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Medical care can be a gamble--and patients often don't understand the odds. University of California researchers aim to change that, with an interactive Web-based tool that they are calling the roulette wheel. This color-coded visual model uses a computer algorithm to help patients and their doctors assess the possible outcomes of different treatments. Take the prostate-specific-antigen (PSA) test for prostate cancer, for example. The wheel for PSA screening shows a typical patient the potential harm (incontinence, impotence, death) or benefit (no symptoms) that could result from treatment following a PSA test in which high...
Text-only classifieds render little of the feel of a home or its surroundings, but Trulia.com a new tool for buyers, brings fresh color to your search. Combining Google maps and listings from some 50,000 real estate sites, Trulia enables you to pick a city and drill down to a neighborhood, style of home and price range that appeal to you. You get pictures and contact info for following up. Still in beta, the site will go nationwide within months. A worthy alternative: Propsmart.com...
...Ethical Tool A burglar's Leatherman in a surgeon's pocket raises many complicated questions
...February means that the start of the University’s multi-billion-dollar capital campaign, slated to be the largest in the University’s history, awaits the selection of a permanent president to assuage donor uneasiness. Campaigns are the University’s most powerful tool for raising large sums of money for capital expenditures at the University. The most recent capital campaign, which ended in 1999, raised $2.6 billion. “As at most not-for-profit organizations, the very largest gifts are generally made when there is a senior leader in place...
...Visitation, Buttenwieser observes, “is not very glamorous, but that’s really one of the major functions of the Board.” And it has proved a useful tool before, he says: for example, visiting committees played an important role in spurring the current proposal to turn the Division of Engineering and Applied Sciences into its own school...