How to turn conflict into collaboration when patients and physicians disagree
PHILADELPHIA, May 4, 2009 -- In an era when people are more informed about their care and more assertive with their physicians, an impasse can develop over issues as simple as a patient insisting on unnecessary tests or medications or as complicated as end-of-life care. To help better prepare p...Lutheran World Relief Responds to Escalating Conflict in Sri Lanka
BALTIMORE, April 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Lutheran World Relief is responding to the urgent humanitarian needs of people displaced by fighting between the Sri Lankan government and the separatist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Armed conflict in Sri Lanka continues to esca...2 Studies Conflict Over Value of Prostate Cancer Screening
Doctors acknowledge that the PSA test is a far from perfect tool WEDNESDAY, March 18 (HealthDay News) -- Two new studies offer conflicting views on the value of screening men with a prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test to check for prostate cancer. But at least one leading oncologis...Bauer Notes Conflict Between Life and Death in Obama's Executive Orders
WASHINGTON, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former presidential candidate Gary Bauer on Friday called it "sad and infuriating" that in the same week in which President Obama issued an executive order extending freedom to murderers he issued death warrants to innocent unborn children overseas. ...Humanitarian Needs From Georgia Conflict Still Growing, World Vision Warns
-- World Vision beginning assistance in North Ossetia, expands aid in Georgia -- Agency's Child-Friendly Spaces will provide safe place for children to play, learn, heal -- "Bullets were flying around like hail," young mother tells World Vision staff TBILISI, Georgia, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire...May 2008 issue on conflict and crisis settings: Promoting sexual and reproductive rights
Amsterdam, 24 June 2008 - Elsevier announced today Reproductive Health Matters ' May 2008 issue on the theme of "Conflict and Crisis Settings: Promoting Sexual and Reproductive rights". Under conditions of global economic and ecological crisis as well as rampant militarism, growing numbers of ref...Mother-Child Bond Affects Quality of Conflict Resolution
Security determined outcome of 'terrible 2s' battles but not frequency, study suggests THURSDAY, April 3 (HealthDay News) -- The way mothers and their 2-year-olds relate to each other affects the quality -- but not the frequency -- of conflict during the "terrible twos." And a child's...The conflict of reward in depression
In Love and Death, Woody Allen wrote: To love is to sufferTo be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer. The paradoxical merging of happiness and suffering can be a feature of depression. Biological Psychiatry, on April 1st, is publishing a new study of regional brain activity using fu...Relatives who decline organ donations face conflict and guilt
Family members are sometimes unable to carry out their relatives wish to donate organs when they die, because of conflicting feelings between making a gift of life and protecting the body of the deceased, according to research in the latest Journal of Advanced Nursing. Researchers from the Univ...New Conflict of Interest Violations Revealed at California Stem Cell Institute
Tainted Research Grant Applications Must Be Rejected, Consumer Advocates Say SANTA MONICA, Calif., Dec. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More apparent conflict of interest violations in applications for research grants in California's $6 billion stem cell program were revealed today and the Fo...GAA Calls on Secretary Clinton to Speak Out Against Gender-Based Violence During Her Africa Trip
... to focus attention during her visit on preventing conflict and violence, including gender-based violence, on ... torture in Democratic Republic of the Congo since conflict there began in 1998. Liberia has a culture ...sexual violence that is a carry-over from years of conflict there. South Africa has one of the highest ...First Year Results of the AXA Research Fund: Over Euro 13 Million Allocated for Research in 2008
...of the impact and dynamics of marine aliens in the context of climate change (Queen's University Belfast) Project dedicated to assessing civil conflict risks (Universitat Autonoma of Barcelona) Project entitled A structural approach to inflation and term structure (EDHEC Business School of Li...Device Blocking Stomach Nerve Signals Shows Promise in Obesity
... in the development and preclinical testing of the device, the initial clinical research was conducted elsewhere to avoid having results affected by a conflict of interest. The participating centers for the initial study were Flinders Medical Centre, Adelaide, Australia; Instituto National de la Nutricion (IN...Interview of the Vice President
...ce. There have been other elements involved -- we've had some Shia-on-Sunni conflict and so forth -- but a lot of that was stimulated by al Qaeda. Zarqawi goes ...hink national boundaries play into that? The fact of the matter is, in this conflict national boundaries don't have the kind of significance they might have had...Remarks by President Bush on Stem Cell Veto and Executive Order
...ly that these exciting advances continue to unfold. Technical innovation in this difficult area is opening up new possibilities for progress without conflict or ethical controversy. So I invite policymakers and scientists to come together to speed our nation toward the destination we all seek -- where medic...NUVO Surgical Light - Double Light Head
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CORVALLIS, Ore. Two Oregon State University researchers have uncovered a pattern of distrust and sometimes outright antagonism among physicians at hospitals and midwives who are transporting their home-birth clients to the hospital because of complications. Oregon State University assistant...Regional nuclear conflict would create near-global ozone hole, says CU-Boulder study
