CONTRIBUTIONS to the unemployment trust fund on 1945 wages are estimated at $1.05 billion, 1 or about 1 1 percent below the previous year's total of $1.17 billion. Although the end of the war in August 1945 caused taxable wages for 1945 to decline from *Prepared in the Program Division, Bureau of Employment Security. 1 Except for the discussion on page 16, the effect of war-risk provisions (inc...

Change in the area of premalignant lesions is an end point in estimating the efficacy of chemopreventive agents. When examiners round measurements of lesion length and width, they introduce variability, which perturbs the relative percent change in lesion area and, consequently, the percent of subjects showing a clinical response. We use simulations to illustrate the resulting bias when the age...

Mortality in the early phase of acute myocardial infarction occurs both during the pre-hospital period and after admission to the Coronary Care Unit. This report is an analysis of deaths that occurred in the Coronary Care Unit within a 3 year period. Forty percent of 304 patients (13 percent) unth. acute myocardial infarction died in the Coronary Care Unit, Fifty percent of the deaths were due ...

INTRODUCTION The HpOne test is a new five-minute rapid urease test developed for the rapid detection of Helicobacter pylori infection during gastroscopy. However, evidence in the literature supporting its use clinically is scarce. The most commonly used rapid urease test remains the Campylobacter-like organism (CLO) test, which generates accurate readings only after 24 hours. The aim of this st...

Early bacterial pulmonary infections within 2 weeks after lung transplantation were studied in 29 patients undergoing surgery between December 1989 and May 1992. Suspected pulmonary infections occurred in 11 patients (38 percent). The most common bacterial organisms isolated were Klebsiella pneumoniae (45 percent; 5/11), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (36 percent; 4/11), Escherichia coli (27 percent; 3...

BACKGROUND We evaluated symptoms and self-assessments of quality of life in men with localized prostate cancer who participated in a randomized comparison between radical prostatectomy and watchful waiting. METHODS Between 1989 and 1999, a group of Swedish urologists randomly assigned men with localized prostate cancer to radical prostatectomy or watchful waiting. In this follow-up study, we ...

O ver the past 45 years, the United States has experienced a rising standard of living, with real GDP per capita more than doubling between 1959 and 2004. In contrast, living standards among some groups seem to have stagnated. The nonelderly poverty rate declined from 1959–1969, but then rose from 10.7 percent in 1970 to 12.7 percent in 1980 and remained at 12.8 percent in 2003. Figure 1 illust...

OBJECTIVE To identify the number of people in the United States with untreated serious mental illness (SMI) and the reasons for their lack of treatment. DATA SOURCE/STUDY DESIGN The National Comorbidity Survey; cross-sectional, nationally representative household survey. DATA COLLECTION An operationalization of the SMI definition set forth in the Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Admin...

The present study compared the dosimetry of intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) and three-dimensional conformal radiation therapy (3D-CRT) techniques in patients treated for high-grade glioma. A total of 20 patients underwent computed tomography treatment planning in conjunction with magnetic resonance imaging fusion. Prescription dose and normal-tissue constraints were identical for t...

CONTEXT Gender assignment followed by surgery and hormonal therapy is a difficult decision in the management of 45,X/46,XY patients with abnormal external genitalia at birth considering the paucity of studies evaluating pubertal development and fertility outcome, most notably for patients raised as boys. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to describe the pubertal course of 20 45,X/46,XY ...