Chronic instability in the health care environment has raised concerns among providers and patients, especially those who treat and cope with chronic conditions. Changes to existing health care laws are unlikely to alter what have become the primary goals of the US health care system: cost-effectiveness and patient-centricity. To that end, it is vital that patient and physician voices be incorp...

PURPOSE We report 10 years' experience in arthroscopic treatment of pigmented villonodular synovitis (PVNS) of the knee in a series of patients affected by the localized or diffuse form of the disease. The purpose of the study is to critically examine the results of arthroscopic synovectomy in the knee affected by PVNS, to determine the safety and effectiveness of the procedure. TYPE OF STUDY...

We report a case of tonsillar histoplasmosis with hematogenous dissemination in a woman receiving infliximab for Crohn's disease. She also had a history of sarcoidosis. Due to the unusual location and confounding medical history, our case provided a diagnostic dilemma. Histoplasma infection was confirmed histologically, and the patient responded well to appropriate treatment.

The automatic synthesis of programs from their specifications has been a dream of many researchers for decades. If we restrict to open finite-state reactive systems, the specification is often presented as an ATL or LTL formula interpreted over a finite-state game. The required program is then a strategy for winning this game. A theoretically optimal solution to this problem was proposed by Pnu...

Media technologies, including the Internet, cell phones, and video games, offer new avenues to reach Native youth on sensitive health topics. Project Red Talon, a sexually transmitted disease (STD)/HIV prevention project that serves the 43 federally recognized tribes in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho, used community-based participatory research methods in partnership with the Northwest tribes to...

The goal of healthcare networks is to provide global care for patients and to coordinate the actions of the different healthcare professionals to provide the most appropriate treatment based on patient needs. Such networks have been created in Ile-de-France for some neurological diseases but not epilepsy. However, the needs of the population are significant, with 55,000 to 70,000 epilepsy patie...

B RONCHOSPASM, the clinical feature of exacerbated underlying airway hyperreactivity, has the potential to become an anesthetic disaster. During the perioperative period, bronchospasm usually arises during induction of anesthesia but may also be detected at any stage of the anesthetic course. Accordingly, prompt recognition and appropriate treatment are crucial for an uneventful patient outcome...

The Brisbane Southside Public Health Unit, received notifi cation of a case of probable meningococcal septicaemia in a 22-year-old female on the 25th May 2004. Onset of illness was the 23rd May. Symptoms included lethargy, malaise and headache. On presentation, the patient was febrile and hypotensive, with an extensive purpuric rash. The patient responded to appropriate treatment and made a ful...

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 113 I. TWO INTERNET TRAFFIC DISPUTES – THOUGHTS ON SCOPE ..... 116 II. CURRENT (POSSIBLE) LEGAL BACKGROUND RULES ................. 119 III. TENTATIVE STEPS FORWARD ..................................................... 126 a. What An Interconnection Requirement Might Provide ...... 126 b. Who Must ...