Guie Dong,* Yu Liu,* Lei Zhang, Shuang Huang, Han-Fei Ding, and Zheng Dong Department of Cellular Biology and Anatomy, Georgia Reagents University and Charlie Norwood Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia; Department of Nephrology, The Second Xiangya Hospital, Central South University, Changsha, Hunan, China; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Georgia Reagents Un...

From the Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center and the Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City (L.N.); the VA Cooperative Studies Program Coordinating Center, Hines, Ill. (A.G.-H., D.R.); the Department of Surgery, University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago (O.J.); the Department of Surgery, Creighton University, Omaha, Nebr. (R.F.); the Institute for Health Services R...

Role of COX-2 in Unilateral Ureteral Obstruction: What Is New? 2 3 4 Tianxin Yang 2 and Chunling Li 5 6 7 Department of Medicine, University of Utah and Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Salt Lake 8 City, Utah, USA; Institute of Hypertension, Zhongshan School of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen 9 University, Guangzhou, China 510080 10 11 12 Address correspondence to: 13 Tianxin Yang, M.D., Ph.D. 14 Univers...

Divisions of aState Government Affairs and iDevelopmental Pediatrics and Preventive Services, American Academy of Pediatrics, Elk Grove Village, Illinois; bDivision of Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics and Center for Children With Special Needs, Floating Hospital for Children, Tufts-New England Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts; cDepartment of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University Health Sci...

3 Running Title: Boronic Acid Inhibitors and SHV 4 5 Jodi M. Thomson, Fabio Prati, Christopher R. Bethel, and Robert A. Bonomo* 6 7 8 Department of Pharmacology, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 9 Cleveland, Ohio; Department of Chemistry, University of Modena, Modena, Italy; 10 Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cleveland, OH 11 12 13 14...

Total joint arthroplasty (TJA) in a homeless patient is generally considered contraindicated. Here, we report our known medical and social (housing and employment) results of homeless veterans who had TJA. Thirty-seven TJAs were performed on 33 homeless patients (31 men) at our hospital between November 2000 and March 2014. This was 1.2% of all TJAs. Average age was 54 years. Average hospital s...

health care systems should assign quality improvement as their main mission. clinical governance (cg) is a key strategy to improve quality of health care services. the iranian ministry of health and medical education (mohme) has promoted cg as a framework for safeguarding quality and safety in all hospitals since 2009. the purpose of this study was to explore perceived facilitators and barriers...