Under existing arrangements, GPs are paid by a complicated system of fixed fees linked to targets and the number of patients on their list.
When infected by a virus, the immune system typically targets those chains of dsRNA in an attempt to prevent replication.
In an eight-year heyday in the 1990s at Immunex, the two men helped discover some of the most important new drug targets in decades, unearthing a family of immune-system genes.
The key finding for vaccine development is that the "head" and "body" portions of the VP4 protein contain many of the targets that the immune system recognises when it attacks the virus and protects against infection, they say.
The second is a cap-and-trade system of the sort Europe introduced to meet the Kyoto targets.
Under the present British system, hospitals are set targets for the length of wait regardless of the urgency of treatment.
And rightly so if the targets are those illegally ducking out of the system at present.
Regulators worry that letting one or two strong banks repay risks turning the weak into targets and takes lending capacity out of the system.
However, it is doubtful this will happen because the board will have to make cuts that reach annual targets, and can only look at specific parts of the health care system when making these decisions.
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Such immune system boosters have the potential to treat many types of cancer, but melanoma is one of the prime initial targets because it is one of the few cancers known to go into spontaneous remission on its own, indicating a possible immune response at work.
The Bush administration has asked the Czech government to host a radar system and Poland to accept a bank of interceptor rockets designed to stop missile attacks on U.S. or European targets.
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