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Auditing the Prescription Drug Consumer Price Index in a Changing Marketplace - by Richard G. Frank, Andrew L. Hicks, Ernst R. Berndt

1 hour ago | National Bureau of Economic Research

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Prescription Drug Consumer Price Index has been the focus of considerable controversy in recent years. The CPI-Rx limits its sampling frame to...
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Time to first optimal glycemic control and its predictors among type 1 diabetic children in Bahir Dar city public referral hospitals, North West Ethiopia: a retrospective follow up study

3 hours ago | BMC

Recognizing the level of glycemic control of a client is an important measure/tool to prevent acquiring complications and risk of death from diabetes. However, the other most...
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Europe sees large drop in E. coli infections in 2020

1 day ago | Food Safety

There was a big fall in the number of Shiga toxin-producing E. coli infections in Europe in 2020, according to recently published data. In 2020, 4,824 confirmed STEC infections...
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Labor expands help for patients with disability as Opposition promises hospital

1 day ago | Sydney Morning Herald

The state government will expand a program to help people with disability leave hospital sooner as the Opposition promises $600m for a new tertiary hospital.
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They Were Entitled to Free Care. Hospitals Hounded Them to Pay

1 day ago | NY Times

With the help of a consulting firm, the Providence hospital system trained staff to wring money out of patients, even those eligible for free care.
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How a Hospital Chain Used a Poor Neighborhood to Turn Huge Profits

1 day ago | NY Times

Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used the poverty of Richmond Community Hospital's patients to tap into a lucrative federal drug program.
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Movement trackers in the home could give early warning for dementia, Parkinson's or heart problems

1 day ago | Wales online

Researchers hope that the 'milestone' study can allow older people to live on their own for longer, avoid hospital and even receive early treatment for a range of conditions.
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How a Hospital Chain Used a Poor Neighborhood to Turn Huge Profits

1 day ago | NY Times

Bon Secours Mercy Health, a major nonprofit health system, used the poverty of Richmond Community Hospital's patients to tap into a lucrative federal drug program.
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Guidelines describe how non-allergists can de-label penicillin allergies

2 days ago | Healio

The British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology has released guidelines for clinicians in the U.K. who are not trained in allergy or immunology to evaluate and test...
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Completion of antibiotic therapy ‘overwhelmingly more important' than mode of therapy

2 days ago | Healio

A recent study suggests that incomplete antibiotic therapy should be avoided and that transition to oral antibiotics should be offered to people who inject drugs being treated...
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What the West should learn from the protests in Iran

Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, clearly believes that compromising on the regime's ideological pillars - including hijab - will only hasten its collapse. Read more ...

From the Archives, 1947: Carlton wins last-gasp grand final thriller

75 years ago, dominated by the will to win and possessing grit and perseverance, Carlton staged a dramatic finishing effort to snatch a one-point victory from Essendon in dying... Read more ...

Qantas appoints new Jetstar boss

Chief customer officer Stephanie Tully will take the helm at the airline's budget arm in November, replacing outgoing head Gareth Evans. Read more ...

Auditing the Prescription Drug Consumer Price Index in a Changing...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics' Prescription Drug Consumer Price Index has been the focus of considerable controversy in recent years. The CPI-Rx limits its sampling frame to... Read more ...

Bruhn bid to join Cats ‘really disappointing' but Hill a done deal to...

Greater Western Sydney have confirmed small forward Bobby Hill will join Collingwood, but there is work to be done before Richmond and Geelong secure the Giants they want. Read more ...

Queensland announces $766m wind farm project

Australia's largest publicly owned wind farm will be built in Queensland, with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk pouring $766 million into the project as she seeks to reboot the... Read more ...

Study of 9 million Swedes shows rapidly declining effectiveness of COVID...

The findings of a new Swedish study posted to the Preprints with The Lancet* server found that two COVID-19 vaccine doses provided effective long-term protection against... Read more ...

Racism investigation must include an experienced football administrator...

AFL Coaches Association chief Alastair Nicholson says the four-person panel to investigate historical allegations against Alastair Clarkson and Chris Fagan must include a... Read more ...

On creating something beautiful from a place of profound grief

In the wake of tragedy, music brought composer Nigel Westlake and singer Lior together, resulting in a breathtaking and award-winning song cycle. Read more ...

Two in custody while motorbike rider left fighting for life after crash

A 59-year-old man was allegedly struck by a stolen vehicle on Monday morning. Read more ...