What kind of patients can benefit mostly from proton therapy?
The benefit is mostly one of convenience.
"The public is not aware that most social security spending is, rightly, spent on pensioners who have paid in all their lives; or that the Government's freeze on benefits mostly hits working people".
Among the 289 not working, 91 (31.5%) were on sick leave, 119 (41.2%) had a disability pension, and 76 (26.3%) had other social benefits, mostly work assessment allowance.
Orszag's caveat was that he'd prefer to meet halfway on benefit cuts and revenue increases rather than relying mostly on benefit cuts, as conservative Democrat Erskine Bowles and very conservative Republican Alan Simpson propose.
And this, as Robert Joyce of the Institute for Fiscal Studies explains, is "the chief reason why inequality declined with the recession: as wages dipped sharply, benefits were more stable, and benefits go mostly to those on lower incomes".
Here the drawings benefit from being seen mostly on their own; and some are rarely exhibited, like "Square House," with its shadowy combination of curving and straight-edged forms.
This also suggests that future trials that will evaluate the clinical benefits of NAVA should focus mostly on patients in whom a clear benefit is expected; this may include particularly patients with significant respiratory failure (or high EAdi).
Initially benefits will mostly focus on exome sequencing and rare mendelian conditions frequently encountered by clinical geneticists.
Unfortunately, unwanted side effects such as weight gain, heart failure and even osteoporosis, as well as discrepant results between genetic and pharmacological modulations of PPAR γ, outbalance the observed clinical benefits, which mostly rely on improved blood sugar control and lipid metabolism.
An estimated 250,000 benefit recipients – mostly people on jobseeker's allowance but also including pensioners or those on disability payments – still cash in their "green giro" cheques at Post Office counters rather than have them paid directly into a bank account.
