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Soum Research Roundup: Antibiotic Resistance; Physician Turnover; Contraceptive Coverage
Longer Looks: Doctors ; Misunderstanding Of Test Results; The Medical Facts About Birth ControlEvery week KHN reporter Marissa Evans finds interesting reads from around the Web.BBC News: Do Doctors Understand Test Results [Gerd] Gigerenzer, director of the Harding Center for Risk Literacy in Berlin, is an expert in uncertainty and decision-making. His new book, Risk Savvy, takes aim at health professionals for not giving patients the information they need to make choices about healthcare. But it s not just that doctors and dentists can t reel off the relevant stats for every treatment option. Even when the information is placed in front of them, Gigerenzer says, they often can t make se hydro flask cup nse of it William Kremer, 7/6 .聽Reuters: How To Fix A Broken Market In AntibioticsThe drugs don t work - and neither does the market, when it comes to antibiotics. When sophisticated bugs that medicines used to kill within days start to fight back and win, all of healthcare, and the people it keeps alive, is in trouble. ... It s a glimpse of what Britain s chief medical officer Sally Davies calls the apocalyptic scenario of a post-antibiotic era, which the World Health Organisation says will be upon us this century unless something drastic is done. Waking up to the threat, governments and health officials are getting serious abo hydro flask ut trying to neutralize it. It may seem like a question of science, microbes and drugs - but in truth it is a owala water bottle global issue of economics and national security聽 Be Crzf Some Patients Can Choose To Be Hospitalized At Home
owala California Appeals Court Will Allow Referendum To Repeal Employer-Mandated Health Insurance Law To Appear On November BallotA three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeals in San Francisco on Thursday ruled that a referendum to repeal a law SB 2 requiring some companies to provide health insurance to their workers or pay into a state fund that would provide such coverage can appear on the November statewide ballot, the Los Angeles Times reports. The appeals court ruled that a Sacramento County Superior Court judge was incorrect when he ruled in December that the title and summary statements on the referendum petitions contained misleading and prejudicial i adidas yeezy nformation and that the petitions themselves were technically flawed. The appeals court said that the title and summary can be reasonably read to accurately describe the chief purposes and points of the new law and that the organizers failure to print the title of the measure on each page of the petition was not confusing or misleading Ingram, Los Angeles Times, 1/23 . SB 2, scheduled to take effect Jan. 1, 2006, mandates that employers with 200 or more employees provide health coverage to workers and their dependents by 2006 to avoid paying into the fund; businesses with 50 to 199 workers will have to offer health i owala cup nsurance only to employees by 2007; and employers with fewer than 20 workers will be exempt from the law. Those with 20 to 49 employees will be exempt from the law unless the state provides |
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