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According to a recent survey in the Archives of Internal Medicine, an average of 40 drug errors occurred each day of 1999 in a typical, 300-bed hospital or nursing home. That translates to about two errors per patient each day, most of which involved giving patients medications at the...
Kanevsky's first invention, designed while he was in school, is a wearable motor that translates speech into lower-frequency vibrations that can be felt on the skin. Kanevsky created it to help him learn to lip-read the speech of new acquaintances. He marketed the product through an Israeli...
That concern is widely echoed in economist circles--and widely ignored on Main Street, where millions of people have soured on the stock market and gone sweet on real estate. Even last week's 489-point one-day rally won't do much to change that view. Darren Scheid, 32...
“Over there, it’s a poor country, so people are not always fine,” he says, explaining the ambivalence of the standard responce to “How are you?”—in Creole, it translates as ?...
The report’s authors argued that the public’s perception of obesity and its causes translates into less government action to combat the problem. But they found that Americans hold contradictory attitudes that have competing influences on government policy.