IMPORTANCE The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) allowed young adults to remain on their parents' insurance until 26 years of age. Reports indicate that this has expanded health coverage. OBJECTIVE To evaluate coverage, access to care, and health care use among 19- to 25-year-olds compared with 26- to 34-year-olds following PPACA implementation. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICI...

Young doctors give their own healthcare a low priority. They feel great pressure not to miss shifts due to ill-health — as if this were not a valid reason. They have to be sure they are really sick enough before they would consider asking for help. This attitude to healthcare means that it is even more difficult for young doctors to seek help for a stress-related illness, a mental health issue ...

M a y / J u n e 2 0 0 7 I E E E S O F T W A R E 1 1 3 X ML today routinely helps businesses and governments write applications and do Web-based tasks that were beyond most people’s imaginations back in 1999, when the inklings of an open standard called Universal Business Language first appeared. Crafted by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards, UBL provides a ...

In 1746, Dr. Pierre Fauchard wrote: " Those who are diligent on the conservation of their teeth and who wish to avoid being the victim of their error or their negligence ought to have them examined two or three times every year by an experienced dentist. " This long-established assumption on dental recall has been challenged. According to Dr. Derek Richards, editor of Evidence-based dentistry, ...

Increased carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in individuals without hypertension might indicate other factors promoting the atherosclerotic process that are often simultaneously clustered in individuals. The present study tested the hypothesis that carotid IMT predicts new onset of hypertension in the normotensive subjects.A total of 867 participants were enrolled from our yearly physical che...

PURPOSE A correlation between carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT) and blood cells has not been well documented. Studies of a possible relationship between blood cell components and left (Lt) and right (Rt) side CIMT in asymptomatic men and women in Taiwan have not been conducted previously. The study aims to correlate factors of complete blood cells (CBC) to CIMT for men and women. METHODS ...

AIMS/INTRODUCTION Muscle strength training has been suggested to improve glucose metabolism; however, epidemiological evidence regarding strength training's effects on diabetes risk is scarce. We prospectively examined the association between strength training and the risk of type 2 diabetes in Japanese men and women. MATERIALS AND METHODS The sample included health checkups on 26,630 Japanes...