Most everyone agrees that the U.S. healthcare system is tremendously wasteful, but few people appreciate just how much of that inefficiency is baked into the business models of health plans and hospitals alike. No matter how conscientious the management of any individual company, efforts to cut costs and improve service...
That depression is a huge, if often unacknowledged, problem in the legal field has been known for quite some time. A landmark and often cited 1990 medical survey by John Hopkins University that studied major depression disorders in 104 occupations found lawyers topped the list and...
HOPKINS, Minn., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- ARAnet, Inc., a leading provider of copyright-free feature articles to newspapers across the country, has reached an agreement with TownNews.com to distribute its content through the TownNews.com network of interactive newspaper Web sites, announced Scott Severson, president of the Hopkins, Minn.-based ARAnet. ...
PlatformQ, in collaboration with its CME partnerJohns Hopkins, is pleased to announce CardioCareLive , thefirst-of-its-kind, all-virtual event for healthcare professionals dedicatedto the management of patients with multiple cardiometabolic risk factors.Thetwo-day, online-only conference will be held LIVE over the Web: September16-17, 2008. CardioCareLive will feature a dedicated CME track "ImprovingCardiometabolic...
CHICAGO -- Fitch Ratings assigns an 'A' underlying long-term rating to the City of Cleveland, Ohio's airport system revenue bonds, series 2008A-H, scheduled for negotiated sale the week of July 14. Fitch also affirms its 'A' rating on the airport's approximately $909 million of outstanding parity debt. The Rating Outlook...
TSX.V Symbol: PTR VANCOUVER, July 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Petromin Resources Ltd. (TSX.V Symbol: PTR) is pleased to announce that William D. Bill Gunter, PhD will join the company's International Advisory Board to provide advice to the Board of Directors relating to science and technology of carbon dioxide...
CAStor Storage Cluster Supports Active and Archive Data for Genetic Research AUSTIN, Texas -- Caringo Inc., a leading provider of content storage software that delivers clustered storage infrastructure for storing both active and archive content, today announced that its CAStor[TM] software was selected by the Center of Inherited...
Kawasaki have confirmed that John Hopkins will not be fit enough to compete in the next two MotoGP rounds, but have added that Marco Melandri will not be replacing him. Hopkins is to go under the knife for the leg injuries he sustained in his high-speed crash at...
A jury deliberated five hours late Tuesday before returning guilty verdicts on both counts in the murder trial of Parley Jeffs Dutson. Made up of six women and two men, the jury returned at 9:15 p.m., with one female juror who walked in sobbing audibly and wiping...
WASHINGTON AFP — The feelings of well-being and life satisfaction brought on by the hallucinogen psilocybin, found in "magic" mushrooms, can last for months, a new study published Monday revealed. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland found that the majority of 36 volunteers who took psilocybin in...
WASHINGTON AFP — The feelings of well-being and life satisfaction brought on by the hallucinogen psilocybin, found in "magic" mushrooms, can last for months, according to a new study. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Maryland found that the majority of 36 volunteers who took psilocybin in controlled...
The spiritual effects of a substance in "sacred mushrooms" can last more than a year, Johns Hopkins researchers claim. The scientists said their investigations may lead to new ways to help people with conditions such as cancer, depression and drug dependence. In a previous study, the researchers gave psilocybin to...
NEW YORK -- Fitch assigns an 'AA+' rating to approximately $132,640,000 of fixed-rate revenue bonds and an 'AA+/F1+' to approximately $125,855,000 of variable rate revenue bonds issued by Maryland Health and Higher Education Facilities Authority on behalf of Johns Hopkins University JHU. The series 2008A bonds are expected to price...
What's for lunch today? If you're like us, you have a handful of standbys on rotation. But instead of ordering the usual turkey club or beef burrito, do your figure a favor and add a veggie option to your repertoire. "Vegetables are low in fat and calories," says Lawrence J....
Here's a high school health lesson worth repeating: Oral sex carries serious consequences. "Men and women can contract the sexually transmitted infection human papillomavirus HPV orally," says Maura Gillison, M.D., Ph.D., an associate professor of oncology at Johns Hopkins University. "The same types that lead to...
Norman Regional Health System hired the following: Diana Scherber, director of clinic operations; Jeff Mincher, director of revenue cycle; Ken Hopkins, vice president of finance; Meegan Carter, vice president of system access and manager care...
Chris Hopkins, the Dunedin-based chief executive and managing director of automation and engineering company Scott Technology, applies two distinct mindsets when fulfilling his dual responsibilities as leader of the company's management team and member of its board of directors. As a manager, his key mantras include: not...
Advancing the Study of Decentralization and Federalism in Latin America Bardhan, Pranab, and Dilip Mookherjee, eds. Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 363 pp.; paperback $35. Díaz-Cayeros, Alberto. Federalism, Fiscal Authority, and Centralization in Latin America....
Ethics Consultation: From Theory to Practice Mark P. Alusio, Robert M. Arnold, Stuart J. Youngner, eds. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003. ISBN 978-0801871658; 241 PAGES, CLOTH $45 It has been said that the practice of medicine is a moral enterprise. Yet, for those who do ethics...
Genetic Ties and the Family: the Impact of Paternity Testing on Parents and Children Mark A. Rothstein, Thomas H. Murray, Gregory E. Kaebnick, and Mary Anderlik Majumber, Editors. Baltimore, MD: John Hopkins University Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0801881930; 264 PAGES, CLOTH $ 50.00 We've entered a new era in the...
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