user financial incentives (ufis) have emerged as a powerful tool for health promotion. strong evidence suggests that large enough incentives paid to individuals, conditional on behaviour they can control, encourages more of the desired behaviour. however, such interventions can have unintended consequences for non-targeted behaviours. implementation difficulties that result in individuals not u...

this study was undertaken to determine the antibiotic sensitivity of 686 strains of hemolytic streptococci isolated at the school of public health, divi­sion of streptococcal studies, to five antibiotics in vitro. all of the strains were sensitive to penicillin, erythromycin, chloramphenicol and ampicillin. 27 (4%) of the strains, were resistant to tetracyclin. the clinical implications of this...

It is estimated that, by the year 2000, fifty percent of the population in the United States will be over age sixty. The "baby boomers" will have reached their "golden age." This situation will have far-reaching ramifications for society in general and will also cause the medical profession to evaluate critically its treatment of the elderly. In light of this, Dr. Sculco's text is a timely effo...

These notes are an edited version of notes for the course “Applied Statistics 2010” by Frank van der Meulen. The author of the current version is the sole responsible for the errors it might (and certainly does) contain.

certainly not given to a case reported in the early autumn. According to a local newspaper, a middle-aged couple were evicted from their house by the local housing authority because they had failed to pay rent.

This atlas of vulvar disease (sic) is the result of a collaboration between a gynecologist and a pathologist who benefited from the advice of a colleague, Dr. Ann Church, dermatologist and dermatopathologist. The difficulties inherent to the dialogue between clinicians and pathologists are apparent in that two different classifications of the diseases discussed in the book are given: “one which...

Acid-base disorders seldom kill; however, the mechanisms and associated complications certainly do. We recently encountered a patient with a mysterious lactic acidosis. The patient proved to be a most capable teacher of important lessons.

In this issue, Robinson and coworkers provide new insights into the mechanisms of initiation of chromosome replication in Archea. This and other studies, focused on model organisms, will certainly help to understand how the replication process has evolved in Eukaryotes.

The venerated author presents evidence to prove that the physical body of man is certainly the instrument for practicing dharma, the non-observance of which leads to all miseries.