News tagged with prescribing

Evidence in ashes

The devastation of Black Saturday bushfires gave researchers an unparalleled opportunity to come up with bushfire answers.

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 28, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Establishing a new scalar curvature flow method

Mathematically, is it possible to continuously deform a rough sphere into a perfect sphere? Under what situations can we solve the differential equations?

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Feb 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Black Friday provides bushfire answers

Clearing vegetation close to houses is the best way to reduce impacts of severe bushfires, according to a team of scientists from Australia and the USA who examined house loss after as a result of Black Saturday, when a series ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Pilbara mistletoe faces sub-regional extinction

A new study from the Department of Environment and Conservation suggests long-term modern fire regimes could pose a threat to WA mistletoes (Loranthaceae sp).

Space & Earth / Environment

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Emission sources identified in Huon Study

Emissions from domestic wood-fired heaters in southern Tasmania's Huon Valley dwarf emissions from forest regeneration burns, according to a new CSIRO study.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Aug 24, 2011 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Sustaining the biodiversity of the western Great Plains

Fire, cattle and even prairie dogs all could play a role in sustaining the biodiversity of the western Great Plains, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) researcher.

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Aspects of prescribed burning questioned by experts

The scientists (from The University of Western Australia, Kings Park and Botanic Garden, and Kew) argue that deliberately increasing the frequency of fires may lead to ecosystem degradation and loss of biodiversity.

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 18, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Not following doctor's orders: Prescription abandonment

Failure to have a prescription filled can undermine medical treatment, result in increased health care costs and potentially have devastating results for the patient. An editorial in the Nov. 16 issue of the Annals of In ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 16, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Push for better ways to share e-health records

(AP) -- Think you entered the digital health age when your doctor switched from paper charts to computerized medical records? Think again: An e-chart stored in one doctor's computer too often can't be read by another's across ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 25, 2010 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Docs not immune to drug marketing: study

Pharmaceutical promotion may cause doctors to prescribe more expensively, less appropriately and more often, according to a new study co-authored by York University professor Joel Lexchin.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Oct 19, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

4,000-year study supports use of prescribed burns in Southern Appalachians

A new study reconstructing thousands of years of fire history in the southern Appalachians supports the use of prescribed fire, or controlled burns, as a tool to reduce the risk of wildfires, restore and maintain forest health ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 06, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study: E-prescribing cuts medication errors by seven-fold

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Cornell medical school study finds that when doctors use electronic systems to write prescriptions, they make seven times fewer errors than when they scrawl by hand.

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 31, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Prescribed burns may help reduce US carbon footprint

The use of prescribed burns to manage Western forests may help the United States reduce its carbon footprint. A new study finds that such burns, often used by forest managers to reduce underbrush and protect bigger trees, ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Mar 17, 2010 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Physicians click their way to better prescriptions

Is it time for all community-based doctors to turn to e-prescribing to cut down on the number of medication errors? According to Rainu Kaushal and colleagues from the Weill Cornell Medical College in New York, electronic ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers study program to help older adults transition from hospital to home

In light of health care reform measures, Rush University Medical Center has launched a study of its program to help older adults transition from hospital to home.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0