Clinical toxicology is a rapidly evolving discipline. Each new pharmaceutical agent, illicit drug, industrial chemical, and household product carries the potential for human toxicity. In addition, combinations of these agents offer limitless possibilities for adverse events, all of which need to be interpreted and shared. Case reports provide the perfect forum for the initial discussion of thes...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study is to reassess the projected rate of Electronic Health Record (EHR) diffusion and examine how the federal government's efforts to promote the use of EHR technology have influenced physicians' willingness to adopt such systems. The study recreates and extends the analyses conducted by Ford et al. (1) The two periods examined come before and after the U.S. Fede...

Design: Meta-analysis and bass modeling are used to compare EHR diffusion rates for two distinct periods of government activity. Very low levels of government activity to promote EHR diffusion marked the first period, before 2004. In 2004, the President of the United States called for a “Universal EHR Adoption” by 2014 (10 yrs), creating the major wave of activity and increased awareness of how...

Over the last ten years interest in the physics of de Sitter spacetime has been growing very fast. Besides the supposed existence of a “de sitterian period” in inflation theories, the observational evidence of an acceleration of the universe expansion (interpreted as a positive cosmological constant or a “dark energy” or some form of “quintessence”) has triggered a lot of attention in the physi...

introduction: the traditional view that neonates are not capable of perceiving pain has been refuted and there is now no doubt those neonates feel pain. although babies cannot express their pain as older children, but capable to show in response the pain a set of measures as observable behavioral responses. the aim of this study was to determine effect of foot reflexology on physiologic index o...