Following the footsteps of most other states, Massachusetts opened its Office of Patient Protection in January 2001. Established under what the media hailed as a “landmark” patients’ bill of rights, the Massachusetts legislature created a state agency empowered to review medical decisions made by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that are challenged by patients. However, after opening its...

THISARTICLE TRACES THE VALUE AND USE of the Library Bill of Rights in school library media settings through an examination of national library media collection development texts, intellectual freedom publicaconcludes that inrealizing that the Library Bill of Rights is for support and guidance. INTRODUCTION Gordon Baldwin, in this issue of Library Trends, examines the Library Bill of Rights from...

The World Psychiatric Association (WPA), a global organization representing nearly 250 000 psychiatrists, urges ALL Governments to ensure that persons with mental illness/mental disability/mental health problems are not discriminated against based on their mental health status, and are treated as full citizens enjoying all rights on an equal basis with other citizens. The WPA supports the effor...

background:   materials and methods:   results:   six cases (33.3%), followed by the mesiodens, five cases (27.8%). the canines and distomolars three cases (16.6%) each respectively, while the least were the lateral incisors and paramolars of the two cases (11.1%) each. conclusion:   population because 13 cases (72.2%) out of 18 cases had consanguineous parents, while all patients having consan...

approve a crucial $5 million increase in the Bank’s Administrative budget that will enable the Bank to modernize their computer systems and to insert personnel into key markets to help American businesses sell overseas. This modernization is absolutely necessary at this time to ensure that the Bank is Y2K compliant. New systems and personnel will also help the bank reduce turn-around time on de...

Depending on how you look at it, seven years is either a long time or a mere blip on the cosmic clock. In the universe of politics and government agencies and special interest groups, it’s definitely more akin to the latter. And so it is now that, after seven years, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and health care providers across the country are on the verge of an important victory: th...

Price rigidity is the key mechanism for propagating business cycles in traditional Keynesian theory. Yet the New Keynesian literature has failed to show that sticky prices by themselves can e¤ectively propagate business cycles in general equilibrium. We show that price rigidity in fact can (by itself) give rise to a strong propagation mechanism of the business cycle in standard New Keynesian mo...