Drugmakers focus on winning approval for increasingly expensive new formulations, often of dubious medical value.
Ten years after the completion of the human genome project, competition between instrument makers and attempts to capture medical value from DNA sequence data continue to make the news.
While there may be medical value in some of the individual components of the cannabis plant, the fact remains that smoking marijuana is an inefficient and harmful method for delivering the constituent elements that have or may have medicinal value.
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Figure out the difference between medical facts and value judgments.
In choosing the unfunded Present Value of Pension and Medical obligations, I wanted to avoid some doomsday scenarios that value the obligations into perpetuity.
Thus, the importance of electronic medical records and the value of the Accountable Care Organization that brings physicians together in the management of patient care.
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The goal is to get better data on which medical procedures and devices provide value for the money.
Unfortunately, they have not been repeated which outlines one of the greatest difficulties in the effort to assess marijuana's value as a medical drug: doing trials to find out the truth.
Medical and law schools teach the value of pro bono work, business schools rarely do.
Our Web-based documents also display quality ratings for medical providers to help our employees make value-based purchasing decisions.
Officials at Columbia's medical school, however, seemed to value his "competence in two cultures, " science and literature, he says.
For haptics to get cheaper, there must be recognisable added value and the field of medical simulation is an obvious start, she said.
Comparisons with other rich countries and within the United States show that America's health-care system is not only growing at an unsustainable pace, but also provides questionable value for money and dubious medical care.
This means that the United States is producing goods with higher value, such as airplanes and medical equipment.
They include deep trust, autonomy and self-regulation, participation in public policy, funding for what we value in both patient care and medical research in addition to many personal rewards.
Collin rightly identifies the accelerating volume of medical literature, and the rapid pace of change in medical best practices, as opportunities to derive value from large volumes of textual data.
Rice's Healthcare Blue Book basically offers blue book prices for medical procedures -- like the " Kelly Blue Book" value for a car that you go into the dealership with to negotiate.
Thus, it was both surprising and disturbing to read a recent piece in the Journal of the American Medical Association by Moore and Furberg which essentially calls into question the value of this program.
Officials had looked at research evidence which "raised questions about the real value of universal 'health checks' based solely on a medical model and helped us design an approach which allows Wales to test something new".
"Part of what I do with the (Gates) Foundation comes from that incredible social justice I had growing up and belief that all lives, all lives are of equal value, " said Gates during a recent interview with CNN chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.
The caps did achieve their direct aim: medical-malpractice claims fell sharply in number, and awards dropped just as sharply in value.
They value their family above all else, but have not factored the long term medical care of their relatives into their financial plans.
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From the Forbes BRIC Value buy list in China, top buy recommendations as made by ValuEngine are Mindray Medical (MR), Baidu (BIDU) and China Mobile (CHL).
Whether it is through an accountable care organization (ACO) or bundled payment to a patient-centered medical home, insurance companies and government health programs like Medicare are moving toward so-called value-based payment systems and away from fee-for-service medicine.
CheckLight's second value proposition lies is its ability to provide simple, actionable information to both athletes and medical personnel.
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However, climate modelers operate under very different incentives and value systems than those of the legions of cancer researchers who have spent 40 years fighting the most expensive medical battle in American history, thus far coming up short.
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