REVIEW / ACTA INFORM MED. 2016 FEB; 24(1): 78-79 MARSDEN S. BLOIS (1919–1988) Marsden Scott Blois Jr., was an internationally recognized physician and scientist – professor of Dermatology and professor of Medical information science, visionary in Health Informatics. Scott Blois was Professor and Chairman of the Section on Medical Information Science at the University of California in San Franci...

Using the Solt-Farber hepatocarcinogenesis model, a large population of preneoplastic and neoplastic nodules were induced in male Fischer 344 rats. Total cellular polypeptides from normal liver and individual preneoplastic and neoplastic nodules were analyzed for both qualitative and quantitative changes using computer assisted high resolution two-dimensional electrophoresis. Approximately 800-...

We have demonstrated previously that there is an abnormal expression of sphingomyelin (SM) deacylase in the epidermis of patients with atopic dermatitis (ADe). In the present study, we have prepared N-[palmitic acid-1-(14)C]SM and N-[palmitic acid-1-(14)C]glucosylceramide (GCer) to use as substrates and have quantified SM deacylase activity by detecting the release of [(14)C]palmitic acid in ex...

Change doesn't come without pain, but the suffering caused by medication errors is justifi ca-tion enough to embark on the type of sweeping institutional reforms called for by an Institute of Medicine panel, several experts said. Electronic prescribing, electronic health records, and computerized treatment protocols are indispensable tools for reducing medication errors, according to the IOM re...

Mercaptopurine. L. Lee Bennett, Jr., and Paula W. Allan. 159 Nuclear Pockets Associated with the Nucleolus in Normal and Neoplastic Cells. E. Robert Burns, Bernard L. Soloff, Calvin Hanna, and Donald F. Buxton. 166 The Synergism between Radiation and Estrogen in the Production of Mammary Cancer in the Rat. Albert Segaloff and William S. Maxfield 169 The Effect of L-Asparaginase on Mitotic Activ...

BACKGROUND Children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) as High Risk (HR) patients may be more vulnerable to neurocognitive late effects because of the greater intensity of their therapy. We compared neuropsychological outcomes in children treated for Standard Risk (SR) or HR ALL on Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) Consortium ALL Protocol 95-01. We also evaluated their performance...

Estimating the causal effect of unionization on business survival rates is difficult in the absence of large, representative data on establishments with union status information. It is also confounded by selection bias, because unions may tend to organize at highly profitable enterprises that are more likely to survive. Using new data on more than 27,000 establishments that faced organizing dri...

This paper reconsiders whether cabdrivers’ labor supply decisions reflect reference-dependent preferences. Following Botond Kıszegi and Matthew Rabin (2006), we construct a model with targets for hours as well as income, both determined by rational expectations. Estimating using Henry S. Farber’s (2005, 2008) data, we show that the reference-dependent model can reconcile his 2005 finding that d...

This paper reconsiders whether cabdrivers’ labor supply decisions reflect reference-dependent preferences. Following Botond Kıszegi and Matthew Rabin (2006), we construct a model with targets for hours as well as income, both determined by rational expectations. Estimating using Henry S. Farber’s (2005, 2008) data, we show that the reference-dependent model can reconcile his 2005 finding that d...

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