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MCBS Highlights: Access to Physicians

The Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) is a powerful tool for analyzing enrollees' access to medical care(Adler, 1994). Based on a stratified random sample, we can derive information about the health care use, expenditure, and financing of Medicare's 36 million enrollees. We can also learn about those enrollees' health status, living arrangements, and access to and satisfaction with car...

Easy access to antifungal agents.

Vulvovaginal candidiasis is a common problem; at one time or another most women experience at least one episode of this bothersome condition. For the past several years, the pharmaceutical industry has convinced women that this condition is easily treated and that they should recognize the symptoms of vulvovaginal candidiasis. Thus women have had access to a variety of intravaginal antifungal a...

Easy access to stable pentavalent uranyl complexes.

Reaction of UO2I2(THF)3 with 1 molar equivalent of KC5R5 (R = H, Me) in pyridine led to the uranyl(V) compound {[UO2(Py)5][KI2(Py)2]}(infinity), which is an infinite 1D polymer in its crystalline form; the UO2X(THF)n (X = I, OSO2CF3) complexes were obtained by reduction of their U(VI) parents with TlC5H5 or KC5R5 in THF.

Epilepsy surgery: historical highlights 1909-2009.

This review focuses on some historical highlights of the surgery of epilepsy, beginning with the reports of Horsley, Krause, and Cushing to which appeared in 1909, the year that The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) was inaugurated. We then outline key contributions from Europe and North America, and examine particularly the evolution of our understanding of temporal lobe seizures, w...

JScholar Publishers Historical Highlights of Endobronchial Metastases