Stories Collection

  1. "Marriage promotion" represents a cornerstone of social conservatives' dom...
  2. In the beverage alcohol industry the potential for disaster was there last year: the ...
  3. DISTILLED SPIRITS CONSUMPTION BY CATEGORY, 2000-2001 (Thousands 9-Liter Cases) ...
  4. 2001 SHARE OF ON-PREMISE VS. OFF-PREMISE CASE SALES OF BEVERAGE ALCOHOL ...
  5. LEADING BRANDS OF CIDER, 1999-2001 (000 9-Liter Cases) Brand ...
  6. TRENDS IN WINE CONSUMPTION, 1997-2001 (Millions of 9-Liter Cases) Mil. C...
  7. TOP TWENTY BRANDS, 2001 CALIFORNIA Brand 9-Liter Cases (000) ...
  8. Statement-Making Necklaces One major craze that carried over from last season i...
  9. Style With Substance [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...
  10. They stretch up to the thigh, end at the knee or hit midcalf; come in eye-popping pu...
  11. Cancer June 22-July 23 This is a good time to reflect on the challenging ...
  12. Stars from across the globe--acclaimed actresses, models, uber-designers and other c...
  13. When Bazaar heard that Andrew Gn was coming to town, we teamed up with Bergdorf Good...
  14. 00-00-0000 Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services ...
  15. 00-00-0000 Hiring has never been easy. About two thousand years ago, officials in ...
  16. 00-00-0000 Are Your Paying Too Much for That Acquisition? Robert G. Eccles - Adviso...
  17. 00-00-0000 Most executives have a big, hairy, audacious goal. One dreams of making ...
  18. 00-00-0000 The Toxic Handler: Organizational Hero--and Casualty Peter Frost - Univ....
  19. 00-00-0000 Bill Thompson, a general manager at GenCorp, listened again to the voic...
