Word: panels
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...panel, composed of House residents and affiliates and selected by Senior Tutor David B. Fithian, will interview candidates for the post and make recommendations to Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis...
...years. The congressional committee set out six months ago to probe allegations that two U.S. aerospace companies, Hughes Electronics Corp. and Loral Space & Communications, provided China with critical rocket-design information that helped improve its ballistic missiles. The committee concluded that they had. But as the panel dug deeper, "we were quickly led to far more serious problems," says its Republican chairman, Representative Christopher...
...They argue that in attempting to practice cost control, HMOs end up practicing medicine. Even judges have voiced frustration. Ruling in favor of an HMO in an Oklahoma case in which the insurer delayed a bone-marrow transplant for a woman, who later died of leukemia, a three-judge panel in the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote, "Although moved by the tragic circumstances of this case and the seemingly needless loss of life...we conclude that the law gives us no choice." Perplexed by such cases, legislators in Congress and in 27 states last year considered bills that...
Some HMOs are attempting their own limited reforms. Just a month before the Goodrich award, all HMOs in California agreed to submit to review by an outside panel of doctors. Fifteen states allow patients to appeal HMO decisions to a state board, though critics say the panels almost always side with the insurer...
...panel of 150 experts last week concluded that many congestive-heart-failure patients are not getting the best possible treatment. The experts recommend a regimen that includes digitalis and diuretics as well as two other key drugs, ACE inhibitors and beta-blockers, which are now underprescribed...