This article provides an overview of solid organ transplantation in the United States and is produced as part of the 2007 OPTN/SRTR Annual Report. The Annual Report is prepared by the Scientific Registry of Transplant Recipients (SRTR) in collaboration with the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network (OPTN) under contract with the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). The r...

Only physicians experienced in management of systemic immunosuppressive therapy for the indicated disease should prescribe Cyclosporine Capsules USP (Modified). At doses used in solid organ transplantation, only physicians experienced in immunosuppressive therapy and management of organ transplant recipients should prescribe Cyclosporine Capsules USP (Modified). Patients receiving the drug shou...

Waste sorts were conducted during each of the four quarters (or seasons) of 1996 at the City of Columbia Sanitary Landfill. A detailed physical sampling protocol was outlined. Weight fractions of 32 waste components were quantified from all geographic areas that contribute to the Columbia Sanitary Landfill using a two-way stratification method, which accounted for variations in geographical reg...

The fate and behaviour of two groups of endocrine disrupting chemicals, steroid estrogens and nonylphenol ethoxylates, have been evaluated during the anaerobic digestion of primary and mixed sewage sludge under mesophilic and thermophilic conditions. Digestion occurred over six retention times, in laboratory scale reactors, treating sludges collected from a sewage treatment works in the United ...

The U.S. per-capita figure for garbage production has topped four pounds per person per day, and that amount is rising at roughly 5% per year. In the past, municipal solid waste was sent to the nearest local landfill or incinerator. But in 1988, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency instituted the first federal standards for landfills, designed to make them safer. Over 10,000 small municipal...

L. Szunyogh,I.* B. Lazarovits,I.2 L. Udvardi, I 1. Jackson,3 and U. Nowak4 'Department of Theoretical Physics. Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Budafoki ut 8. Hllll Budapest. Hungary 2Research Institute for Solid State Physics and Optics. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. P.O. Box 49. H-1525 Budapest. Hungary 3Department of Physics. University of York. York YOJO 5DD. United Kingdom...

Although there are a myriad of sources of municipal solid waste (MSW) data in the United States, much of these data are not transparent and are also extremely difficult to find. In addition, the two major methods of quantifying national MSW flows-the BioCycle State of Garbage in America and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)/Franklin Associates' MSW "Facts and Figures" report-differ...

D. Sun,1 A. W. Rost,2,3,4 R. S. Perry,5 A. P. Mackenzie,1,4 and M. Brando1 1Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, D-01187 Dresden, Germany 2Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany 3Institute for Functional Matter and Quantum Technologies, University of Stuttgart, Pfaffenwaldring 57, D-70569 Stuttgart, Germany 4Scottish Universities Physics Allian...