This was compared to a 'usual care group' of thirty subjects.

The reduction was due to more severe symptoms with longer hospital stay in the supportive care group.

The drug has to be on what is called "the formulary," a list that managed care groups approve.

Students are sorted into pastoral care groups within their year levels and populate from 20 - 25 in each group.

But this is the first effort by doctors to call for changes in the practices of the managed care groups.

"Even toward the very end, she was gratified to know that this idea of care groups was indeed spreading."

The rest is roughly split between Government health plans and managed care groups, who demand fixed discounts.

Managed care groups came in and said 'That's not fair.

The managed care groups that withdraw such coverage now are prohibited from returning to a market for two years.

Indeed, managed care groups can be expected to invoke the contracts they worked out for Federal employees in negotiations with private industry.