Policy/Ethics

Credit: Vanderbilt University Medical Center Modernizing health records by making them electronic has gained momentum as technology evolves and policies push health care toward digital solutions. But the same trend has not been…
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Success in all funding lines of the German Excellence Strategy competition: after the positive funding decision for two Clusters of Excellence in September 2018, the University of Konstanz has now once again been selected as one of eleven…
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PITTSBURGH, July 16, 2019 - Death rates from sepsis fell faster in New York than expected--and faster than in peer states--following the introduction of the nation's first state-mandated sepsis regulation, according to an analysis led by…
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George Mason University study found symptoms varied by occupation and were not reduced with longer stays in the United StatesCredit: George Mason University In recent years, Latinos have migrated from Central America to the United…
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Efforts to shift away from fossil fuels and replace oil and coal with renewable energy sources can help reduce carbon emissions but do so at the expense of increased inequality, according to a new Portland State University study. Julius…
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Media can register now to attend the Advanced Breast Cancer Fifth International Consensus Conference (ABC5) in Lisbon, Portugal, Thursday 14 to Saturday 16 November 2019. Registration for bona fide journalists is free. Around 1,400…
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From high levels of lead found in school drinking water to industry sites releasing toxic heavy metals into the air, over 40 years of regulations in the United States have failed to protect human and environmental health from toxic…
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Virtually every day, millions of children and adolescents are being bombarded by sexually explicit direct-to-consumer advertising, despite pharmaceutical CEOs' claims to the contrary. Leading business ethicist Denis Arnold from the…
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The essential role of Primary care professionals in achieving Health for all -- how to make 'Astana' work The Astana Declaration, adopted by the World Health Organization in October 2018, acknowledges the importance of primary health care…
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UMass Amherst researchers examined Medicare data from accountable care organizationsCredit: UMass Amherst Accountable care organizations (ACOs), the health care delivery model created by the Affordable Care Act in an effort to reduce…
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Credit: Trends in Ecology & Evolution President Xi Jinping staked out China's role as a committed player to tackle the climate crisis and build an "ecological civilization." In a review published July 10 in the journal Trends…
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Sustainable means of mobility are becoming ever more popular. In Switzerland, around 15,000 people have registered with the online platform carvelo2go, which hires out electric cargo bikes. The use of this sharing service in the Basel…
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Analysis of data on tens of thousands of drug-gene interactions suggests that decentralised collaboration will increase the robustness of scientific findings in biomedical research Research results on drug-gene interactions are much less…
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Study of real-life experiments from many disciplines shows the most effective ways restaurants and grocery stores can influence healthy eatingCredit: Pierre Chandon Fontainebleau (France), Singapore, Abu Dhabi, 9 July 2019: Behavioural…
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