To try to demonstrate this, Merck launched IMPROVE-IT, an 18, 000 patient trial comparing Vytorin to simvastatin.

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It is the latest step taken to try to improve the image of Hanoi's traffic police force, which has faced frequent complaints as it manages the city's hectic flow of vehicles.

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This "environmental determinism, " as housing historian Alexander von Hoffman calls it, led reformers to try to improve the behavior and prospects of the poor by replacing the slum environment altogether.

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Sometimes what I can do to try to improve the economy or to curb foreclosures or to help deal with the health care system -- sometimes it seems so distant and so remote, so profoundly inadequate to the enormity of the need.

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It even goes a step further and can recommend keywords to try to improve the results.

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"It could be a good model for other facilities to at least try and improve their conditions, " he said.

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It's done in all leading organisations, where you try to review and improve your work.

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The patients like them, they are a safe foodstuff and they improve the patients food and fluid intake so it really makes sense to give them a try.

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