Macaque advocates seek higher status

Should pediatric hospitalists seek formal subspecialty status?

Is it time for pediatric hospital medicine (PHM) to become a full-fl edged subspecialty? Yes! The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) defi nes a subspecialty as “That which provides advanced GME in a narrow fi eld of study within a medical specialty, eg, geriatric medicine within the fi eld of internal medicine.” In addition, many authorities feel that a robust research...

Higher order visual processing in macaque extrastriate cortex.

The extrastriate cortex of primates encompasses a substantial portion of the cerebral cortex and is devoted to the higher order processing of visual signals and their dispatch to other parts of the brain. A first step towards the understanding of the function of this cortical tissue is a description of the selectivities of the various neuronal populations for higher order aspects of the image. ...

Marin Advocates for Transit

Marin Advocates for Transit is very supportive of MTC's mission of regional coordination, and well recognizes the importance of this task. In furtherance of that mission, we offer the following comments on the draft Regional Transportation Plan EIR. We hope that these comments will help focus the RTP and its EIR on a full range of policy options to optimize the environmental and social conditio...

Federal budget disappoints seniors' advocates.

Do active patients seek higher quality prenatal care?: A panel data analysis from Nairobi, Kenya

Despite poverty and limited access to health care, evidence is growing that patients in low-income countries are taking a more active role in their selection of health care providers. Urban areas such as Nairobi, Kenya offer a rich context for studying these "active" patients because of the large number of heterogeneous providers available. We use a unique panel dataset from 2015 in which 402 p...