“Too Much Debt Will Kill You”: Although Not in Central Europe, Yet

Are you undercoding too much?

Dr. Jensen is board certified in internal medicine and nephrology. In addition to being a practicing nephrologist with Gulf Coast Kidney Associates, Sarasota, Fla, he is a certified professional coder (CPC) and works as a physician reimbursement consultant. He offers remote and onsite workshops and seminars designed to teach physicians how to apply the evaluation and management guidelines in da...

Not too much and not too little.

The structure and function of any protein is determined by its amino acid sequence. Thus, the substitution of one amino acid for another can alter the activity of a protein or its function. Mutations—or rather, polymorphism, once they become fixed in the population—can be deleterious, such that the altered protein is no longer able to fulfil its role with potentially devastating effects on the ...

Too Much R&D Although Polluters Underestimate Environmental Harm?

This paper shows that polluters who underestimate environmental harm might invest excessively in promoting technological change in pollution control under environmental liability law. Neither strict liability nor negligence can prevent such a distortion. However, we define a second best due care standard under negligence that induces a welfare superior R&D equilibrium. If, on the other hand, po...

Will your safety harness kill you?

JAK2V617F: you can't have too much.

In this issue of Blood, Tiedt and colleagues use transgenic and retroviral models to demonstrate that the expression level of JAK2V617F plays an important role in determining myeloproliferative disease (MPD) phenotype.