POL in Medical News

Vital New Quality Data on Hospital Readmission Rates Available on Hospital Compare Website

...hose readmissions can be prevented through appropriate changes in care delivery." Rita Munley Gallagher, PhD, RN, senior pol icy fello w , American Nurses Association: "Registered nurses are instrumental in ensuring coordination of care for patients. Among the myriad o...

Medical College of Wisconsin recognized for AIDS intervention research

...onversations. Research headed by Jeffrey A. Kelly, Ph.D., professor of psychiatry and behavioral medicine and director of CAIR, has shown that the pol intervention when carried out in communities of gay men, inner-city women, and disadvantaged adolescents reduces levels of HIV risk behavior by approx...

Biologist finds plant polymerases IV and V are really variants of Polymerase II

...are that plants have two more nuclear polymerases, pol IV and pol V. Now it is clear that these enzymes evolved from pol II over the past several hundred millions years. ...

Global Med Technologies(R), Inc. Implements Transfusion Management System in Large Private Physician Owned Laboratory

... 350-bed hospital. MIMA has the area's largest infusion clinic for the administration of outpatient chemotherapy and other injectables and is the only pol in the country to offer a transfusion service in a nationally accredited lab. MIMA now provides laboratory services at seven of their Brevard County l...

Bridges to Excellence Launches Medical Home Program

...'s what we all want from our health care system." Bridges to Excellence's pol was developed in collaboration with NCQA, a leading health care quality org...oday there are a number of ways for physicians to be recognized under BTE's pol program: complete NCQA's new version of its Physician Practice Connections ...

$1.5 Million Grant to Yale for Narcolepsy-Neurotransmitter Study

...eas dynorphin inhibits the activity. Van den pol and first author, Ying Li, an associate research s...ough channels in single nerve cells. Van den pol said that these neurotransmitters had different ef... simply cancel the actions of each other,” van den pol said. “But, interestingly, in the continuing prese...

Little Known DNA Repair Enzyme May Be A Tumor Suppressor Gene

...erstood enzyme, DNA polymerase zeta, also known as pol zeta, has the uncanny ability to give even heavily...ding yeast cells, and later in plants and animals, pol zeta has the remarkable ability to efficiently ext...ittschieben and his associates sought to determine pol zeta's key role in mice cells. To do this, they di...