The misuse and abuse of controlled substances, especially those containing opiates, by the general public and in patients suffering with chronic pain is a problem attracting nationwide attention. This fact is reinforced by multiple congressional committees with jurisdiction over the epidemic, numerous hearings conducted by various committees, and the focus the administration. The United States ...

Many vital medications are in short supply in the United States, a situation that has sparked patient outcry and even congressional hearings. Topping the list of critically needed drugs are liquids that patients receive either by injection or intravenously. In fact, nearly 75 percent of the medications on the federal U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s shortage list are liquids, such as chemoth...

The Health and Welfare Information Association has compiled a report of the future trend and development of the home care and rehabilitation equipment industry by summing up the result of questionnaires of home care equipment users, which was conducted from September, 2007 to May,2008, the trend of performance of exhibitors participated in International Home Care and Rehabilitation Exhibition a...

While congressional committee members sometimes hold hearings to collect and transmit specialized information the floor, they also use as venues send political messages by framing an issue or a party public which I refer “grandstanding.” However, we lack clear understanding of when strategically engage in grandstanding. argue that have limited legislative power resort making grandstanding speec...

IN THE US A DISMAL TRUTH EXISTS about the citizenry’s lack of understanding of economic fundamentals. Perhaps the best example which illustrates this point is the April 2010 US Senate Hearings into the financial crisis. JPMorgan Chase’s Managing Director and Senior Economist James E. Glassman expressed in a memo his great frustration with the senators’ shocking lack of understanding of free mar...

We study a collective decision-making process in which people who are interested in an issue are invited to attend a meeting, and the policy chosen is a compromise among the preferences of those who show up. We show that in an equilibrium the number of attendees is small and their positions are extreme; in a wide range of circumstances the outcome is random. These characteristics of an equilibr...

Mental Health Act (1987) was notified by the Central Government in 1990.It took several more years for the State Governments to notify the rules required for its implementation. Even then actual implementation was delayed in most states till about four years back when Supreme Court during its hearings of the Public Interest Litigation (Writ petition 334 of 2001) on Erwady tragedy found that the...