Cutting student costs

Unforeseen Costs of Cutting Mosquito Surveillance Budgets

A budget proposal to stop the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) funding in surveillance and research for mosquito-borne diseases such as dengue and West Nile virus has the potential to leave the country ill-prepared to handle new emerging diseases and manage existing ones. In order to demonstrate the consequences of such a measure, if implemented, we evaluated the impact of ...

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Cutting prescribing costs: learning from Birmingham in 1913.

The public's reactions Our national game is not cricket, it is writing letters to The Archers. My favourite came from the senior common room of a Cambridge college, inquiring whether Kenton and Shula are monozygotic or dizygotic twins. As Kenton is a boy and Shula a girl.... Congratulatory letters came particularly about Walter Gabriel's death, the evolution of Peggy's polymyalgia rheumatica, a...

The Faculty Costs to Educate a Biomedical Sciences Graduate Student

Academic medical centers nationwide face numerous fiscal challenges resulting from implementation of restructured healthcare delivery models, contracting state support for higher education, and increased competition for federal and other sources of biomedical research funding. In pursuing greater accountability and transparency in its fiscal operations, the Medical University of South Carolina ...

A review on laboratory tests’ utilization: A trigger for cutting costs and quality improvement in health care settings

Background: Considering the role of laboratory tests as a central part of controlling health expenditure, this study intends to investigate laboratory tests overutilization in Iran to pave the way for future interventions.   Methods: Inappropriate laboratory utilization was reviewed in a cross-sectional survey through the retrospective analysis of 384 medical records at a tertiary cente...