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Though seen by some analysts as inevitable, a terrorist attack with a nuclear weapon may yet be averted if ongoing international efforts are intensified, said Sam Nunn, director of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
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Commonly available chemicals could be used to cause a food-borne disease outbreak that initially might confound investigators looking for a biological etiology, warn epidemiologists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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Reviewing two historical smallpox outbreaks, researchers in the United Kingdom say it may be possible to contain transmission of the virus without resorting to mass pre-event immunization. Indeed, unless there is a smallpox outbreak, the individual risks of pre-event smallpox vaccination may outweigh the potential benefits.
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With some citing the infamous Tuskegee incident, African-American postal workers exposed in the 2001 anthrax attacks were highly critical of the public health response, according to a recently published study. Researchers recommend that future communications on public health emergencies closely involve people from exposed population groups.
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Like an electrician unknowingly working with hot wires, researchers at a hospital in California found that a benign biological surrogate they were working with actually contained anthrax spores. Consider this cautionary tale from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
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How would you like to go from receiving no payment increases from one of your payers to receiving rate increases of 3% to 11% four years in a row? Sound impossible? Not for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in Ohio, which became proactive in educating their workers compensation board after receiving no payment increases for three years in a row.
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Surgery centers performing 5,000 or more cases per year showed operating costs of $582.65 per case in 2004, compared with operating costs of $985.03 per case for centers that performed 1,999 or fewer cases per year, according to a new report from the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) in Englewood, CO.
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The fifth in a series of Cataract Extraction with Lens Insertion best practices studies recently released by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care Institute for Quality Improvement (AAAHC Institute) shows that more intensive staffing and patient education can reduce the amount of time patients spend in the facility.
