New drugs: who can afford them?

New drugs: who can afford them?

Providing outpatient prescription drugs through Medicare: can we afford to? Can we afford not to?

New reals: Can live with them, can live without them

Judah and Shelah [3] proved that countable support iterations of proper forcings preserve the ω-bounding property (see 2.2 here). In his book Proper and Improper Forcing [8, XVIII §3] Shelah gave several cases of general preservation theorems for proper countable support iterations (the proofs tend to be hard to digest, though). In this paper we deal with “Case A”. A simplified version of this ...

New recreational drugs and the primary care approach to patients who use them.

In recent years, hundreds of new drugs have appeared on the recreational drugs market in Europe. Some of these substances, such as ketamine and γ-hydroxybutyrate (GHB), have legitimate medical purposes. These compounds have been joined bymany novel psychoactive substances that, combined with their online marketing, pose a challenge for policy makers and health providers. The origins of these ne...

Stop-smoking medications: who uses them, who misuses them, and who is misinformed about them?

This study assessed smokers' beliefs about nicotine and the safety of nicotine medications and examined how these beliefs influence the use of nicotine medications. The data for this paper came from a nationally representative, random-digit-dialed telephone survey of 1,046 adults (18 years of age and older) current cigarette smokers conducted between May and September 2001. Respondents were que...