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...along these lines is heading our way. The Administration hopes to harness our inertia with its automatic pension plan, a major step toward universal savings accounts, and by dramatically simplifying applications for federal tuition aid. Its push to computerize health-care records - another big-ticket stimulus item - could make generic drugs and cost-effective procedures our default treatments. And seniors who don't select health-care or drug plans could be automatically enrolled in low-cost options. "It would be nice if we all behaved like supercomputers, but that's not how we are," Orszag says...
...four-song stretch from “Dirt on Your Shoes” to “True and False.” “Dirt on Your Shoes” is the strongest, because it is the only song that grows and surprises, moving from a generic acoustic opening to a power-chord-filled chorus, accompanied by a lyrical tone of caustic attack rather than the complacent introspection that characterizes the rest of the album. It is the only song that possesses that vital quality that “Grr…” as a whole...
...that prescription errors cause at least 7,000 deaths each year, and electronic prescriptions can reduce those mistakes by catching misdosing and drug-drug interactions. E-prescribing can also cut costs; last year, a study from Brigham and Women's Hospital showed that prescribing software that can identify both generic drug options and medications covered by a patient's insurer, has the potential to save up to $845,000 for every 100,000 patients each year...
...said CSA co-Vice President Lisa M. Yu ’11. The incident in Lowell Grille follows another Ivy League incident in which disparaging comments were aimed at the Asian American community. Last week, a popular Dartmouth e-mail list-serve, “Generic Good Morning Message,” sent an e-mail to hundreds of students laced with racist remarks about the University’s newly appointed president, Harvard Medical School Professor Jim Yong Kim, who is South Korean. The Asian American Association’s recent marketing of the “Mr. Asian...
...paper in the journal Biological Psychiatry says the drug, which carries the generic name varenicline, has also helped a group of regular drinkers consume less alcohol. So could varenicline be a new anti-addiction panacea...