  20. About 1 in 7 people over 65 suffers from depression. Although studies indicate that d...
  21. Q "I see ads that promote Ensure and Sustacal to older adults. I'm 65; are these supp...
  22. Diet and exercise has become a mantra for health-conscious consumers. According to a ...
  23. Over the past several years, atrial fibrillation, the most common type of irregular h...
  24. Only a decade ago, people with low back pain were routinely prescribed extended bed r...
  25. Increasingly, research has indicated that certain foods provide more than sustenance ...
  26. If worries about your heart keep you from traveling by plane, then recommendations fr...
  27. When using "the water pill" spironolactone, watch your potassium intake and check you...
  28. Estimating your chances of having a heart attack isn't an exact science. Do you re...
  29. Health claims' efforts to balance free speech with solid evidence could leave you con...
  30. Q The news that Vioxx was pulled from the market rattled me, since I had been taking ...
  31. In spite of clear guidelines for treating angina, many people don't get the treatment...
  32. In today's increasingly globalized and economically liberal market, one would hardly ...
  33. The experiences of Bolivia and Ecuador over the past few years highlight the strength...
  34. The "Celtic Tiger" roared during the 1990s. The dot.com bubble, low taxation, and cor...
  35. Much attention has been paid to the development of democracy in the Middle East and t...
  36. The intricacies of international laws designed to preserve peace and human life can b...
  37. The nature and potential of leaders and leadership has long been a preoccupation of p...
  38. I. LAW V. JUSTICE Many theologians, ethicists, political scientists and occasionally...
  39. Activist judges ... have begun redefining marriage by court order, without regard for...
  40. Will all federal regulations soon pass a benefit-cost test? If the OMB's 2003 report ...
  41. On the eve of Operation Iraqi Freedom, I was asked by Dr. Laurie Mylroie to write a 5...
  42. In less than five years, the United States has participated in three major military c...
  43. We will cooperate with other nations to deny, contain, and curtail our enemies' effor...
  44. How can psychotherapy heal divided minds? A central subject of debate at the origi...
  45. Q. What is modafinil? A. Modafinil (Provigil) is a unique stimulant that promotes ...
  46. Naltrexone A different kind of drug treatment for opiate addicts is the long-acting ...
  47. Opiates are outranked only by alcohol as humanity's oldest, most widespread, and most...
  48. Q. My elderly friend has a serious clutter problem. She can't throw things away or or...
  49. An experiment published in the journal Psychological Science demonstrates a surprisin...
  50. A Thousand Years of Good Prayers by Yiyun Li, Random House, 2005, $21.95 cloth, ISBN ...
  51. The options for treating fibroids are numerous and varied. Here's help in finding wha...
  52. When injury, disability, or balance problems threaten to sideline you, the right cane...
  53. Ugly and annoying, warts never go away fast enough. Several steps may help speed thei...
  54. Strong relationships with others can improve our health and help us live longer. F...
  55. Q Every year, I gain about 5 pounds over the holidays. And every year, it gets harder...
  56. Heartburn is the first sign of a gastric disorder that shouldn't be ignored. We've...
  57. Hawaii's non-profits reflect the rich diversity of needs and interests in our communi...
  58. Our cover subject, Walter Dods, needs no introduction. It is fitting that we feature ...
  59. Your [October 2004] story on Hawaii's Prepaid Health Care Act (PCHA) was interesting,...
  60. HONOLULU COUNTRY CLUB 1690 Ala Puumalu St. Honolulu, Hawaii 96814 Phone: (808)...
  61. Over the past few years many people have predicted the death of the Personal Digital ...
  62. I much enjoyed "The Re-education of Hilo," in the November 2004 issue. Over the past ...
  63. The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection denied Waste Management Dispo...
  64. The Environmental Protection Agency is proceeding with its remedial plan to clean up ...
  65. Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 officials announced completing removal of ch...
  66. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 announced work has been completed on a ...
  67. State and federal agencies are evaluating comments received on a proposed damage asse...
  68. Clean-up of PCB-contaminated sediment from Little Lake Butte des Morts in Wisconsin i...
  69. The Corps' Army Engineer Research and Development Center has issued an exclusive pate...
  70. Nitrate contamination can cause problems for any industry or agency, even prisons. Th...
  71. Australia's government says it remains determined to set up a radioactive waste dump ...
  72. A cleanup plan for the Geneva Steel property in Vineyard, Utah, has been approved by ...
  73. Stormwater runoff is transporting plutonium-laden sediments from Los Alamos National ...
  74. EPA and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) are overseeing a variety ...
  75. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration's (FMCSA) move to put electronic onbo...
  76. A 15-foot pipe may be responsible for causing the worst oil spill in nearly a decade ...
  77. A proposed liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Providence, R.I., has been given t...
  78. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) believes that a regional strategy to ...
  79. The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has begun a comprehensive review of Union P...
  80. Fall River, Mass., is calling for a new regulation to prohibit vessels from coming wi...
  81. 15 November Study day on water quality in hospitals Queens hotel Leeds www.smallplane...
