From the Department of Medicine (G.A.A., D.J.K., N.A.R.) and Tobacco Research and Treatment Center (N.A.R.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; and Division of General Internal Medicine (J.T.H.), Division of Biostatistics (P.A.D.), Division of Medical Oncology (G.A.C.), and Nicotine Dependence Center (J.T.H., G.A.C.), Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester...

This article synthesizes the discussions and conclusions of a 2007 symposium on innovations in health care delivery and economics sponsored by Mayo Clinic’s Department of Internal Medicine, Rochester, Minn. “Transformation: A Symposium on Innovative Health Care Delivery,” communicated what current innovations in health care delivery look like, what the frontiers of innovation seem to be, and wh...

The Human Connectome Project consortium led by Washington University, University of Minnesota, and Oxford University is undertaking a systematic effort to map macroscopic human brain circuits and their relationship to behavior in a large population of healthy adults. This overview article focuses on progress made during the first half of the 5-year project in refining the methods for data acqui...

OBJECTIVE To examine the contribution of cerebrovascular disease to dementia. METHODS We used the records-linkage system of the Rochester Epidemiology Project to ascertain incident cases of dementia in Rochester, Minn, for 1985 through 1989. We defined dementia using the criteria of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition. To define dementia types, we reviewe...

Title:Hypoxia, blood flow and metabolism in squamous-cell carcinoma of the head and neck: correlations between multiple immunohistochemical parameters and PET Authors: Tove J Gronroos ([email protected]) Kaisa Lehtio ([email protected]) Karl-Ove Soderstrom ([email protected]) Pauliina Kronqvist ([email protected]) Jukka Laine ([email protected]) Olli Eskola ([email protected]) Tapio Viljanen (tapio.vilja...

52 Utilizing Social Insect-Based Communities for Routing in Network-based Sensor Systems; Li-Minn Ang, School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia Kah Phooi Seng, School of Computing and Mathematics, Charles Sturt University, Bathurst, Australia Adamu Murtala Zungeru, Department of Electrical, Computer and Telecommunications Engineering, Botswana Internati...

This article was submitted to HR by Douglas L. Beck, AuD, director of professional relations at Oticon Inc, Somerset, NJ; David P. Speidel, MS, director of audiology services, and Michelle Petrak, PhD, audiologist and product manager at Interacoustics, Eden Prairie, Minn. Correspondence can be addressed to [email protected] or Douglas Beck at Oticon Inc, 29 Schoolhouse Road, Somerset, NJ...

From Gordon Binder Weiss Vision Institute, San Diego, Calif (Binder); Minnesota Eye Consultants, Minneapolis, Minn (Lindstrom); Emory University, Atlanta, Ga (Stulting); Ophthalmic Consultants of Long Island, Rockville Centre, NY (Donnenfeld); Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston, Mass (Wu); Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Md (McDon...

From the Breast Diagnostic Clinic, Division of General Internal Medicine (S.P.), Department of Radiology (K.R.B.), Department of Surgery (A.C.D.), Department of Oncology (M.P.G., G.K.D., J.N.I.), Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (C.A.R.), and Department of Radiation Oncology (P.J.S.), Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn; and Division of Hematology/Oncology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Fl...

We evaluated stool specimens known to contain or be free of Campylobacter by traditional culture, using the ProSpecT Campylobacter microplate assay (Alexon-Trend, Ramsey, Minn.). This rapid enzyme immunoassay for the detection of Campylobacter-specific antigens demonstrated 96% sensitivity and 99% specificity and is an acceptable alternative method of Campylobacter detection.