Physician Dissatisfaction Leads to New Medical Conference

LAS VEGAS, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- With changes in the nation's healthcare system looming and overall physician frustration at all-time highs, a new medical conference scheduled for debut at the Wynn Las Vegas this November has a very unique goal: to teach physicians how to break into alternative ...

Survey finds widespread dissatisfaction with current health care payment system

New York, N.Y., November 3, 2008Leaders in health care and health care policy feel strongly that the way we pay for health care in the U.S. must be fundamentally reformed. The latest Commonwealth Fund/Modern Healthcare Health Care Opinion Leaders Survey reports that more than two-thirds (69%) of r...

Postmenopausal Women's Sexual Dissatisfaction Not Linked to Heart Troubles

Study did see modest tie between displeasure, peripheral artery disease THURSDAY, April 10 (HealthDay News) -- Sexual dissatisfaction in postmenopausal women isn't associated with cardiovascular disease, say U.S. researchers. It's known that sexual dysfunction in some men is predic...

Sexual dissatisfaction in postmenopausal women not linked to cardiovascular disease

New York, April 2, 2008 Although sexual dysfunction in some men is predictive of cardiovascular disease, this association has never been examined in women. In an article published in the April 2008 issue of The American Journal of Medicine, researchers found no increased prevalence or incidence o...

Living In The Past Indicates Dissatisfaction With Present

Bonn: It might seem quite natural for the elderly to often slip happily into reminiscence but living in the past could indicate dissatisfaction with the present, says psychologists. // This phenomenon becomes a problem when an elderly relative starts living completely in the past and ignores t...

Recondo Technology Introduces New Software Service for Hospitals

...nt satisfaction, billing errors, denials, and bad debt. These operational problems, created by inaccurate eligibility determination, result in patient dissatisfaction and missed financial opportunities. EligibilityPlus resolves these challenging issues by delivering the most comprehensive insurance eligibilit...

Even Steroid-Free Bodybuilders Focus on Image

...es who used weight training to improve their physique, but weren't bodybuilders, had some characteristics associated with muscle dysmorphia, including dissatisfaction with their size and symmetry. "This is an important finding, because it shows that someone doesn't have to be big and buff to have concerns about h...

New Study Shows Many Unplanned Quit Smoking Attempts are Successful

...s the possibility that while quit attempts may seem like spontaneous efforts on the surface, they may actually be the result of prolonged subconscious dissatisfaction with or concern about one's smoking. The results do not discredit planning out a quit attempt, however, a smoker needs to determine what may be the be...

Florida State Tobacco Tax Increase May Prompt Smokers to Quit Spontaneously

...s the possibility that while quit attempts may seem like spontaneous efforts on the surface, they may actually be the result of prolonged subconscious dissatisfaction with or concern about one's smoking. The results do not discredit planning out a quit attempt, however, a smoker needs to determine what may be the be...

CED/Zogby Release Survey of Business Perspectives on Healthcare Reform

... that the employer-based healthcare system is not sustainable in the long-term. "During our research over the past three years, CED found strong dissatisfaction among business leaders with the current healthcare system. When over 60 percent of respondents believe the employer-based system is not sustainable - ...

Dissatisfaction in Medical Technology

Vanda Presents Phase III Iloperidone Efficacy Data

...mericans. Although there are many drugs approved to treat schizophrenia, including the commonly prescribed "atypical antipsychotics," a high degree of dissatisfaction remains among physicians and patients. The recent CATIE (Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness) study, conducted by the National...

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Receives FDA Acceptance of Iloperidone New Drug Application

...phrenia Although there are many drugs approved to treat schizophrenia, including the commonly prescribed "atypical antipsychotics," a high degree of dissatisfaction remains among physicians and patients. The recent CATIE (Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness) study, conducted by the National...

Vanda Pharmaceuticals Submits Iloperidone New Drug Application

...mericans. Although there are many drugs approved to treat schizophrenia, including the commonly prescribed "atypical antipsychotics," a high degree of dissatisfaction remains among physicians and patients. The recent CATIE (Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness) study, conducted by the National...

Trexima (Sumatriptan/Naproxen Sodium) Demonstrated Efficacy Across Multiple Migraine Attacks

...ck to Attack BOSTON, May 02, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Patients who suffer from migraines frequently cite inconsistent effectiveness as a reason for their dissatisfaction with their medicine. New data from more than 1,100 patients show that the investigational migraine therapy Trexima, when taken early, produced pain-fr...

Antipsychotic Iloperidone Results Show Favorable Akathisia Profile

...phrenia Although there are many drugs approved to treat schizophrenia, including the commonly prescribed "atypical antipsychotics," a high degree of dissatisfaction remains among physicians and patients. The recent CATIE (Clinical Antipsychotic Trials of Intervention Effectiveness) study, conducted by the National...

