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...Hard to argue with findings like that, but Woloshin and his co-authors offer a thought experiment: Imagine every single person who contracts Disease X dies of it at age 70. If you receive your diagnosis at age 67, you'll be gone well before the 10-year threshold is reached. Now imagine a new technology that spots early signs of the disease at age 57. If everyone gets the test, the 10-year survival rate soars to 100%, but no one in fact lives a single day longer. As with Zocor, early CT scans and early detection...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Not to Get Misled by Health Statistics | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...having eight to 10 of the 32 possible EHR functionalities in at least one unit of the hospital. Even one of the most straightforward functions - computerized drug-prescribing - had been implemented in just 17%. Physicians' notes - which can be confusing at best and flat-out illegible at worst - had gone digital in just 12%. The only bright spot in the findings was computerized results-viewing, which allows doctors and nurses to call up lab results onscreen instead of having to wait for them to be delivered by hand; that time-saving upgrade had been implemented by more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronic Health Records: What's Taking So Long? | 3/25/2009 | See Source »

...drop at expected rates. Low demand may cause them to decrease much more slowly. That could push back a renewal of manufacturing activity for months. It is also possible that some factories will simply be out of business and the sources of goods for replacing dwindling inventories will have gone away. The normal supply chain in some industries may be severely disrupted in a way that will take several quarters to repair. Retooling or replacing factories is unlikely to be a quick process. (See TIME's Pictures of the Week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Housing Mirage: Misleading Numbers | 3/24/2009 | See Source »

...think we both did well,” Mills said. “For me, I learned some things that I really need to work on. I didn’t have quite the leg strength that I wanted to. Of course I would have loved to have gone faster, but it was a very solid, very good meet for me.”On Friday, Clarke took the day to rest while Mills competed in the 200-yard freestyle event. Out of a field of 64 athletes, Mills tied for 37th with Texas A&M swimmer Marissa Jasek with...

Author: By Alex Sopko, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: WEB UPDATE: Clark, Mills Make Waves at NCAAs | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

...pictures of how the Hajj has gone high-tech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Obama's Overture to Iran: Why Khamenei Won't Budge | 3/23/2009 | See Source »

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