The organ trafficking market is on the rise worldwide. Numerous unfortunate stories of networks of brokers, physicians, and hospitals engaged in illegal trade have been featured in high-profile media. The profitable enterprises facilitating these unregulated services exploit the poor in underresourced countries and offer substandard medical care with unacceptable outcomes to the rich recipients...

INTRODUCTION In January 2010, the Virginia Department of Health received reports of 2 hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections (1 acute, 1 chronic) among residents of a single assisted living facility (ALF). Both infected residents had diabetes and received assisted monitoring of blood glucose (AMBG) at the facility. An investigation was initiated in response. OBJECTIVE To determine the extent and ...

Abstract Under the condition of complex waters, long-term action a vessel-generated wave makes anti-collision facilities have risk structural failure. Taking Yinzhou lake bridge pier structure as research object, extreme load is calculated, and strength floating facility under analyzed using direct calculation method. The results indicate that ultimate overall meets design requirements, but the...

heart failure is common in patients with chronic renal disease, either as a complication of renal failure or from shared risk factors, or is the major cause of death in patients on dialysis. at present, end stage renal disease (esrd) patients who have systolic heart failure are considered high-risk for surgery; and nephrologists and cardiologists are reluctant to refer these patients for kidney...

-The single facility minisum location problem requires finding a point in ~N that minimizes a sum of weighted distances to m given points. The distance measure is typically assumed in the literature to be either Euclidean or rectangular, or the more general Ip norm. Global convergence of a well-known iterative solution method named the Weiszfeld procedure has been proven under the proviso that ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the potential contribution of unmeasured general health status to patient selection in assessments of the clinical effectiveness of implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) therapy. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING Linked data from an ICD registry, heart failure registry, and Medicare claims data for ICDs implanted in 2005 through 2009. PARTICIPANTS 29,42...

The worldwide incidence of kidney failure is on the rise and treatment is costly; thus, the global burden of illness is growing. Kidney failure patients require either a kidney transplant or dialysis to maintain life. This review focuses on the economics of dialysis. Alternative dialysis modalities are haemodialysis (HD) and peritoneal dialysis (PD). Important economic factors influencing dialy...

competitive facility location focus on locating facilities by considering the fact of competition in businesses, so every facilities try to reach their reachable shares through competition. reachable shares have an indirect relation with the distance of facilities to the customer and a direct relation with the attractiveness of the facility. attractiveness of any facility is depend on variety o...

a facility location is said to be competitive when other facilities are present in the market and new facilities have to compete with these existing facilities for a market share. in other words, in a competitive facility location problem we do not see monopoly that exists in classic location models. in such a situation, existing facilities react to locate new facilities by adjusting their attr...

― ― S28 ― Use of common marmosets has been a marked increase in neuroscience and infectious disease research programs. There are often differences from facility to facility in the frequency of distinct entities, however, diarrhea, pulmonary involvement and kidney failure are the major disorders in captive marmoset colony. The poor physical condition of the highest frequency is diarrhea, which i...