In this issue, Walton, Orenstein, and Pickering provide a useul summary of the 50-year history of the Advisory Committee n Immunization Practices (ACIP). When the ACIP was formed in 964, immunization recommendations for children were primarily eveloped by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), with the merican Public Health Association and other professional organiations also providing recom...

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Synopsis The Medicare program must contend with serious challenges as it enters its 50th anniversary year, including rising expenditures, a fragmented, confusing benefit structure, and inadequate financial protections for some low-income beneficiaries and high users of services. In part 2 of their report, David Blumenthal, M.D., Karen Davis, and Stuart Guterman examine these challenges and disc...

We describe how a powerful new “constraint method” yields many different extensions of the topological version of Tverberg’s 1966 Theorem in the prime power case— and how the same method also was instrumental in the recent spectacular construction of counterexamples for the general

By bringing together individuals with complementary expertise, interests, and ideals, medical societies realize shared goals and ultimately improve care for people worldwide. For the past 50 years, the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) has achieved these objectives and accomplished its initial mission of advancing the science of nephrology. In the process, the ASN has grown to become the lar...

Marine algal community signifies a huge source of compound endowed with ingenious structure and potential biological activities. Cytotoxicity of plant or fungal material is considered as the presence of antitumor compounds. In this study, ethanol extracts of seaweeds Dictyota dichotoma var. velutricata, D. hauckiana, D. indica, Iyengaria stellata, Jolyna laminarioides, Melanothamnus afaqhusaini...

Article history: Received on: 11/10/2013 Revised on: 07/12/2013 Accepted on: 22/12/2013 Available online: 30/12/2013 Ethanolic extracts of three medicinal plants collected from South India were analyzed for their activity towards acetylcholinestrase (AChE) enzyme. The AChE inhibition was measured spectrophotometrically. All the three species namely, Baliospermum montanum, Humboldtia brunonis Wa...