A s Robert Kapsis ha.s noted in Hitchcock: The Making of a Reputation, Alfred Hitchcock alway.s courted the press. From the early yeans in England working for Michael Balcon at Ciainsborough to his final years in Hollywood working for Lew Wasserman at Universal, Hitchcock attempted to produce and direct critical response to himself and to his work. One of Hitchcock's favorite screenwriters, Cha...

Because radiology has historically not measured its added value to patient care and thus not communicated it in easily understood terms to all stakeholders, the specialty must correct this to prepare for the eventual transition from the current fee-for-service payment schedule to new value-based reimbursement systems. Given the increasing risk for marginalization, radiologists need to engage cl...

“Something you know,” in the form of passwords, has been the cornerstone of authentication for some time; however the inability to survive replay attack threatens this state of affairs. While “something you know” may always be used in addition to “something you have” we examine whether it can be salvaged as the solo factor for authentication. A recent surge of interest in Challenge Response aut...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate costs and treatment benefits of rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RD) repair. DESIGN A Markov model of cost-effectiveness and utility. PARTICIPANTS There were no participants. METHODS Published clinical trials (index studies) of pneumatic retinopexy (PR), scleral buckling (SB), pars plana vitrectomy (PPV), and laser prophylaxis were used to quantitate surgical manag...

OBJECTIVE To compare the cost-effectiveness of eflornithine and melarsoprol in the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis. METHOD We used data from a Médecins Sans Frontières treatment project in Caxito, Angola to do a formal cost-effectiveness analysis, comparing the efficiency of an eflornithine-based approach with melarsoprol. Endpoints calculated were: cost per death avoided; incremen...