  82. A "public arts project" at the Royal Aberdeen Children's Hospital has won the 2005 Sa...
  83. HD AND MARU jointly held a high-level multidisciplinary event at the end of October w...
  84. CARING FOR KIDS: Wiltshire-based Indigo Landscape Architects has been awarded the con...
  85. Peter Scher attended an interdisciplinary conference on Brunel's famous military hosp...
  86. Have you got sufficient back-up plans in place to supply vital fresh linen to your ho...
  87. For many social workers, the defeat of John Kerry in the November 2004 presidential ...
  88. Expectations for evidence-based professional practice influence health and mental he...
  89. Deinstitutionalization has increased the importance of community mental health servi...
  90. The recent occurrence of the tsunami in southwest Asia heightened awareness of the d...
  91. A growing emphasis on market-driven cost-containment strategies causes changes in th...
  92. In adapting to change and adversity, adults draw on coping resources developed over ...
  93. INTRODUCTION Many preventive services are underutilized by elderly persons in the U...
  94. BACKGROUND Medicare provides coverage for CRC screening for average risk enrollees ...
  95. INTRODUCTION Alcohol consumption has effects on a myriad of physiological systems, ...
  96. INTRODUCTION The Institute of Medicine's 2000 report on the human and financial cos...
  97. INTRODUCTION Under the current Medicare DRG-based IPPS, a hospital that fails to pr...
  98. INTRODUCTION As PPOs become the dominant model of managed health care in the privat...
  99. Patients' demand for imaging services continues to grow robustly, especially at frees...
  100. Metaphors are beginning to be recognized as powerful influences on the designers of h...
  101. The 2004 elections answered important questions for the medical and health care field...
  102. There will be no standing still in the coming decade for hospitals that want to succe...
  103. The Cleveland Clinic will establish an institute to study medical connections between...
  104. Two Minneapolis integrated delivery systems are in talks about a proposed collaborati...
  105. It's been 13 years now since we published the first edition of this magazine. A lot h...
  106. Entering the final phase of implementing a closed-loop medication management system, ...
  107. The American Medical Group Association is embarking on an initiative to create a huge...
  108. HEALTH I.T. CZAR GIVES UPDATE During a press conference following his Feb. 13 keynote...
  109. As CIO at Albemarle Hospital, Steve Clark just wants some basic information technolog...
  110. CIOs have down-to-earth goals for their I.T. wish lists. In addition to specific tech...
  111. The American Heart Assn.'s (AHA) Scientific Sessions 2001 will be held November 11-14...
  112. Manufacturers, med-surg suppliers and distributors hoping to attract medical patients...
  113. Integrated delivery networks (IDNs) are on the leading edge of adopting wireless comp...
  114. Device and med-surg supply marketers should be aware that physicians are purchasing e...
  115. HemaSure Inc., Marlborough, Mass., completed the sale of its assets, except for cash,...
  116. CardioNow[TM] Inc., Daly City, Calif., closed a third round of venture funding led by...
  117. Imagine that you have an eighteen-month old son who is suffering from severe pain in...
  118. Introduction At the conclusion of the famous article of 1953 announcing the mo...
  119. I. Introduction Since the late 1990s, health human resource (HHR) policy in Ca...
  120. One of the chief philosophical problems raised by human cloning is the question of h...
  121. Introduction Community treatment order, community committal, involuntary outpa...
  122. 1. Background Information derived from the Human Genome Project (HGP) promises ...
  123. Over the past few months there have been a number of well publicized controversies t...
  124. Background: Changes in the Nature and Use of Personal Information for Health Researc...
  125. "The cover of a recent edition of Time magazine features a research subject in ...
  126. Introduction Protection of human subjects of research involves governments, re...
  127. Introduction For the past several years the province of Newfoundland and Labra...
  128. Human research conducted at institutions receiving funding from any of the three fed...
  129. American Health Medicare of Puerto Rico selected Ram Technologies Inc.'s HEALTHsuite ...
  130. Premier Health Partners in Dayton, Ohio, a three-hospital enterprise, has selected th...
  131. Hospitals and healthcare systems across the nation continually evaluate strategies fo...
  132. Kodak's CARESTREAM Information Management Solutions (IMS) are designed for IT staffs ...
  133. Datalux IPIX all-in-one computers, designed specifically for point-of-care use, now f...
  134. IC-Manage is InteGreat's practice management solution, designed to add clinical infor...
  135. Known since ancient times, the head louse - Pediculus capitis - is a tiny, six-legged...
  136. Choosing a suitable form of birth control is a major decision for sexually active peo...
  137. Osteoporosis is a pressing health problem that's increasing due to our aging populati...
  138. With so much attention being paid to dietary excesses, it's easy to forget that iron ...
  139. Although heart disease has been considered mainly a "man's disease" and heart attack ...
  140. Dentists and physicians refer to it as "fetor ex oris," "halitosis" or "oral malodour...
  141. In his September 15 address to the nation, President George W. Bush said that Hurrica...
  142. Employee communications used to be relatively easy: Produce an internal newsletter, o...
  143. How Should Catholic Organizations Approach This Troubling Question? The most critical...
  144. Is canon law retroactive? As a rule, canon law is not retroactive. Rooted in Roman la...
  145. A Study Shows What Directors of Nursing Like and Dislike about Their Roles What a dif...
  146. An Indiana Program Teaches Participants How to Help People Caught in Crisis In 2000 t...
  147. 00-00-0000 Putting Family First: A Career Decision with a Healthy Outcome For yea...
