James H. Nichols, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB Director, Point-of-Care Testing and Associate Director, Clinical Chemistry Division Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions Assistant Professor of Pathology Johns Hopkins School of Medicine Corresponding Author: Merwyn Taylor, Ph.D. Johns Hopkins Hospital Department of Pathology Meyer B-125 600 N. Wolfe St. Baltimore, MD 21287-7065 Office # 410-614-5220 Fax # 410...

farm machinery managers often need to make complex economic decisions on machinery replacement. repair and maintenance costs can have significant impacts on this economic decision. the farm manager must be able to predict farm machinery repair and maintenance costs. this study aimed to identify a regression model that can adequately represent the repair and maintenance costs in terms of machine...

Staessen JA, Den Hond E, Celis H, et al for the Treatment of Hypertension Based on Home or Office Blood Pressure (THOP) Trial Investigators. Antihypertensive treatment based on blood pressure measurement at home or in the physician’s office: a randomized controlled trial. JAMA 2004;291:955–64. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...

Emerging Infectious Diseases • www.cdc.gov/eid • Vol. 13, No. 6, June 2007 955 risk for fungal infection related to low doses of steroids is minimal. Active surveillance, as well as analysis of associated risk factors, is required to detect concurrence of severe opportunistic infections in patients treated with TNF antagonists and to identify patients who could benefi t from these therapies wit...

Ghosh SK, Bandyopadhay D. Dermacase: can you identify this condition? Cutaneous larva migrans. Can Fam Physician 2009; 55:489, 491. Heukelback J, Hengge UR. Bed bugs, leeches and hookwarm larvae in the skin. Clin Dermatol 2009;27:285-90. Lesniak R. Cutaneous larva migrans. Dermatol Nurs 2009;20:471-2. Sarasombath PA, Young PK. An unusual presentation of cutaneous larva migrans. Arch Dermatol 20...

An up-to-date checklist of the ground beetles of Iran is presented. Altogether 955 species and subspecies in 155 genera belonging to 26 subfamilies of Carabidae are reported; 25 taxa are recorded for Iran for the fist time. New localities are listed and some previous distributional records are discussed.

BACKGROUND Musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) are an important cause for morbidity in military service. They result in disabilities needing long-term rehabilitation and functional impairment leading to premature discharge from military service. The purpose of the study was to investigate the incidence and nature of MSDs in Finnish conscripts. METHODS Two successive arrivals of 18-28-yr-old male...