Posted By Sofia Schonell on June 30, 2011
To better prepare hospitals and doctors for the scrutiny they will get from public reporting in the next few years, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation on Tuesday launched a website that compiles state, federal, hospital and health plan quality data from across the country: 224 separate sites and growing. The foundation says the database is the “nation’s most comprehensive online directory for patients (and others) to find reliable information on the quality of healthcare provided by physicians and hospitals in their communities.” “All of this information is designed to help everyone get ready for a time when we’re much more focused on tilting the system for delivering high value, rather than high volume, care, which is what we’re paying for right now.
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Posted By Stephanie Tripp on June 30, 2011
Currently, the FDA as well as other worldwide health organisations requires that all manufacturers protect patients and consumers by guaranteeing product safety and efficacy through animal testing and other methods.
Up to 95 percent reduction
Allergan has claimed that the use of the new assay will reduce the use of animal testing by up to an estimated 95 percent, over the course of the next three years, as it hopes to get more regulatory agencies around the world on board to approve this assay.
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Posted By Angelina Drennan on June 30, 2011
You’d be forgiven for assuming that all those hundreds of different shampoos and conditioners promising different things were secretly the exact same stuff, just in different color bottles. To some extent, you’d be right. Mos
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Posted By Angelina Drennan on June 29, 2011
Everyday men and women choose surgery and injections just hoping these modalities will help them look younger. Sometimes these procedures do not produce the desired effect and the face becomes contorted, misshapen and not very pretty.
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