Vaccines don’t save lives. Vaccinations save lives

Do vaccines save lives? Yes they do!

Since their introduction and widespread use, vaccines have been very successful in reducing morbidity and mortality of the diseases they target, at an individual level and through herd immunity. The impact on the mortality has been rapid and easy to measure for some diseases, such as diphtheria, pertussis and measles. For other diseases, including hepatitis B and human papillomavirus infections...

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...

Does Medicare save Lives?

Health insurance characteristics shift at age 65 as most people become eligible for Medicare. We measure the impacts of these changes on patients who are admitted to hospitals through emergency departments for conditions with similar admission rates on weekdays and weekends. The age profiles of admissions and comorbidities for these patients are smooth at age 65, suggesting that the severity of...

Immunizations save lives!

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...