BACKGROUND Among patients with fever and neutropenia during chemotherapy for cancer who have a low risk of complications, oral administration of empirical broad-spectrum antibiotics may be an acceptable alternative to intravenous treatment. METHODS We conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of patients (age, 5 to 74 years) who had fever and neutropenia during chemothera...

BACKGROUND Accidental falls in older people are a major public health problem but a relatively limited number of studies have analyzed the mortality trends from this cause. Effective public health interventions have been found to prevent the incidence of falls and their complications. Therefore, characterizing the mortality trends of falls for different subpopulations can help to identify their...

INTRODUCTION Injuries and fatalities in adult drivers 18-65 years of age have decreased in recent years due to safer vehicles, enhanced medical policies, and implementation of injury prevention policies. However, adult drivers over 65 years of age are continuing to suffer from motor vehicle collision-related injuries and fatalities at a more constant rate. A number of physiological factors cont...

A 4.7 percent surgery rate to correct urine loss conditions was found by a large scale survey of sixty-year and older non-institutionalized women in a Michigan county. The initial postoperative results reported by the respondents were 74 percent complete continence and 23 percent partial relief. The long-term self-reported outcomes (two years or more post-surgery) were an absolute continence ra...

AIM The aim of this study was to assess and compare the quantitative and qualitative oral colonization of Candida species between a group of healthy tobacco smokers and a comparable group of nonsmokers, and to investigate a possible correlation between oral candidal colonization and the quantity or duration of the smoking habit. METHODS AND MATERIALS Fifty smokers and 50 nonsmokers were inclu...

Under 5 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84 6.6 5 to 9 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 5.7 10 to 14 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 7.3 15 to 19 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 7.3 20 to 24 years . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

million); Ohio, Illinois, Michigan, and New Jersey each had well over 1 million. The 65 or older population was slightly less likely to live in metropolitan areas in 1999 than younger persons. About 50 percent of older persons lived in the suburbs, 27 percent live in central cities, and 23 percent lived in nonmetropolitan areas.2 Living arrangements of America’s older adults are closely linked ...