Improvements in quality of care associated with the GP pay for performance scheme in the UK appear to have been achieved at the expense of small detrimental effects on non-incentivised aspects of care.

BETHESDA, Md., Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) released a framework for classifying and assessing unintended consequences of health information technology (HIT) and policy during its 4th Annual invitational Health Policy Conference.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Deloitte today released a study, Avoiding no man's land: Potential unintended consequences of follow-on biologics, that explores the debate on creating a regulatory pathway for the approval of follow-on biologics (FOBs), drugs that are envisioned as the biotech equivalent of generic pharmaceuticals.

Only sick people torture animals. However, there are too many people today who believe we are just "animals." We are not! Remember what the definition of "animal" is. This bill would make killing mice, rats, gophers, snakes, etc. a felony, or in the watered-down versions, a misdemeanor.