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The UGR Hill House The First Research Laboratory To Study Risk Conducts When Driving Motorcycles
The University of Granada will house the first European research centre on teenagers" mental mechanisms when driving motorcycles and carrying out risk conducts, which could be helpful, in a near future, to modify and avoid them. The Faculty of Psychology will house three state-of-the-art simulators there was already one at the UGR so far- that will be useful to do research into these mechanisms, thanks to an agreement signed with the company Honda Motor Co. (Europe); the University will become one of the most important centres around the world in this subject.

Climate Change, Hunger, Economy G8 Summit Top Priorities; France's First Lady Calls On G8 To Expand On Global Health 'Achievements'
President Barack Obama joined world leaders in Italy on Wednesday for "three days of intense talks on threats to global security and stability" at a G8 summit "where climate change, the continuing global economy crisis and world hunger got top billing," AP/Google.com reports (Babington, 7/8).
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Video Can Help Patients Make End-Of-Life Decisions
Viewing a video showing a patient with advanced dementia interacting with family and caregivers may help elderly patients plan for end-of-life care, according to a study led by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers. In their report in the journal BMJ, released online, the investigators find that participants who watched such a video in addition to listening to a verbal description of the condition were more likely to indicate they would choose only comfort care if they developed advanced dementia and also said they felt the video was helpful to their decision-making process.
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Today's Selection Of Opinions And Editorials

Actually, Failure Is An Option Congress Daily Here"s a perhaps unpleasant fact about the healthcare debate: Failure is an option, and might even be likely (Dick, 7/31). Parties May Find Compromise Better Than Nothing At All The Wall Street Journal The great health-care debate of 2009 ultimately will come down to this question: Who is prepared to accept half a loaf? Answer: Nobody wants to. But both sides -- especially the Democrats -- have some pretty powerful reasons to settle for one (Seib, 7/31). Health Reform"s Taboo Topic The Washington Post As the nation debates health-care overhaul, not addressing defensive medicine would be a scandal, a willful refusal by Congress to deal with one of the causes of skyrocketing health-care costs (Howard, 7/31). Repealing Erisa -- II The Wall Street Journal The worst thing that can be said about the House health bill is what"s in it. Presumably that explains why Speaker Nancy Pelosi"s office zapped as "false and misleading" one of our recent editorials - on the 1974 federal law known as Erisa that lets large businesses offer insurance with minimal government interference. Among the rebuttals is the "fact" that Democrats will give "all American families more choices of quality, affordable health care" (7/31). Health Care Realities The New York Times It"s not just that many Americans don"t understand what President Obama is proposing; many people don"t understand the way American health care works right now. They don"t understand, in particular, that getting the government involved in health care wouldn"t be a radical step: the government is already deeply involved, even in private insurance (Krugman, 7/30). Dishonest Debate Mars Bid To Overhaul Health Care USA Today The details are negotiable, but to let this moment pass without action would be worse than a shame. It would condemn increasing millions to a high-risk, high-cost system that is unworthy of the USA (7/31). Searching For the Cure in Health Care The Desert Sun During the last few weeks, the majority party in Washington has tried to cram through a massive government takeover of our nation"s health care system. This prescription is bad medicine and will do nothing to solve an extremely complex issue that costs the American people billions of dollars each year (Mack, 7/31). 13 in Congress Control Health Care Debate San Francisco Chronicle Here we have a major congressional push to fix a health care system that leaves one-sixth of the country without coverage. Here we have 535 House and Senate delegates elected to give all 300 million of us a voice in the solution. And here we have just 13 of those delegates holding the initiative hostage (Sirota, 7/31). Geography Won"t Help Control Health Costs The Detroit News Applying geographic-specific data to make cuts to particular regions, however, could lead to significant harm to the underserved, critically ill in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities and to the safety-net hospitals that serve them (Stobo and Rosenthal, 7/31). Health Reform and Cancer The Wall Street Journal The danger is that ObamaCare will stifle medical innovations that could save patients like me (Ulfik, 7/30). This information was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with kind permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. You can view the entire Kaiser Daily Health Policy Report, search the archives and sign up for email delivery at kaiserhealthnews.org. © Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. All rights reserved.


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