Cancer charity spending comes under fire

Large quinacrine study comes under fire from family planners.

A large study among 31,781 women, in 24 provinces of Vietnam, who underwent nonsurgical female sterilization via insertion of 2 doses of quinacrine 30 days apart has various flaws, according to many family planning specialists and researchers. The authors of the study based their findings on just 11,686 women and then extrapolated the results to all 31,781 women. Study providers did not follo...

Pharmaceutical Spending and German Reunification: Parity Comes Quickly to Berlin

As the Berlin Wall fell and the population of the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, West Germany) swelled by 25 percent with the addition of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), the health care system struggled to keep pace. This article examines drug outlays by the statutory sickness funds during the first 2 years of unified operations. It shows that providing equivalent ...

Non-profits under fire: The effects of minimal charity care requirements legislation on not-for-profit hospitals.

Smokey comes of age: unmanned aerial systems for fire management

Fire Under Fire: Proton Probabilities at Perihelion

This paper computes the probabilities that the near-Sun flyby mission, Fire, might be bombarded by high energy protons from solar-activity related proton acceleration lying beneath Fire’s perihelion altitude of three solar radii. Although the very largest interplanetary proton events are commonly believed to be caused by interplanetary shocks, this paper assumes the working hypothesis that ther...