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(Obama) Health care law’s insurance fees boost research (dementia study)
http://www.omaha.com/article/20130405/LIVEWELL01/704059893
By Rick Ruggles / World-Herald staff writer
April 5, 2013
A University of Iowa pharmacy professor will launch a dementia study with support from a new federal agency created by the Affordable Care Act.
Ryan Carnahan will test whether activities and more thorough medical workups for dementia patients might reduce the use of anti-psychotic drugs, which run the risk of side effects such as strokes, movement problems and lethargy.
“I think there's not a lot of expertise in the nondrug strategies,” he said.
Carnahan was the only researcher in Iowa or Nebraska with a project funded in the first round of money granted by a new agency, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. The first round — $41 million for 25 projects, an average of $1.64 million per project — went out in December. Another round is scheduled to be awarded this spring, and at least four metro-area researchers have proposed projects for funding.
FULL story at link.
