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Germany: Easing the burden of chronic disease; strengthening peer review...
Aware that the idea of "rationing" health care would prove controversial in the U.S., advocates of reform - from the American College of Physicians to the advocacy group Center for Medicine in the Public Interest - have suggested a system of review that doesn't take into account the cost of new treatments. This would help doctors decide a course of treatment, as currently they have no way of comparing the efficacy of different drugs for the same condition. But it could also raise prices. "In a free-market economy the manufacturers may use the effectiveness review to charge higher prices...
...that looks ravishing in whatever format the movie is shown in. Up will be projected in 3-D in many theaters, but there are no special boinggg effects, and you needn't pay the extra $3 to get the emotional or visual lift the picture delivers. In his Variety review, Todd McCarthy wrote that "the film's overall loveliness presents a conceivable argument in favor of seeing it in 2-D: Even with the strongest possible projector bulbs, the 3-D glasses reduce the image's brightness...
Still, Artal applauds the updated guidelines, which he calls an "excellent review of all the relevant research" and which are more accommodating of individual patients. "The reality is that no two pregnancies are alike, so flexibility is important," Artal says. These days, it seems, the age-old advice for mothers-to-be to "eat for two" no longer applies...
...Kurras, now 81, lives in Berlin with his wife, but his retirement is no longer peaceful. The Interior Minister of Berlin, Erhart Koerting, has called for Kurras' police pension to be put under review. And Berlin prosecutors have retrieved the old Kurras files from the archives in order to review the criminal case. However those issues play out for Kurras, the revelations offer further proof that the final version of Germany's shadowy postwar history has yet to be written - indeed, it may never...