Word: piloting
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...eventful year for massage-therapy research. In March, researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine's Osher Center for Integrative Medicine published a study finding that Swedish massage, shiatsu foot massage, and acupuncture helped reduce pain and depression in postoperative cancer patients. An October 2007 pilot study by the Mayo Clinic showed that massage significantly reduced pain levels in patients recovering from heart surgery, prompting the internationally renowned treatment center to bring a full-time massage therapist onboard. That same month, the American Massage Therapy Association published a survey in which 30% of all respondents...
...fact, a moment of medical nostalgia that prompted the pilot study that became the foundation for the VA trial. Recalling his days as a surgical resident in the 1970s, Hinshaw says older nurses would regularly give massages to frail, elderly patients prone to delirium on postoperative drugs. The treatment - standard at the time - helped those patients. "But now most of the nurses who practice it are retired," he says, and, now, medical training adheres more strictly to quantitative means of evaluating patient progress. So, patients' individual concerns and worries are sometimes swept aside in the process, preventing them from receiving...
...beauty of paper-based media does not change the fact that, as this page often moans, “Paper is so 20th century,” which is why I, as part of Harvard College’s Resource Efficiency Program, am helping to implement a pilot project in Winthrop and Currier that allows students to opt out of receiving the paper at their doors daily. The program, which also allows students to opt out of delivery of other student publications and fliers, aims to reduce the use of paper on campus. It is with a heavy heart that...
...have any cell-phone-payment pilot projects going...
...more with cell phones in other parts of the world, which will come to the U.S., I expect. We have a deal with the GSM [Global System for Mobile communications] Association in which we're going to work together to create a person-to-person money-transfer pilot. We're not sure where yet, but we'll be making an announcement soon...