Replacement of traditional fee-for-service health care with capitation, the rising costs of new medical technologies, the duplication of health services among competitors, and the need to attract physician networks and managed care contracts, are some of the factors that necessitate collaborative efforts among health care facilities. Although the Ethical and Religious Directives for Health Care...

O f the many awards given out for health care websites, the most prestigious are the annual eHealthcare Leadership Awards, presented by the online publication eHealthcare Strategy & Trends^ which is based in Rye, NY. The hospitals and health care systems that win these awards arc, without fail, especially intent on extending their mission and sen ices into the online environment. Catholic -spon...

Division of Cardiology, Incheon St. Mary’s Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea; Heart Institute, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul; Department of Applied Statistics, Gachon University, Seongnam; Division of Cardiology, Seoul St.Mary’s Hospital, Department of Internal Medicine, College of Medicine, The...

S. Van Cauter, D. Sima, L. ter Beek, J. Luts, Y. Li, M. I. Osorio Garcia, S. Sunaert, S. Van Huffel, and U. Himmelreich Department of Radiology, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, Department Electrical Engineering – ESAT/SCD, Catholic University Leuven, Philips Medical Systems, School of Electronical Engineering, University of Electronic science and technology of China, Chengdu, Chin...

(KIR) gene in children with Bacille Calmette-Guérin lymphadenitis Hyo Jin Kwon, MD; Seong Joon Kim, MD; Jong-Hyun Kim, MD, PhD; HeeBaeg Choi; Tai-Gyu Kim, MD, PhD; Dae Kyun Koh, MD, PhD; Jin Han Kang, MD, PhD; Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea; Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seo...

I am Richard M. Doerflinger, Deputy Director of the Secretariat for Pro-Life Activities at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. I also serve as Adjunct Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. On behalf of the bishops’ conference I want to thank this subcommittee for asking us to present our views on cloning and embryonic stem cell (ES...

RESUMO 1Full Professor, School of Dentistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba,Brazil. 2Doctor Professor, Endodontics, Department of Operative Dentistry, Bauru Dental School, University of São Paulo. 3Full Professor, School of Dentistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil. Corresponding address: Vânia Portela Ditzel Westphalen Rua Pasteur, 486, ap 401 Cu...

transplantation in Korean children under relatively short-term acyclovir prophylaxis Seung Beom Han, MD; Jae Wook Lee, MD, PhD; Dong-Gun Lee, MD, PhD; NackGyun Chung, MD, PhD; Bin Cho, MD, PhD; Dae Chul Jeong, MD, PhD; Jin Han Kang, MD, PhD; Hack-Ki Kim, MD, PhD; Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea; Division of Infectious Diseases,...

This article reports the findings of research into staff bullying in the Catholic schools of a large metropolitan area in Australia. A summary of the responses from over two hundred staff members to a survey instrument containing both closed-format and open-ended components is presented. It was found that a large percentage of teachers (97.5%) perceive they are or have been bullied. Specific ex...