The recruitment of overseas suppliers into the NHS - setting up new treatment centres extending choice - has also had a significant effect.
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Applicable during times of armed conflict, they form the cornerstone of international humanitarian law, setting rules for the treatment of people who are not participating in the fighting -- civilians, health workers and aid workers -- as well as for the wounded, sick or prisoners of war.
The Liverpool Care Pathway was developed at the Royal Liverpool University Hospital and the city's Marie Curie hospice to relieve suffering in dying patients, setting out principles for their treatment in their final days and hours.
"While Morningside does not provide its treatment in a hospital-like setting, it does provide the structure and security necessary to ensure Ms. Lohan's compliance with treatment goals, and, more importantly, court ordered conditions, " Beatificato said.
Patients can receive treatment at home rather than in a more expensive institutional setting, like a hospital or nursing home.
In offering its support and asserting in the brief that "prejudice may not be the basis for differential treatment under the law, " the Obama administration is setting up a high stakes political and constitutional showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court over a fast-evolving and contentious issue.
Those behind this latest research believe that the cost of setting up the programme would be offset by savings on avoiding the need for treatment.
In particular, Obama rejected rumors that a health care bill passed by a House committee included setting up so-called "death panels" to decide if senior citizens get treatment.
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"If regular weight lifting with a sleeve in a supervised setting is OK for women with lymphedema, then it is reasonable for women with breast cancer treatment who are at risk of developing lymphedema to go back to some of the things they enjoyed in the past, " she said.
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