest in so-called “comparative effectiveness research,” Harvard Medical School has hired five [...]
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Comparative Effectiveness Funds Spur Changes, But Not Without Critics
Posted by admin on Nisan 16th, 2010
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No Comments »Health Reform Law Likely To Improve Access To Affordable Coverage But Impact On Primary Care Access And Health Costs Is ‘Uncertain’
Posted by admin on Nisan 9th, 2010
“Rather than asking whether the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) does everything to improve access and lower costs, we should ask how it compares with the status quo,” the American College of Physicians’ (ACP) senior public policy adviser said in a paper published online today in Annals of Internal [...]
Media Report On Haiti Rebuilding Effort After Donor Conference
Posted by admin on Nisan 6th, 2010
News outlets report on the implications and follow up after Wednesday’s donor conference to aid Haiti’s rebuilding effort.
Newsweek: “The next big challenge is figuring out how to apply the raised funds to fix not just Haiti’s earthquake damage, but also the years of poverty and corruption that have plagued the nation [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 6th, 2010
The European Commission (EC) recently announced that it has adopted two new policy frameworks “to help developing countries address food security in emergency and long-term situations” and has called upon member nations to implement similar policies, IRIN reports.
The humanitarian assistance framework focuses on “response tools to enhance food security, and also [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 6th, 2010
Health Care Law Is Good The Las Vegas Sun
States can’t on the one hand accept the benefits of federal health care spending and then legitimately claim that the federal government is playing too large a role in the health care sector (4/2).
On The Front Line The New York Times
If Dr. Berwick [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 6th, 2010
On Wednesday, the Tennessee Senate voted 29-2 and the state House voted 87-8 in favor of bills (SB 3812, HB 3301) that would require abortion clinics to post signs alerting women of a Tennessee law that prohibits coercing a woman into having an abortion, the AP/Memphis Commercial Appeal reports.
The legislation would [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 6th, 2010
This study shows that reducing/abolishing prescription co-payment in Wales had little effect on dispensing rates for prescription drugs.
A research team from three Welsh universities (Glamorgan, Cardiff and Bangor) compared General Practice level dispensing rates in Wales with those in another part of the UK where co-payment charges were retained between 2002 [...]
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Posted by admin on Nisan 6th, 2010
In a recent study initiated by Beiersdorf AG (1), Florian Spörl and colleagues evaluated the use of Roche Applied Science’s (Pink Sheets: RHHBY) (SWX:RO) (SWX:ROG) xCELLigence System as a viable system to monitor not only cholesterol extraction and repletion but also cholesterol reorganization in human keratinocytes in real time. The [...]
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