The Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc conference titled "State of Childhood Asthma and Future Directions: Strategies for Implementing Best Practices" was held December 13 to 14, 2006. Here we summarize the presentations and recommendations for systems approaches from that conference and discuss current asthma care.

H. Tang, E. X. Wu, J. R. Vasselli Imaging, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway, NJ, United States, Radiology, Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons, New York, NY, United States, Electrical & Electronic Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China, People's Republic of, Obesity Research Center, St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital, Columbia University, New York, NY, Uni...

In April, the Merck Genome Research Institute and the National Cancer Institute's Cancer Genome Anatomy Project, both supporters of functional genomics technology development and research, brought together a group of 27 scientists working at the forefront of this new field. Here we report on the presentations, discussions, and outcomes from this highly interactive and stimulating meeting held a...

Kristian K. Jensen,* Stephen F. Previs,* Lei Zhu, Kithsiri Herath, Sheng-Ping Wang, Gowri Bhat, Guanghui Hu, Paul L. Miller, David G. McLaren, Myung K. Shin, Thomas F. Vogt, Liangsu Wang, Kenny K. Wong, Thomas P. Roddy, Douglas G. Johns, and Brian K. Hubbard Departments of Atherosclerosis, Exploratory and Translational Sciences, and Informatics and Analysis, Merck Research Laboratories, Rahway,...

JANE H. CRAWFORD, JOHN F. WOOTTON, GUY R. SEABROOK, AND RODERICK H. SCOTT Merck Sharp and Dohme, Neuroscience Research Centre, Harlow, Essex CM20 2QR, United Kingdom; Department of Physiology, College of Veterinary Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853-601; and Department of Biomedical Sciences, Institute of Medical Sciences, University of Aberdeen, Foresterhill, Aberdeen AB25 2Z...

In December 2006, the Merck Childhood Asthma Network, Inc convened a conference, "State of Childhood Asthma and Future Directions: Strategies for Implementing Best Practices." In this article, we present an overview of the conference. The other articles in this supplement were based on the conference proceedings.

This Academic Proceedings Supplement to The Journal of Clinical Psychiatry presents the highlights of the planning roundtable teleconference “Understanding the Sleep-Wake Cycle: Sleep, Insomnia, and the Orexin System,” which was held on May 24, 2013. This report was prepared and independently developed by the CME Institute of Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc., and was supported by an educatio...

In the article cited above, the duality of interest for author Emily B. Schroeder reads “E.B.S. received industry-sponsored research support from Novartis, Merck Sharpe & Dohme, Boehringer Ingelheim, AstraZeneca, andBristol-Myers Squibb.” The author has requested that this be corrected to read “E.B.S. was supported by National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases grant K23DK0...

General procedures. All reactions were carried out under an inert nitrogen atmosphere with dry solvents under anhydrous conditions unless otherwise stated. Dry tetrahydrofuran (THF), toluene, benzene, dichloromethane (CH2Cl2), methanol (MeOH), N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF), and triethylamine (Et3N) were obtained by passing these previously degassed solvents through activated alumina columns. Reag...

of Southern Nevada. Treatment was considered empiric when antibiotic was given prior to culture results. Escalation was the additional of an aminoglycoside or colistin after the start of C/T. Results. There were 30 patients in the study. Average age was 57 (SD = 16) and most 19 (63%) were male, Caucasian 22 (73%) and were admitted from the community or home 18 (60%). The most frequent comorbidi...