Eradication Efforts Need Needle-Free Delivery

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Many companies are developing vaccine-delivery systems that do not use needles. Needles can transmit diseases if they become contaminated. Developing countries in particular may reuse needles to save money. As of 1999, most children now receive 14 vaccine injections, up from 8 in the 1980s. Consequently, the development of needle-free delivery systems is crucial. Jet injectors use compressed gas to push the vaccine through the skin at a high velocity. However, they can also become contaminated. Another problem is the lack of a single standard device that can be used anywhere.

Innovations, Equipment and supplies, Children, Vaccination of children, Vaccination, Syringes, Hypodermic syringes

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In post-Katrina New Orleans, efforts under way to build better health care

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The devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina are reflected in a drastically reduced health care work force and infrastructure in New Orleans, a year after the storm ravaged New Orleans and the surrounding Gulf Coast in 2005. The City administration are contemplating on how to create a pot-Katrina health system that serves New Orleans' low-income population better than before the storm and is focusing on building a decentralized system that does not have a safety-net services heavily concentrated in downtown New Orleans as was the case in the past.

Government expenditures, Management dynamics, Louisiana, Health aspects, Management, Emergency medical services, Company business management, Government finance, Hurricane Katrina, 2005, Post-disaster reconstruction

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France and United Kingdom Channel Efforts to Improve Health Services

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Both France and the UK are taking steps to improve their health care systems. Physicians and government officials from both countries met in June, 1998, to discuss common solutions to their problems. Despite demographic similarities, the two nations have very different health care systems. In the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) manages a universal health care system that is publicly funded. In France, some health care is publicly financed but patients pay co-payments and can choose their physician.

United Kingdom, France, International aspects, Medical care, Science and technology policy

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