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What We Talk About When We Talk About Risk

March 1, 2012 | Journal Article

Current efforts to improve the cost-effectiveness of health care focus on assessing accurately the value of technologically complex, costly medical treatments for individual patients and society. These efforts universally acknowledge that the determ ...

Researchers Identify Four Key Areas to Reduce Health Care Disparities and Save Lives of African Americans and Hispanics

October 6, 2009 | Program Result Report

Researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry estimated the impact that eliminating disparities in health care between racial and ethnic minorities and whites would have on minority health.

Preventing Hysterectomy Among African-American Women

December 1, 2001 | Program Result Report

The Wholistic Health & Healing Association conducted a two-day forum in Sacramento, Calif., in April 2000 on uterine fibroids and African-American women.

Outcomes Following Coronary Stenting in the Era of Bare-Metal vs the Era of Drug-Eluting Stents

June 25, 2008 | Journal Article

Past studies have raised concerns that drug-eluting stents, in comparison to bare-metal stents, may contribute to stent thromboses. This observational study of approximately 60,000 Medicare patients did not support this finding, and found no increased risk of death or ST-elevation myocardial infarction for patients receiving drug-eluting stents.

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