I t is almost autumn in Kansas, and the corn continues to grow in some fields. The fall harvest is still a few weeks off. However, the farmers in my area will tell you that what happens now will determine the harvest’s outcome. Physician practices must think in the same way. The ICD-9 updates have been released, making this a good time to review your superbills for needed revisions. Doing this ...

The ninth edition of Gaddum's Pharmacology by A.S.V. Burgen and J.F. Mitchell is a review well-suited to the medical or pharmacology student. This new edition covers the essentials of pharmacology and incorporates recent advances in areas such as the mechanism of drug receptors and neuropharmacological agents. The chapters are very brief and begin with a general description of the class of phar...

IT is a privilege to have been asked to give the sixty-ninth Mary Scott Newbold Lecture. The list of my predecessors is indeed distinguished. The topic, cardiac failure, was chosen because my colleagues and I have been concerned with this problem for almost a quarter of a century. In this lecture I propose to outline my present concepts based on the evolution of thinking which has resulted from...

ion-refinement, 625ACS, 161Adams, B., 662AEOLUS, 570Aguiar, E. de, 398Ahmed, N., 398AIG, 618Ajdin, B., 416Ajwani, D., 112Albrecht, M., 65Albrecht, M., 280, 283, 288Alexa, A., 322Althaus, E., 67, 183, 201, 203, 609Altmann, A., 268Amini, O., 229Analysis of Expression Data, 348Anand, A., 546AND-inverter graph, 618Angelopoulos,...

respect to our microbial communities. The authors do the field a service by making it very clear that there is much to be learned, and that even their published book is not absolute by virtue of being the latest news. In addition, the hand-drawn illustrations are appealing and contribute to perception that far from being immortalized in official, unchangeable textbook figures, the microbiome is...