consisted of chemoradiation therapy in the following manner: Two cycles of Paclitaxel (Taxol®)-Carboplatin followed by Paclitaxel-Carboplatin with radiation therapy (XRT) to the GE junction for six weeks followed by maintenance Folinic Acid-Oxaliplatin-Fluorouracil (FOLFOX 6) every two weeks. Drug dosing was modified in accordance with complete blood count (CBC) results. Serial PET scans were p...

Secondary dyslipidemia is the most common form of lipid metabolism derangement, due to the fact that primitive dyslipidemia represent only 0.5-2% of cases (1). Transplantation is a common cause of dyslipidemia, it has been shown that it defines metabolic syndrome, a common finding in renal transplant recipients (RTR) (2), and statins are within the top 15 drugs used by these patients (3). Moreo...

Intensified and extensive data production and data storage are characteristics of contemporary western societies. Health data sharing is increasing with the growth of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platforms devoted to the collection of personal health and genomic data. However, the sensitive and personal nature of health data poses ethical challenges when data is disclosed and ...

A medical institution possesses both public and private inter­ ests. However, recently, the public side of things has been em­ phasized because medical practice can involve invading the hu­ man body for treatment. As a result of this emphasis on public interests, medical law stipulates symbolic regulations on a hos­ pital's duty to prevent infections and the duty of medical per­ sonnel to provi...

We exhibit a polynomial time computable plane curve Γ that has finite length, does not intersect itself, and is smooth except at one endpoint, but has the following property. For every computable parametrization f of Γ and every positive integer n, there is some positive-length subcurve of Γ that f retraces at least n times. In contrast, every computable curve of finite length that does not int...

Human computation is the technique of performing a computational process by outsourcing some of the difficult-toautomate steps to humans. In the social and behavioral sciences, when using humans as measuring instruments, reproducibility guides the design and evaluation of experiments. We argue that human computation has similar properties, and that the results of human computation must be repro...