  148. 00-00-0000 The Greening of the Caribbean: Ecotouring the Islands I planned to do ...
  149. 00-00-0000 Heads Up For Health: Making a Case for the Garlic Cure Tales of garlic...
  150. 00-00-0000 Making the Cut: Parents Debate the Circumcision Decision You've gotten...
  151. 00-00-0000 On the Stroll: Fitness-walk Your Way to Health Walking is one of the m...
  152. 00-00-0000 What's New? We love to celebrate new innovations -- timesaving gadgets...
  153. When Paul O'Neill became CEO of Alcoa, he declared a bold new aim: Alcoa would become...
  154. The merger and acquisition wave of the 1990s increased dramatically the numbers of ho...
  155. In his commentary on the taxonomy of health systems and networks that we originally d...
  156. I offer a brief reply to the Bazzoli, Shortell, and Dubbs thoughtful response to my c...
  157. A growing body of evidence suggests more nursing time per patient results in better p...
  158. Key Points * Some facilities get up and running quickly, while others take months t...
  159. Key Points * ADEs detected at a rate 3.6 times that of voluntary reporting at a uni...
  160. Depending on who you ask, the state of Massachusetts is either: a) on the verge of; o...
  161. Key Points * Number of wrong-site surgeries conducted on limbs or organs other than...
  162. Key Points * Legislature calls for more transparency between hospitals, patients. ...
  163. A first-of-its-kind study of a state's hospitals and their progress in implementing t...
  164. (INTER)NATIONAL HEALTH: Despite spending more than twice as much on health care as th...
  165. The emotional issue of immigrants' rights has been the focus of debate in many states...
  166. One of the first states in the nation to create a prescription drug web site, Minneso...
  167. U.S. not-for-profit hospitals and healthcare systems exceeded expectations and showed...
  168. CMS has proposed to increase the work relative value units assigned to the Medicare e...
  169. Moody's Investors Service cautions that the increasing number of health savings accou...
  170. COSTLY COINCIDENCE? On the same day that the federal government announced Medicare wi...
  171. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) reported that U.S. hospitals taking pa...
  172. $5.99 billion is the amount if revenues earned by the U.S. Cardiac Rhythm Management ...
  173. IBM and over twenty major worldwide public health institutions, including the World H...
  174. Ansell Healthcare recently published a new self-study educational module for healthca...
  175. The Integrated Healthcare Association (IHA) has announced receipt of a $675,000 grant...
  176. There are many over-the-counter toothpastes, gels and strips that can help brighten a...
  177. A sore or hole in the lining of the stomach is called an ulcer. How do you know that ...
  178. Teens are slightly more likely to use condoms when they have sex with a casual partne...
  179. Everyone knows that obesity is unhealthy, but now a new study shows that being obese ...
  180. Mexican-Americans who've suffered a stroke are 57 percent more likely than non-Hispan...
  181. Hives are red, welt-like bumps that appear on the skin as a result of an allergic rea...
  182. Drugs prescribed for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) were the topic o...
  183. Overdose of the over-the-counter painkiller acetaminophen (Tylenol) is the leading ca...
  184. Over the last 10 to 15 years there has been a dramatic increase in cardiac procedures...
  185. Cancer doctors who administer chemotherapy drugs intravenously in their offices have ...
  186. The New England Journal of Medicine recently published a study that dovetails nicely ...
  187. Nearly all antibiotics can cause pseudomembranous colitis in a small minority of peop...
  188. Mark A. Breiner, DDS Quantum Health Press, 1999. ISBN 0-9643870-2-6. $19.95. W...
  189. * The American Nutraceutical Association is overseeing a pilot study involving 60 ca...
  190. David Getoff, CCN, is a Board Certified Clinical Nutritionist and traditional naturo...
  191. An apple a day once kept the doctor away. Enter herb-laced beverages to boost your e...
  192. The team of E. Ernst and M. Pittler tackled the subject of homeopathy and its contro...
  193. * Research into the use of honey in medicine and as a functional food ingredient was...