Dissatisfaction in Medical Products

Bio-Eye Hydroxyapatite (HA) Orbital Implant

Description:...ew of the literature on orbital implants, which included the earliest manuscripts dating back to 1885 (Mules 1885). This review, along with an ongoing dissatisfaction with the performance of contemporary implants, allowed Perry to identify the performance characteristics of an ideal orbital implant and, perhaps more...
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Dissatisfaction in Biological News

Children who are dissatisfied with their appearance often have problems with their peer group

...ing dissatisfied with one's appearance can also limit children and young people in their everyday lives. They might focus to such an extent on their dissatisfaction with their appearance that they find it difficult to think of anything else. Avoiding situations that make them feel self-conscious and uncomfortable,...

Body image program reduces onset of obesity and eating disorders

... and learn how to challenge current and future pressures to be thin. The program has also produced reductions in other important outcomes such as body dissatisfaction and eating disorder symptoms. Stice has partnered with area high schools on this study and has trained high school counselors to facilitate the weekl...

Adolescent girls with ADHD are at increased risk for eating disorders, study shows

...eveloping eating disorders in adolescence than girls without ADHD, a new study has found. "Adolescent girls with ADHD frequently develop body-image dissatisfaction and may go through repeating cycles of binge eating and purging behaviors that are common in bulimia nervosa," said University of Virginia psychologis...

Dissatisfaction in Biological Technology

iCardiac Processes Volume of Data Equivalent to One Thousand Traditional Thorough QT Studies

...try (ICH E14) requiring the evaluation of pro-arrhythmic potential of new drugs by measuring the QT segment of ECGs collected in clinical trials. The dissatisfaction among pharmaceutical developers with the poor precision and high cost of the "gold standard" manual QT measurements has lead to efforts towa...

LASIK and Vision Correction Experts from Trusted LASIK Surgeons Directory Achieve Top Awards at ASCRS Meeting

...ll Vision Center of the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), was honored for his contribution regarding "Factors Associated with Patient dissatisfaction after LASIK", which determined that LASIK eye surgery has a very high level of patient satisfaction (nearly 94.5%). Los Angeles LASIK eye surg...

iCardiac Reports Significant Revenue Growth and Profitability

...antially lowering the cost per Thorough QT study." The drive to greater automation of the cardiac safety analysis process stems from general dissatisfaction in the industry regarding "gold standard" manual measurements that are both time-consuming and expensive. iCardiac's highly automated QT tec...

Environmental Operating Solutions Completes Initial Tranche of $2.5 Million Institutional Financing

..., a flammable and toxic liquid derived from nonrenewable natural gas, is the legacy carbon source used in wastewater denitrification. There is growing dissatisfaction in the wastewater treatment industry with the safety profile, performance limitations, and price volatility of methanol. In addition, increasingly str...

Hope For Some U.S. Tech Workers

...oblem for other tech companies as well. Given the importance of Dell as a market leader, this could become a trend as other companys customers express dissatisfaction when dealing with outsourced support services. I would not be surprised to see Hewlett-Packard, Sun Microsystems and others follow Dells lead in the n...

Return of Retention

...s want to stay with your organization instead of taking the first offer they get to escape elsewhere? Youll need to increase pay and benefits to erase dissatisfaction but having a compelling workplace proposition is the only thing that will convince people to stay and recommit to your company. 5. Give Talent Some...

Are women opting out or shut out from career tracks?

... appreciated or well-utilized by their previous employers. Indeed the authors assert that women in the business sector are pushed off track more by dissatisfaction with work than pulled by external demands. Fifty-two percent of respondents with MBAs in the business sector indicated they left work because they no ...

Is outsourcing reaching its limits or simply pausing for breath? - Part II

...to five years. So offshore outsourcing presents a paradox -- overall growth is expected to continue even though the number of problems and level of dissatisfaction with this practice are forecast to increase, as well. I guess all the companies planning on sending IT work and jobs overseas feel that the potenti...

Who will win the battle to redefine the workplace?

...compromises they would be willing to make in order to achieve this. Unhappy to Be Here The Redesigning Work survey revealed shocking levels of dissatisfaction among the knowledge workers polled. Over fifty percent were dissatisfied with their ability to achieve work/life balance (56%), their sense of achieve...

Satellite radio can promote your national brand

...005 study of 500 satellite radio users by Eldon University, the most frequently mentioned reason cited by enthusiasts for adopting satellite radio was dissatisfaction with the programming on AM/FM radio. The study said that satisfaction among satellite radio enthusiasts is very high. 98 percent indicated they are "v...