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...negotiators flying home from Kyoto this week with a climate-change agreement that may be less than they had hoped for, the coming generation of new energy technologies offers a ray of hope. In order to wean ourselves from the fossil fuels that are choking the planet, we need reliable alternatives. If anything can be done to accelerate the new technologies, we may all breathe a little easier...
Over the next few weeks, the medical team will try to wean the babies off their breathing tubes and IV infusions, and then start them on breast milk and formula to get their tiny digestive systems working. All the while, the doctors and nurses will be watching carefully; they're well aware that in the only other live septuplet birth, to a Saudi woman in September, three of the babies died a month later. They'll be giving the parents as many chances as possible to touch, hold and care for their children. On Friday, Bobbi and Kenny held Kenneth...
...Prudential Healthcare, have begun cutting back or eliminating reimbursement for both pills. Diet chains like Jenny Craig and Nutri/System are backing away from them too. Several states, meanwhile, have restricted the use of fen-phen. Last week the Florida legislature banned new prescriptions entirely and called on doctors to wean current patients from the drug within 30 days; it also put a 90-day limit on Redux prescriptions. Even New Jersey doctor Sheldon Levine, who touted Redux last year on TV and in his book The Redux Revolution, has stopped giving it to all but his most obese patients...
...residents) will earn $400 million in training subsidies during the next six years so long as they produce 2,000 fewer doctors, for a decrease of 20 percent in training rosters. Medicare, which has been subsidizing the physician education for thirty years, hopes in this way to wean the teaching hospitals away from the profitable practice of turning out an excess of specialists. Currently, hospitals earn an average of $100,000 for every resident they train, but pay the residents less than half of that, using the rest to bolster their overall finances. Says Bruce Vladeck, administrator of the Health...
...residents) will earn $400 million in training subsidies during the next six years so long as they produce 2,000 fewer doctors, for a decrease of 20 percent in training rosters. Medicare, which has been subsidizing the physician education for thirty years, hopes in this way to wean the teaching hospitals away from the profitable practice of turning out an excess of specialists. Currently, hospitals earn an average of $100,000 for every resident they train, but pay the residents less than half of that, using the rest to bolster their overall finances. Says Bruce Vladeck, administrator of the Health...