Poisoning due to organophosphate pesticides is an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Although standard treatments involving the administration of atropine and oximes have been used, there remain many controversial areas concerning organophosphate poisoning (OPP). Herein, we present our 10 years of experience in assessing the severity of OPP in southern Taiwan. A retrospective...

Alkylphospholipids have shown promising results in several clinical studies (Mollinedo 2007) and among them Perifosine (octadecyl(1,1-di-methyl-4-piperidinium-4-yl)phosphate, OPP), and miltefosine (hexadecylphosphatidylcholine (HPC)) seems to be most promising for breast cancer therapy (Fichtner, Zeisig et al. 1994). For this type of tumor, an antitumor effect was found only for hormone recepto...

OBJECTIVE Analyze differences in Medicare Fee-for-Service utilization (i.e., program payments) by beneficiary characteristics, such as gender, age, and prevalence of chronic conditions. METHODS Using the 2008 and 2010 Chronic Conditions Public Use Files, we conduct a descriptive analysis of enrollment and program payments by gender, age categories, and eleven chronic conditions. RESULTS We ...

The supplemental security income programfinanced by general revenues-replaces the Federal grants to State-administered assistance programs for the aged (old-age assistance-OAA), the blind (aid to the blind-AB), and the disabled (aid to the permanently and totally disabled-APTD) .2 The State-administered program currently serves about 3.2 million persons, of whom 1.9 million are aged. The additi...

BACKGROUND/AIM Plant phenolics can inhibit, retard or reverse carcinogenesis, and may thus help prevent or treat cancer. Oil palm phenolics (OPP) previously showed anti-tumour activities in vivo via a cytostatic mechanism at 1,500 ppm gallic acid equivalent. Here, we report other possible molecular mechanisms by which this extract attenuates cancer, especially those concerning the immune respon...

BACKGROUND Medicare managed care enrollees who disenroll to fee-for-service (FFS) historically have worse health and higher costs than continuing enrollees and beneficiaries remaining in FFS. OBJECTIVE To examine disenrollment patterns by analyzing Medicare payments following disenrollment from Medicare Advantage (MA) to FFS in 2007. Recent growth in the MA program, introduction of limits on ...

By the end of 1980, the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program was making monthly cash assistance payments, averaging $170, to almost 4.2 million aged, blind, and disabled persons. When SSI payments began in January 1974, the number of recipients was 3.2 million and the average payment was $117. Since 1975, both SSI payments and Social Security benefits have been automatically adjusted each...

Maize with opposite phyllotaxy (OP) and also initiating ears in opposite pairs is an aberrant mutant and also precious material for maize breeding and plant evolution studies. Mapping and identifying the markers closely linked to genes for the OP trait are essential for cloning the gene and marker-assisted selection in breeding. We established H14D, a near-isogenic line of the OP trait wit...

The innovations or observation minus forecast (O–F) residuals produced by a data assimilation system provide a convenient metric of evaluating global analyses. In this study, O–F statistics from the Global Ozone Assimilation Testing System (GOATS) are used to examine how ozone assimilation products and their associated O–F statistics depend on input data biases and ozone photochemistry paramete...