Old McDonald had a farm (but no asthma)!

The team had no options.

[ 102 ] As noted by the authors, DNR is not yet recognised by law in India. There is, thus, no legal validity to such a directive. Under the circumstances the physician must tread carefully between legal imperatives and the principles of humane behaviour. Where there is reasonable ground to make a poor prognosis regarding recovery and survival, the physician is justified in obeying instructions...

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Area of Origin, But Not Farm or Sex, Predicts Horse Carcass Weight as a Main Effect

The aim of this study was to evaluate the differences between cold carcass weights (CCW) for the Catalan Pyrenean horse (Cavall pirinenc català) breed according to different variables: area of origin, farm, gender and age. Linear regression models were applied using a generalized linear model (GLM) procedure for CCW of 397 animals (217 males and 180 females) slaughtered in a commercial abattoir...

A 22-year-old woman had a lung mass.

A 22-year-old woman had an abnormal chest X-ray (Fig. 1) in her regular health examination. She was asymptomatic and a non-smoker. Chest computed tomography (CT) revealed a 4-cm soft tissue mass with internal calcifi cation (Fig. 2A) and enhancement in the left lower lobe (Fig. 2B). The patient received left lower lobectomy. What is the diagnosis? A. Bronchogenic carcinoma B. Bronchopulmonary c...

Medicaid enrollment policy increased smoking cessation among pregnant women but had no impact on birth outcomes.

Cigarette smoking during pregnancy is an important cause of poor maternal and infant health outcomes in the population eligible for Medicaid. These outcomes may be avoided or attenuated by timely, high-quality prenatal care. Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System for the period 2004-10, we examined the effects of two optional...