By Reviews by Sue Woolfe, Sarah Pearce, Amelia Walker, Philippa Moore, Dominique Hecq, Julia Prendergast, Ian Gibbins, Michele Seminara, Bronwyn Lovell. New books of interest to the Creative Writing discipline

Despite these benefits as a member of a Catholic health system, Saint Amelia is facing challenges in terms of its financial position and its ability to transform itself for health care’s emerging value-based payment system. More than half of Saint Amelia’s patient population is on Medicaid, and the hospital has had operating margins below 1 percent for several years — leaving little for the inv...

Amelia, defined as the complete absence of the skeletal parts of a limb that occurs when the limb formation process is either prevented or interrupted very early in the developing embryo between 24 and 36 days following fertilization (1-4). Amelia is generally thought to be a sporadic anomaly. But more than 50% of the cases it is associated with major malformations in other organ systems (4). T...

Graphical Representations of Adolescents’ Psychophysiological Reactivity to Social Stressor Tasks: Reliability and Validity of the Chernoff Face Approach and Person-Centered Profiles for Clinical Use Andres De Los Reyes, Amelia Aldao, Noor Qasmieh, Emily J. Dunn, Melanie F. Lipton, Catharina Hartman, Eric A. Youngstrom, Lea R. Dougherty, and Matthew D. Lerner Online First Publication, July 18, ...

We report an inbred Tunisian family, in which the proband manifested signs of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, subtotal amelia, scoliosis and left renal agenesis. Two other family members had the full clinical criteria of hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia, characterized by deficient sweat glands, hypodontia, hypoplasia of the mucous glands, and fine hair. Nine family subjects had variable cli...

Cecilia Galbete, Rafael Contreras, J Alfredo Martínez Miguel Ángel MartínezGonzález, Francisco Guillén-Grima and Amelia Marti 1 Department of Nutrition, Food Science, Physiology and Toxicology, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain 2 Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain 3 Division of Preventive Medicine, University of Navarra Clinic, Pampl...

The case presented is that of a parturient with tetra-amelia, the congenital absence or near absence of all limbs. The difficulties encountered with monitoring and venous access due to absence of extremities illustrate the necessity for a detailed management plan with emphasis on early intervention. The reasons for the high incidence of operative delivery are outlined.

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