Medicare: advancing towards the 21st century, 1966-1996.

Advancing 21st Century Competencies in East Asian Education Systems

Prevention of Legionnaires’ Disease in the 21st Century by Advancing Science and Public Health Practice

A potential decline in life expectancy in the United States in the 21st century.

Forecasts of life expectancy are an important component of public policy that influence age-based entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare. Although the Social Security Administration recently raised its estimates of how long Americans are going to live in the 21st century, current trends in obesity in the United States suggest that these estimates may not be accurate. From our...

Towards a 21st century health care system: advancing the case for telecare

Telecare is increasingly recognized as an essential tool for a contemporary twenty-first century health care system even though the evidence is still emerging on its effectiveness. The need to find delivery models like telecare that improve both the convenience and value of care is universal, but particularly pressing for countries like the U.S. and Israel who are facing rising costs related to...

Advancing biomarker science in the 21st century.

One of the primary objectives of scientific investigation in medicine is to inform patient care. The creative, imaginative, and intelligent study of advanced biomarkers, including genes, transcripts, proteins, and metabolic byproducts, may hold the key to redefining human disease and achieving optimal clinical outcomes. Given the global interest, overarching relevance, and inherent complexity, ...