But do we want to?
Health-care is a risky business. The workplace is full of shadowy demands for accountability and legal responsibility with inadequate revenues and resources to build strong firewalls. We are exposed to a whole group of nasty diseases and viruses, over-powering emotional energies, and impossible problems to solve. It...

HIV screening reimbursement faces roadblocks.
WASHINGTON -- Reimbursement for routine, universal HIV screening will prove challenging in both the private and public sectors, Dr. Michael Horberg and Ms. Christine Lubinski said in separate presentations at a meeting on HIV diagnosis and prevention and access to care. In September 2006, the Centers for...

Medicaid markets and pediatric patient safety in hospitals.
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine's (IOM), To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, estimated that preventable medical errors were responsible for between 44,000 and 98,000 deaths and that the total costs of preventable errors (including lost income, lost household production, disability, and health care costs) were...

Antitrust and nonprofit hospital mergers: a return to basics.
Courts reviewing proposed mergers of nonprofit hospitals have too often abandoned the bedrock principles of antitrust law, failing to pay heed to the most elemental hallmarks of socially beneficial competition. This Article suggests that courts' misapplication of antitrust law in these cases reflects a failure to understand the structural...

What is driving us, and in what direction?
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Each day we divide our activities into meaningful patterns of events, situations, projects, and even nonsensical "letting go" moments. Whether at our workbenches, desks, or in our offices, we struggle with the dynamics of conflict with interpersonal relationships, technical ineffectiveness, and exterior demands and threats...

Broader HIV screening faces payment obstacles.
WASHINGTON -- Reimbursement for routine, universal HIV screening will prove challenging in both the private and public sectors, Dr. Michael Horberg and Christine Lubinski said in separate presentations at a meeting on HIV diagnosis and prevention and access to care. Last year, the Centers for Disease Control...

Health groups to spread word on new law.
Byline: Mary Jo Hill WESTMINSTER - With a deadline set for July 1 for all state residents to have health insurance, several local health groups have received a grant to reach out to people without insurance, but they'll be facing a tough sell in some cases. ...

Measuring economic outcomes of alcohol treatment using the Economic Form 90 *.
PARTLY IN RESPONSE TO THE TREMENDOUS social costs of alcohol dependence, new pharmacotherapies have been developed (Anton and Swift, 2003) and important advances have been made in developing behavioral interventions designed to treat alcohol abuse and dependence (Hester and Miller, 2003; Miller et al., 2001; Project MATCH Research Group,...

It's not an option - you have to have health insurance; Mandatory coverage for Mass. residents by Dec. 31.
Byline: Geraldine A. Collier When Kathy's husband walked out the door, he took with him his clothes, his personal belongings and his company's health insurance coverage. "The company was self-insured," she explained. "They would continue to cover the kids, but they wouldn't cover ex-wives." ...

Guillain-Barre risk from Menactra under review.
ATLANTA -- Data available thus far suggest that the overall risk for Guillain-Barre syndrome following receipt of the meningococcal conjugate vaccine is not significantly increased, Dr. Robert L. Davis reported at the winter meeting of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices. ...