BACKGROUND Antibiotics are among the most widely prescribed medications. The geographic variation in antibiotic prescribing patterns and associated costs among Medicare Part D recipients have not been described. The purpose of this study was to assess the regional variation in antibiotic prescriptions and costs among Medicare Part D enrollees in 2013. METHODS Retrospective cohort review of al...

OBJECTIVES/PURPOSE To review Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) labelling claims achieved in oncology in Europe and in the United States and consider the benefits, and challenges faced. METHODS PROLabels database was searched to identify oncology products with PRO labelling approved in Europe since 1995 or in the United States since 1998. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European...

adopting a unilateral policy, the united states attacked iraq without permission from the united nations' security council in march 2003. the first intervention of the united states took place in iraq in 1991 with permission from the security council, accompanied by a coalition of the us allies. as a result of this military intervention, the united states managed to liberate kuwait at that...

Between the years 1855 and 1863, the opinions or breportsQ of the United States Court of Claims were delivered to the House of Representatives for final consideration. In total, 296 cases were conveyed, but in the process, Report 42 was lost and, according to indexes of such documents, bnever received by [the] House.Q This article cites examined records of the Court of Claims, from both the Uni...

Sir, Physicians who write medico-legal reports to document torture may be called to present evidence at immigration tribunals. In the United Kingdom such attendance is uncommon and, perhaps for this reason, training in this skill is often limited. Practical aspects of attendance at immigration tribunals as a medical witness are outlined here, based upon the author’s experience. The client’s law...

The cyclical economic downturn in the United States has forced many Extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. The Cooperative Extension System (CES), the organization primarily responsible for governmental Extension work in the United States, at Iowa State University responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...

The United States has granted immunity against legal claims related to the manufacture, testing, development, distribution, and administration of three vaccines for Ebola virus disease, said Sylvia M Burwell, US Health and Human Services secretary, on 9 December. The immunity was issued under the provisions of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness (PREP) Act, a 2005 law designed to fa...

In Wyeth v. Levine, decided in March, 2009, the United States Supreme Court concluded that the plaintiff's failure to warn claim against the makers of the drug Phenergan was not impliedly preempted by the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. In doing so, the Court rejected the argument of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) that tort claims of this nature stand as an obstacle to federal regulat...

the cyclical economic downturn in the united states has forced many extension administrators to rethink and adjust services and programming. the cooperative extension system (ces), the organization primarily responsible for governmental extension work in the united states, at iowa state university responded to this economic downturn by restructuring its organization from county based to a regio...

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer worldwide and the fourth leading cause of cancer death. In the United States it occupies the second place: only lung cancer claims more lives. The prevalence of colorectal cancer amounts to about 1 million in the United States alone [1]. The American Cancer Society estimates that about 112,340 new cases of colon cancer and 41,420 new cases of re...