Clean energy can save lives

Can lean save lives?

PURPOSE The purpose of this paper is to show how over the last 18 months Bolton Hospitals NHS Trust have been exploring whether or not lean methodologies, often known as the Toyota Production System, can indeed be applied to healthcare. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY/APPROACH This paper is a viewpoint. FINDINGS One's early experience is that lean really can save lives. The Toyota Production System is a...

Therapeutic Cloning Can Save Lives

Banning therapeutic cloning would block research that could lead to cures for many diseases. In therapeutic cloning, genetic material from an adult cell is placed inside an egg to grow beneficial stem cells, not to produce a baby. Therapeutic cloning would allow a patient's own genetic material to be used to repair his or her damaged cells. There is broad consensus in the scientific community t...

How Greater Accountability Can Save Lives

With stunting rates for children under five at 58 percent in Burundi, maternal mortality rate at 488 per 100,000 live births in Kenya, child mortality rate at 76 per 1,000 live births in Rwanda, 27 percent unmet need for contraceptives in Tanzania, and skilled attendants at only 59 percent of births in Uganda, the East African Community Partner States have an opportunity and are committed to im...

hand hygiene in healthcare settings: clean hands save lives

How Greater Accountability Can Save Lives

With stunting rates for children under five at 58 percent in Burundi, maternal mortality rate at 488 per 100,000 live births in Kenya, child mortality rate at 76 per 1,000 live births in Rwanda, 27 percent unmet need for contraceptives in Tanzania, and skilled attendants at only 59 percent of births in Uganda, the East African Community Partner States have an opportunity and are committed to im...