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Anchor lead: How can studying the experience of patients in the hospital help improve things? Elizabeth Tracey reports If you’ve been a patient in a hospital lately, you’ve likely been given a questionnaire to evaluate your experience. Fill it out. …
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Anchor lead: Are food challenges safe? Elizabeth Tracey reports Food challenges done in allergist's offices are generally quite safe, a recent study of about 6000 such tests concluded. Corrine Keet, an allergist at Johns Hopkins, describes the results. Keet: Food …
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Anchor lead: With all the peanut allergy around, what should parents do? Elizabeth Tracey reports Peanut allergy is a frightening thing, with seemingly frequent reports of sudden death among children following peanut ingestion, and new products coming an the market …
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Anchor lead: Exactly what are so-called "indirect" costs of medical and scientific research? Elizabeth Tracey reports Biomedical research is expensive, but must be supported. That's the clear take home from Congress's recent action to preserve both so called 'direct' and …
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Anchor lead: How much does it really cost to bring a new drug to market? Elizabeth Tracey reports Soaring drug costs have everyone concerned, but pharmaceutical companies have for years justified them with citation of research and development, or R …
