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- Comparative Effectiveness: Putting Medicine Under a Microscope
- Most people don't know it, but hard evidence as to which medical treatments actually work best is in awfully short supply here in the U.S. The growing scandal over the expensive cholesterol drug Vytorin, which appears to be no more effective than older, cheaper statin drugs, is just the latest...
- Blog posts 2008-04-01
- A Crash Course in Feminine Careerism
- Mastered the art of multitasking? Check. Read the rules of office politics? Check. Figured out how to tame your boss? Check. Conquered your biological clock? Huh… ? Yes, ladies, in your quest to climb the corporate ladder, this is one skill you’d better acquire...
- Blog posts 2008-03-05
- Terri Schiavo, Son Hudson, and 'Nonbeneficial' Medical Treatments
- Two disputed cases about withholding life support Terri Schiavo and Son Hudson call for greater public discussion. Confusion arises from intermixing three kinds of cases: those in which demanded treatment is physiologically futile, involving competition for scarce resources, and in which the treatment would likely achieve the patient's goals although...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- The Costs of Nonbeneficial Treatment in the Intensive Care Setting
- Ethics consultations have been shown to reduce the use of "nonbeneficial treatments," defined as life-sustaining treatments delivered to patients who ultimately did not survive to hospital discharge, when treatment conflicts occurred in the adult intensive care unit. The paper estimates the costs of nonbeneficial treatment using the results from a...
- White papers 2005-08-01
- Global Health: U.S. AIDS Coordinator Addressing Some Key Challenges to Expanding Treatment But Others Remain
- The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief PEPFAR, announced January 2003, aims to provide 2 million people with anti-retroviral ARV treatment in 14 of the world's most severely affected countries. In May 2003 legislation established the position of the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator in the State Department. This paper basically...
- White papers 2004-07-01
- Peripheral Vascular Program Development in the Cath Lab
- The introduction of balloon angioplasty in the 1970s revolutionized the treatment of coronary and peripheral vascular disease PVD. Since this major breakthrough, the diagnosis and treatment of PVD has generally been performed in the Vascular Radiology suite and coronary angioplasty in the Cardiac Catheterization Lab. The influx of cardiologists into...
- White papers 2005-02-11
- Health Care Bill Savings: $81B
- Congressional number crunchers say one current health care bill would save the government $81 billion over 10 years. Nancy Cordes looks at the numbers.
- Videos 2009-10-09
- A Cross Roads in Care Delivery: Angioplasty With Off-Site Surgical Support
- In order to provide more comprehensive cardiovascular services and increase access to state-of-the-art treatment, community hospitals without open heart surgery are implementing angioplasty programs. This has become an increasingly popular practice due to the substantial clinical benefits, but a controversial one as well. In light of such trends, angioplasty with...
- White papers 2004-08-10
- New HSR Rules Regarding the Treatment of Unincorporated Entities
- On March 8, 2005, the Federal Trade Commission (the "FTC") published in the Federal Register certain changes to the rules implementing the Hart-Scott-Rodino Act (the "Act"). The revised rules come into effect on April 7, 2005. The most significant changes under the revised rules relate to the treatment of the...
- White papers 2005-04-06
- The Practical Guide: Identification, Evaluation, and Treatment of Overweight and Obesity in Adults
- Treatment of an overweight or obese person incorporates a two-step process: assessment and management. Assessment includes determination of the degree of obesity and overall health status. Management involves not only weight loss and maintenance of body weight but also measures to control other risk factors. Obesity is a chronic disease;...
- White papers 2000-10-01
- Electrodialysis Reversal (EDR) and Ion Exchange as Polishing Treatment for Perchlorate Treatment
- Due to the development of a new analytical method that lowered the perchlorate detection limit to 4µg/L, perchlorate has been detected in many drinking water sources. Perchlorate contamination is now recognized as a widespread concern affecting many water utilities. Furthermore, perchlorate is a very stable substance in aquatic systems and...
- White papers 2000-10-01
- Influence of Intense Multidisciplinary Follow-Up and Orlistat on Weight Reduction in a Primary Care Setting
- Obesity is the most common health problem in developed countries. Recently, several physicians' organizations have issued recommendations for treating obesity to family physicians, including instructions in nutrition, physical activity and medications. The aim of this study was to examine if effective weight-reducing treatment can be given by a family physician....
- White papers 2005-01-29
- Low Levels of Insurance Reimbursement Impede Access to Cochlear Implants
- Cochlear implants enable many severely to profoundly hearing-impaired people who cannot be helped by hearing aids to understand speech and environmental sounds and to communicate better. The treatment, including the cost of a cochlear implant device and required professional services, can cost more than $40,000. But studies by other organizations...
- White papers 2002-10-01
- Comorbidity Issues in the Pharmacological Treatment of Pathological Gambling: A Critical Review
- Pathological Gambling PG is an impulse control disorder often comorbid with other psychopathology, particularly bipolar spectrum disorders, attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder, Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder OCD and substance abuse. This paper reviews the published literature on the pharmacological management of PG, highlighting how clinical and subclinical comorbid psychopathology influences the choice of pharmacological...
- White papers 2005-10-10
- Reporting Clinical Trial Results to Inform Providers, Payers, and Consumers
- Results of randomized clinical trials are the preferred "Evidence" for establishing the benefits and safety of medical treatments. This paper presents evidence suggesting that the conventional approach to reporting clinical trials has fundamental flaws that can result in overlooking identifiable subgroups harmed by a treatment while underestimating benefits to others....
- White papers 2005-12-01
- Anticoagulant Treatment at a Specialized Outpatient Anticoagulant Therapy Unit, a Descriptive Study
- The indications for continuous oral anticoagulant treatment, the target interval and the procedures for withdrawing treatment have changed in the last 10 years. Patients on continuous oral anticoagulant treatment at the Outpatient Anticoagulant Clinic at Umea University Hospital in 2002 were included in a descriptive study (n=900). In patients on...
- White papers 2005-12-08
- The Pros and Cons of the Public Option
- What is the public health care option and how would it work? CBS News' Kelly Cobiella, Mark Strassmann, and Anthony Mason provide a special report.
- Videos 2009-09-11
- Obama Lobbies for Health Care
- Amidst a series of criticisms concerning his approach to health care reform, President Obama will speak to Congress next week to detail his reform agenda. Nancy Cordes reports.
- Videos 2009-09-03
- Obama's Take on Health Care
- President Barack Obama talks with CBS News about one key change in his position on health care reform -- and about how to help doctors make better decisions.
- Videos 2009-07-16
- Health Insurers Canceling Policies Without Warning
- Some patients with serious illnesses have discovered their insurance companies are dropping them and charging them for treatment after the fact. Sandra Hughes reports on this alarming trend.
- Videos 2009-05-10
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