Pneumococcal vaccine saves money but is underused

An Ounce of Prevention: Tobacco Control Saves Lives, Saves Money

[Hypothermia after cardiac arrest--underused method that saves lives].

Cardiorespiratory arrest causes ischemia and lesion of all organ systems, but the central nervous system is the most vulnerable. It is known that only few minutes of hypoperfusion and ischemia can cause irreversible damage to the brain which is the major frustration of reanimatology. Results of clinical trials suggest positive effects of hypothermia on survival and neurological recovery which l...

Test compression saves bits, cycles, and money

&AS DESIGN SIZES have grown larger and semiconductor manufacturing processes have scaled down to extremely small feature sizes, the number of test vectors needed to thoroughly test a chip has exploded. To alleviate this potentially road-blocking issue to further technology scaling, test data compression became an active research topic in the late 1990s, and has now become a standard offering wi...

Nasopharyngeal Pneumococcal Colonization among Children after Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine Introduction

World Health Organization has recommended all countries to introduction of Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine (PCV) in routine immunization schedule, especially those countries with higher rate of mortality in children. However, Islamic Republic of Iran and more than 50 other countries including Algeria, Antigua and Barbuda, Belarus, Belize, Bhutan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brunei Darussalam, Cabo V...

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing: relevant but underused.

Cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPX) is a relatively old technology, but has sustained relevance for many primary care clinical scenarios in which it is, ironically, rarely considered. Advancing computer technology has made CPX easier to administer and interpret at a time when our aging population is more prone to comorbidities and higher prevalence of nonspecific symptoms of exercise intoler...