BACKGROUND Assessing the impact of glioma location on prognosis remains elusive. We approached the problem using multivoxel proton magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (1H-MRSI) to define a tumor "metabolic epicenter", and examined the relationship of metabolic epicenter location to survival and histopathological grade. METHODS We studied 54 consecutive patients with a supratentorial glio...

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Methods Data on NJ hospital emergency room visits were evaluated using two data sources: 1) the EpiCenter syndromic surveillance system of emergency room visits; and 2) the Uniform Bill-Patient Summaries (UB) system containing diagnosis data on all hospital visits. Three years of data (2009-2011) were selected, for the time window of May 1 to September 30. The UB data used for matching with the...

Epigenetics, the study of non-DNA sequence-related heredity, is at the epicenter of modern medicine because it can help to explain the relationship between an individual's genetic background, the environment, aging, and disease. It can do so because the epigenetic state varies among tissues and during a lifetime, whereas the DNA sequence remains essentially the same. As cells adapt to a changin...

The Earthquake of January 26, 2001 of magnitude 7.6 on Richter scale has resulted in more than 25,000 fatalities and wide spread damage in India and SouthEast lower part of Sindh, Pakistan. The Intensity of this earthquake was felt from severe to minor near the epicenter and areas within 400 km radius. It has been reported that severe damage has occurred to mid to high-rise buildings in the cit...

Speaking, listening, reading, and reasoning all depend on common, fundamental aspects of linguistic structure. This common structure is defined by the grammar, and so Bever (1970) calls grammar ‘the epicenter of all language behavior’ in his pioneering study of how grammar and the structures it defines may relate to other cognitive abilities. Computational models with this perspective have beco...

Introduction Real-time emergency department (ED) data are currently received from 78 of 80 New Jersey acute care and satellite EDs by Health Monitoring Systems Inc.’s (HMS) EpiCenter system. EpiCenter collects, manages and analyzes ED registration data for syndromic surveillance, and provides alerts to state and local health departments for surveillance anomalies. After the 2012 Superstorm Sand...

Squamous Cell Carcinoma Change Details of Change Level of Evidence Anatomy—Primary Site(s) Anatomic boundary between esophagus and stomach: tumors involving the esophagogastric junction (EGJ) with epicenter no more than 2 cm into the promixal stomach are staged as esophageal cancers; tumors with epicenter located greater than 2 cm into the proximal stomach are staged as stomach cancers even if ...

BACKGROUND There is growing evidence that specialized clinical services targeted toward individuals early in the course of a psychotic illness may be effective in reducing both the clinical and economic burden associated with these illnesses. Unfortunately, the United States has lagged behind other countries in the delivery of specialized, multi-component care to individuals early in the course...