Louis Pasteur (1822-1895): his laboratory and the world
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The scientific accomplishments of famed French chemist Louis Pasteur are described. Pasteur directed his early research to the study of tartrate crystals, a by-product of wine making, and found that specific ferments were caused by specific organisms. He discovered that chemically alike substances could have very different optical properties. A body of his research focused on scientific aspects of 19th century industry, which included wine and silk production and livestock. Pasteur started studying human infections and the use of vaccines later in the 1870s, when he was in his 50s and had suffered a stroke. Although widely acclaimed, Pasteur was not wealthy like some of today's researchers and companies, but he does have more roads named after him in France than anybody else.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1995
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Managed care regulation: in the laboratory of the states
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State legislatures have picked up the ball that was dropped when the Clinton administration failed to reform the national health care system. In an unprecedented flurry of activity, state legislatures introduced over 400 bills to regulate managed care in the first half of 1996 alone. Most of the bills prohibited gag rules that forbid a doctor to discuss a treatment not covered by the plan. Others limited financial incentives to doctors for denying diagnostic tests or treatments. Other laws tried to promote continuity of care and provide doctors with due process rights if they were dropped from a plan.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1997
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