The prevention and control of diabetes is a major public health priority for the US Territory of Guam. As part of a strategic planning process, a survey of diabetes patients was conducted to determine patients' perceptions of the availability and adequacy of preventive and clinical services to control diabetes. A total of 125 survey questionnaires were distributed to diabetes patients attending...

We reviewed patient records with a first-listed diagnosis of urolithiasis-also known as urinary tract or kidney stone disease, nephrolithiasis-upon discharge from Guam's sole civilian hospital during 2006 to 2010 and urinary cancer mortality records from the Guam Cancer Registry for 1970 to 2009 to determine the source of municipal water supplied to the patients' residence. The objective was to...

Although polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) were only commercially manufactured for about 50 years, their unusual versatility for certain purposes coupled with widespread use and improper disposal have resulted in global contamination (Hutzinger et al., 1974; Atlas et al., 1986). PCBs can enter the marine environment from leakages, urban runoff, dumped sewage sludge and industrial discharges (Con...

PROBLEM/CONDITION Since the first U.S. infant conceived with Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) was born in 1981, both the use of advanced technologies to overcome infertility and the number of fertility clinics providing ART services have increased steadily in the United States. ART includes fertility treatments in which both eggs and sperm are handled in the laboratory (i.e., in vitro fer...

News and Notes American Anthropological Association: William A. Lessa . . 318 Technical Papers Eocene Foraminifera from Guam, and their Implications: Preston E. Cloud, Jr., and W. Storrs Cole . . . _323 Audiogenic Seizure and the Adrenal Cortex: WWm. P. Hurder and A. F. Sanders _... ...-......324 Nutritive Value of Rust-infected Leaves: C. E. Yarwood, Alice P. Hall, and Marjorie M. Nelson . 326...

The identity of Chiromantes obtusifrons (Dana, 1851), previously considered widespread in the tropical West Pacific region to the eastern Indian Ocean, is revised and found to be a species-complex. Chiromantes obtusifrons is now considered endemic to the Hawaiian Is., and four new species are described from Guam, Taiwan and Christmas Island. Two species live sympatrically in Taiwan. Species sep...

Investigation of an extract from the marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya semiplena, collected in Tumon Bay, Guam, led to the identification of three new cyclodepsipeptides, lyngbyastatins 8-10 (1-3). The structures of 1-3 were determined by NMR, MS, ESIMS fragmentation and chemical degradation. Compounds 1-3 are closely related to lyngbyastatins 4-7. Like the latter compounds, we found 1-3 to inhibit...