EC hankers after more Framework research spending

Saving money by spending more.

Spending on medical care: more is better?

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Spending more on turning patients into people.

deriving an average respectively of 44% and 32% of calories from fat. Furthermore, although careful steps were taken to validate the dietary questionnaire, the inevitable imprecision of data derived from questionnaires was evident from the information provided. The best evidence of any causal association would be provided by an intervention study. The United States National Cancer Institute wil...

The Obama plan: more regulation, unsustainable spending.

The health reform plan put forth by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) focuses on expanding insurance coverage and provides new subsidies to individuals, small businesses, and businesses experiencing catastrophic expenses. It greatly increases the federal regulation of private insurance but does not address the core economic incentives that drive health care spending. This omission along with the very su...

MAGIC – IFATIS: EC-Research Projects

In this contribution two European research projects funded by the European Commission in the framework of the IST programme are introduced. The goal is to present the basic ideas and concepts of the projects “ Multi-Agents-based Diagnostic Data Acquisition and Management in Complex Systems (MAGIC)” and “Intelligent Fault Tolerant Control in Integrated Systems (IFATIS)” which both aim at the sol...