In September 2022, the Federal Communications Commission adopted a new rule changing deorbiting timeframe for satellites ending their missions in low Earth orbit from twenty-five-year recommendation to five-year legal requirement. The adoption of this rule, which seeks cultivate sustainable orbital environment satellites, followed United States’ July 2022 National Orbital Debris Implementation ...

JOHN D. FRENCH, DONALD B. LINDSLEY, and H. W. MAGOUN, An American contribution to neuroscience: the Brain Research Institute, UCLA, 1959-1984, Los Angeles, University of California Brain Research Institute: UCLA Publication Service Department, 1984, 8vo, pp. vii, 325, illus., $37.50. California is the home of many remarkable institutions, and after only twenty-five years in existence the Brain ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association of a three-tier pharmacy benefit plan with prescription drug spending and utilization, employee health status, and short-term disability (STD) absences in a large financial services corporation. METHODS Retrospective observational study of approximately 17,000 employees enrolled in the company's pharmacy benefit plan in anyone year from 2000 to 2004. Pharm...

PURPOSE To prospectively study the success rates and complications of viscocanalostomy. METHODS Prospective nonrandomized case series of 46 eyes (46 patients) with medically uncontrolled primary and secondary open angle glaucoma. All patients in the study underwent viscocanalostomy. Control of intraocular pressure was used to measure success. Pre and postoperative glaucoma medications, visual...

We reviewed 286 consecutive patients with a fracture of a pubic ramus. The overall incidence was 6.9/100 000/year in the total population and 25.6/100 000/year in individuals aged over 60 years. The mean age of the patients was 74.7 years and 24.5% suffered from dementia. Women were affected 4.2 times more often than men. After injury, geriatric rehabilitation was frequently required and althou...

Aim: To prospectively study the success rate and complications of viscocanalostomy, a non-penetrating glaucoma surgery. Methods: Prospective non-randomised consecutive case series of 57 eyes (57 patients) with medically uncontrolled primary and secondary open angle glaucoma. Viscocanalostomy was performed on all participants with injection of viscoelastic in the surgically created ostia of Schl...