News and Events of Interest
Schneider Research in the News
- Brandeis, Harvard, Boston University to Co-Sponsor Conference
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- Seniors' Healthcare Choices Expand
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- Few Heart Attack Survivors Use Life-Prolonging Cardiac Rehab
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- Screening for Behavioral Health First Step to Getting Treatment
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- Medicare Drug Plan Gets Mixed Grades
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- Research on Dengue's Burden Featured in Lancet Article Co-Authored by SIHP's Jose Suaya, Donald Shepard
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- Heller Dean Stuart Altman Testifies Before the US Senate Finance Committee on Health Care Reform
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- Cost Control Measures Limit Patient and Physician Choice in Psychotropic Medications
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- Internet Source of Behavioral Health Information, Not Counseling
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- Brandeis Evaluates $14 Million Project
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- SIHP Professor Receives Special Recognition Award
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- Institute on Healthcare Systems Seeks Director
More details - Schneider Institute for Health Policy Is Reorganized
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- Schneider Institutes, Mahidol University Hold Dengue Fever Workshop in Bangkok
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- Schneider Institute Researchers Host International Workshop to Analyze Data from Dengue Fever Studies
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- Media Tap SIHP Faculty on Historic Massachusetts Health Care Bill
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- Brandeis and Harvard Collaborate To Improve Substance Abuse Treatment
In Managed Care
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- Psychotropic Drug Prescriptions for Teens Surge 250 Percent
Over Seven Years
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- SIHP Study Indicates Drug Abuse Treatment for Connecticut Inmates
Reduces Rearrest Rates
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Read the SIHP study (pdf) - Drug discount cards save uninsured seniors hundreds of dollars a year.
Read the complete release - PBM-Administered Prescription Drug Discount Cards:
Savings for Uninsured Seniors
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New Research Projects Underway
- Determinants of Treatment Engagement and Time to Event of Recidivism for Young African-American and Latino Males
6/07-6/08. Funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, New Connections Initiative.
Read the project abstract - Assessing the Impact of Cultural Competence on Preventing Illegal
Tobacco Sales to Minors.
7/04-10/05. Funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. - Adolescent Primary Care Adoption of Substance Use SBI.
9/04-8/06. Funded by the National Insitute on Drug Abuse. - Evaluation of the Medicare Modernization Act.
10/04-9/06. Funded by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. - Research Center on Managed Care and Drug Abuse.
10/04-8/09. Funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse. - Computerized ASI Follow-up and Outcome System.
10/04-8/05. Funded by the National Insitute on Drug Abuse.