Reagan Administration budget proposal threatens the VA medical care system

Aging veterans: will they overwhelm the VA medical care system?

Budget threatens Max-Planck closures

in the planning of experiments. " We need to develop ways of better training researchers in methodology to avoid this, " he said. Sir David Weatherall, founding director of the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine at Oxford University, said: " For medicine it's a way of life to be supported by the pharmaceutical industry. If you've been looked after by these people, unconscious bias is da...

Federal Budget Trends and the 1981 Reagan Economic Plan

N EARLY 1981, a newly inaugurated Ronald Reagan announced an economic plan which included goals of “an immediate, substantial, and sustained reduction in the growth of federal expenditur-es [and] a significant reduction in federal tax rates 1 After two terms in office, it seems time to examine the original Reagan budget plan in light of the actual performance over the 1980s. Althoirgh the budge...

Federal Budget Trends and the 1981 Reagan Economic Plan

N EARLY 1981, a newly inaugurated Ronald Reagan announced an economic plan which included goals of “an immediate, substantial, and sustained reduction in the growth of federal expenditur-es [and] a significant reduction in federal tax rates 1 After two terms in office, it seems time to examine the original Reagan budget plan in light of the actual performance over the 1980s. Althoirgh the budge...

The burden of diabetes-associated cardiovascular hospitalizations in Veterans Administration (VA) and non-VA medical facilities.

OBJECTIVE This study examines the relative burden of cardiovascular disease in diabetic and nondiabetic admissions to Veterans Administration (VA) and non-VA hospitals. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Calendar year 1997 hospitalization data were collected from the VA Patient Treatment File and the National Hospital Discharge Survey, National Center for Health Statistics. Discharge diagnoses based...