The work by He et al. (1) expressed concern that human albumin derived from plasma fractionation is associated with “an increasing public health concern with plasma-derived HAS with its potential risk for transmission of infectious pathogens such as hepatitis and HIV” (1). The work by He et al. (1) offered two references to support this statement, one of which included the unequivocal statement...

The Reference Model of Open Distributed Processing (RM-ODP) is an emerging ISO/ITU-T standard. It provides a framework of abstractions based on viewpoints, and it defines five viewpoint languages to model open distributed systems. This paper uses the viewpoint languages to specify multiparty audio/video exchange in distributed systems. To the designers of distributed systems, it shows how the c...

PREMATURE INFANTS. By Ethel C. Dunham. Children's Bureau Publication No. 325 Federal Security Administration, Washington, 1948. x + 401 pp. $1.25. This book presents the most complete discussion of prematurity yet published. It can serve adequately as a manual for the practicing physician or as a reference book for the research worker. Dr. Dunham has exhaustively reviewed the literature on almo...

OBJECTIVES Pharmaceutical policies have become paramount in China and other countries of the Asia-Pacific region because of rapidly rising expenditures on drugs. The problems are especially acute in China because expenditures on drugs are typically so large. This article intends to review effects of the policy of drug expenditure containment with primary reference to China, and it proposes some...