A limited nuclear weapons exchange between Pakistan and India using their current arsenals could create a near-global ozone hole, triggering human health problems and wreaking environmental havoc for at least a decade, according to a study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder. The comp...Valuing ocean services in the Gulf of Maine -- New approaches for conflict resolution
Humans have exploited the marine resources of the Gulf of Maine and Georges Bank, from marine mammals to commercially valuable fish and shellfish, for centuries. The result, says NOAA researcher Michael Fogarty, has been dramatic changes in the structure of the ecosystem due to the direct effect o...Divergent mating systems and parental conflict as a barrier to hybridization in flowering plants
Sexual reproduction can be thought of as a cooperative process in which two individuals come together to produce a new individual. It can also be viewed as a process in which two parties with differing interests, investment, and background interact to produce a new individual. From the former persp...Maternal, paternal genes' tug-of-war may last well into childhood
...e genes of maternal origin tend to have the opposite effect. This new work suggests maternal and paternal genes continue to engage in internal genetic conflict past childbirth. "This analysis suggests that human life history, and especially humans' unusual extended childhood, may reflect a compromise betwe...Results of national assessment of first responder location systems to be announced Aug. 3
...rous assessment, which included several fire and police scenarios, was designed and conducted by researchers in WPI's PPL research program. To avoid a conflict of interest, the groundbreaking location systems developed by the WPI team were not included. "The real goal of the national assessment was for DHS...Battle of the sexes benefits offspring, says research
...remating and having more offspring, so parents face a trade-off between caring for current offspring and creating future offspring. "This creates a conflict of interest between parents, since each parent would benefit by leaving their partner holding the baby whilst they go off and start a new brood elsewh...Hidden genitalia in female water striders makes males 'sing'
...lication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, Han and Jablonski used common insects, water striders, to study the intricacies of evolutionary conflict between males and females. The mechanisms for the way Darwinian natural selection, acting separately on males and females, result in different traits ...The evolution of gene regulation
...oorganisms play a role. "Our results clearly show that both principles are valid, even though they are actually contradictory," Gerland says. "In this conflict between maximal and minimal use of the regulators, other criteria do in fact come into play: the population size and the periods over which the enviro...Late motherhood boosts family lifespan
...played a role in the prolonged fertility and longer lives of the women, and the longer lives of their brothers. Smith says the new findings do not conflict with one of his earlier studies finding that having larger families reduced parents' lifespan. Both findings can operate together. ...Managing Conflict of Interest Disclosures Simplified for Healthcare Organizations
HCCS Releases New COI Management and Tracking Tool JERICHO, N.Y., April 21 /PRNewswire/ -- HCCS (Health Care Compliance Strategies, Inc.), the leading provider of online healthcare compliance and competency solutions, today announced the release of COI-SMART, a web-based system for the manage...Stem Cell Agency Finally Reveals Institutions Involved in Conflict Problem
After Public Pressure, Five Research Institutions Are Identified During Grant Award Discussion LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California stem cell agency's decision today to reveal the names of five research institutions whose applications for research grants were reje...Geezers, grungers, gen-Xers and geeks - a look at workplace generational conflict
Let me admit right off that the title of this article is deliberately misleading. It feeds into the popular misconception that the workplace is populated by a bunch of generational tribes engaged in rivalries and conflicts with each other. Unquestionably there are real differences, misunderstandi...ASM International N.V. and SAFC Hitech(TM) Sign Certified Manufacturer and Partnership Agreement
... involving intellectual property, shareholder and other issues, commercial and economic disruption due to natural disasters, terrorist activity, armed conflict or political instability, epidemics and other risks indicated in the Company's filings from time to time with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commiss...SectorWatch.biz Issues MarketStats on Agri-Biotech Equities YGYB, GRO, SEED, MON, ADM, and BG
...MP has been paid 1,500 dollars by SmallCapVoice.com for preparation and distribution of this report and other advertising services. This constitutes a conflict of interest as to MP's ability to remain objective in its communication regarding the subject company. ...Biovail Concerned Shareholders Want Open Debate
...t also calls the appointment of Mr. Wells as CEO "inappropriate from a corporate governance standpoint" and suggests that there was an appearance of a conflict of interest in awarding lavish compensation packages to Mr. Wells and his predecessor at a time when the company is struggling financially. "We beli...Canada's Largest Urban Community Hospital Chooses Chyma(TM) On-Call Physician Scheduling Technology
...onals want including: -- Rapid generation of schedules -- Schedule grouping for multi-departments and multi-communities -- Vacation approval -- conflict catcher -- Intuitive Vista and Mac look -- OnNow! full screen (airport style) display -- File and 'contact' sharing, and secure email across commun...XTL Biopharmaceuticals Announces Appointment of Laurence N. Charney to Board of Directors
... & Young, Mr. Charney most recently served as the Americas Area Director of conflict Management. In that role he had oversight and responsibility in ensuring compliance with global and local conflict of interest policies for client and engagement acceptance across all servic...