Alan J. Garber, MD, PhD, FACE; Martin J. Abrahamson, MD; Joshua I. Barzilay, MD, FACE; Lawrence Blonde, MD, FACP, FACE; Zachary T. Bloomgarden, MD, MACE; Michael A. Bush, MD; Samuel Dagogo-Jack, MD, FACE; Michael B. Davidson, DO, FACE; Daniel Einhorn, MD, FACP, FACE; W. Timothy Garvey, MD; George Grunberger, MD, FACP, FACE; Yehuda Handelsman, MD, FACP, FACE, FNLA; Irl B. Hirsch, MD; Paul S. Jel...

Ms. Habtegiris had little money and no health insurance. On Dec. 1, hospital authorities notified her brother that unless another hospital could be found to treat his sister, Baylor would be forced to discontinue care after 10 days. But even with Baylor's assistance, the family was unable to find a willing hospital. True to its word, Baylor disconnected her ventilator on Dec. 12, invoking a law...

Rape and sexual assault are violent crimes that exact severe and lasting emotional and functional tolls. Our society is currently grappling with the pervasiveness of sexual assault in our communities and the development of both preventive interventions and post hoc approaches to effective legal redress. Unlike those that occur in community settings, sexual assaults in jails and prisons have lon...

In January 2004, President George W. Bush unveiled plans to send astronauts to the Moon in 2015 and shortly thereafter to Mars. With the prospect of manned exploration of the planets drawing ever closer, the new discipline of Space Medicine is destined to come to the fore. Moreover, investigations of how human beings function under space conditions could provide important new insights into fund...

In this paper we tried to predict what a candidate in a political debate (namely George W. Bush) is going to say, based on what the moderator and the other candidate just said. In order to achieve that, we first used PCA to reduce the dimensionality of the problem, and then applied several regression models in order to do the actual predictions. While the PCA turned up some interesting patterns...

I n 2007, President George W. Bush signed into law the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act (FDAAA) (121 Stat 962). This Act, by adding subsection (k)(5) to section 505 (21 USC §355), directed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to “conduct regular, bi-weekly screening of the Adverse Event Reporting System [AERS] database and post a quarterly report on the AERS Website of any new safe...