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Queen’s study aims to improve end of life decision making among elderly

February 7, 2012
At a time when there is tremendous concern about the utilization of technology at the end of life and the costs of technology, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has funded a multi-center study aimed to improve end of life decision making amongst seriously ill, elderly hospitalized patients. Queen's ...

CIHR invests in Queen’s-led study on end-of-life decision making

February 6, 2012
At a time when there is tremendous concern about the utilization of technology at the end of life and the costs of technology, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) has funded a multi-center study aimed to improve end of life decision making amongst seriously ill, elderly hospitalized patients. Queen's ...

CIHR invests in Queen’s-led study on end-of-life decision making

February 6, 2012
(Queen's University) At a time when there is tremendous concern about the utilization of technology at the end of life and the costs of technology, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research has funded a multi-center study aimed to improve end of life decision making amongst seriously ill, elderly hospitalized patients.

Susan G. Komen reverses decision on Planned Parenthood funding

February 4, 2012
Today the national headquarters of Susan G. Komen reversed its decision regarding funding to Planned Parenthood. The organization apologized to the American public for decisions that cast doubt upon their commitment to their mission of saving lives.

National Science Advisory Board explains decision to censor bird flu research

February 2, 2012
"Details of a genetically altered strain of the deadly avian flu virus are 'a grave concern' to public safety and should be kept under wraps," the 23-member National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity declared Tuesday "in a letter released by the journals Science and Nature," CNN reports.

CPOE System With Clinical Decision Support For Radiology Successfully Implemented By Large Hospital

February 2, 2012
In an effort to reduce the inappropriate use of medical imaging and improve quality of care, a large, tertiary-care hospital has successfully implemented a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with clinical decision support for radiology, according to a study in the February issue of the Journal of the American ...

Large hospital successfully implements CPOE system with clinical decision support for radiology

February 1, 2012
In an effort to reduce the inappropriate use of medical imaging and improve quality of care, a large, tertiary-care hospital has successfully implemented a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with clinical decision support for radiology, according to a study in the February issue of the Journal of the ...

Large hospital successfully implements CPOE system with clinical decision support for radiology

February 1, 2012
In an effort to reduce the inappropriate use of medical imaging and improve quality of care, a large, tertiary-care hospital has successfully implemented a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with clinical decision support for radiology, according to a study in the February issue of the Journal of the American ...

Large hospital successfully implements CPOE system with clinical decision support for radiology

February 1, 2012
(American College of Radiology) In an effort to reduce the inappropriate use of medical imaging and improve quality of care, a large, tertiary-care hospital has successfully implemented a computerized physician order entry (CPOE) system with clinical decision support for radiology, according to a study in the February issue of the ...

Bionovo announces voluntary decision to delist from NASDAQ

January 30, 2012
Bionovo, Inc., today announced that on January 26, 2012, its Board of Directors decided to seek a voluntary delisting from the NASDAQ Capital Market.

Decision Of Researchers To Temporarily Halt Research On H5N1 Applauded By Georgetown Professor

January 25, 2012
A Georgetown University Medical Center professor says the voluntary action taken by two research teams to temporarily halt work involving the highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 is "laudable." In the researchers' statement, published by Science and Nature, the authors stated that they "recognize that we and the rest of the ...

How The Brain Decides Whether To ‘Sell Out’ – Decision-Making Over ‘Sacred Values’ Prompts A Distinct Cognitive Process

January 23, 2012
An Emory University neuro-imaging study shows that personal values that people refuse to disavow, even when offered cash to do so, are processed differently in the brain than those values that are willingly sold. "Our experiment found that the realm of the sacred - whether it's a strong religious belief, ...