Topic: David Nash

Medical Treatment Is No Science

IdeaFeed Home Tags Subscribe (RSS) Sanjaya Kumar, chief medical officer at Quantros, and David B. Nash, dean of the Jefferson School of Population...
Posted on 03/03/11 at 4:23pm by Benzinga Staff . Endo Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ENDP ) announced today the appointment of David B. Nash, M.D...

Safety on the syllabus

Robert O. Bonow, MD, graduated from medical school in 1973. What has remained largely unchanged is the lack of education most medical school graduates receive in the science and skills of quality improvement and patient safety -- how to deliver the right care ...

Patient safety improving slightly, 10 years after IOM report on errors

November marked a decade since the release of a seminal Institute of Medicine report that cited research estimating as many as 98,000 Americans die annually from preventable medical errors.. The last 10 years have seen "unmistakable progress, even though hard evidence ...

Dune Defense

Each year ravaging storms erode beaches and flood homes, but some of that damage can be avoided with one simple and natural defense: "When you lose your dune structure, you leave everything open for destruction," David says. David recommends sea oats, American ...

Pair guilty of attempted Japanese bank theft

Two men were found guilty Wednesday of involvement in a bid to steal hundreds of millions of pounds from a Japanese bank in what would have been the biggest theft of its kind.Hugh Rodley and David Nash were linked to a ...

Ranolazine Safe and Effective to Treat Angina

Ranolazine, a new and unique anti-anginal drug, is safe and effective when used to treat patients with chronic stable angina, according to an article published in the Oct. 11 issue of The Lancet.. David T. Nash, M.D., and Stephen D. Nash ...

Aetna tries paying patients to take their meds

Aetna, through its nonprofit foundation, is funding research to find out whether a daily lottery with cash prizes will help improve patients' medication adherence.. Kevin G. Volpp, MD, PhD, director of the Center on Health Incentives at the Leonard Davis Institute for ...

Parasitic butterflies fool ants with smell

But what is more, the ant seems to "recognise" that it is being duped and one population appears to be engaging in an evolutionary arms race with the butterfly, says the team led by David Nash at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark ...

More states eye reporting infection rates to give scrutiny to hospitals

The movement to require hospitals and other health care organizations to report publicly how well they prevent nosocomial infections is spreading fast. Peter J. Pronovost, MD, PhD, said transparency is valuable but that the current means of measuring many types of nosocomial ...