We examine the impact of recent state-level Medicaid policy changes that expanded eligibility for family planning services to higher-income women and to Medicaid clients whose benefits would expire otherwise. We show that the income-based policy change reduced overall births to non-teens by about 2% and to teens by over 4%; estimates suggest a decline of 9% among newly eligible women. The reduc...

We examine the effects of proportional-integral control on the fitness and genetics of an evolving swarm. Introducing controllers with a set point designed to distribute birds equally across the food in a given simulation increases the rate at which the birds accumulate energy, but also increases the rate at which they expire. We find that the amount of food the birds gather is not dependent on...

Copyright © 2016 by the American Academy of Pediatrics In October 2015, the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed the following publication: American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons and Scoliosis Research Society. Position Statement: Screening for Idiopathic Scoliosis in Adolescents. Rosemont, IL: American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons; December 2015. Available at: https:// www. srs. org/ abo...

D A f A p Continuing Education Contact Hours indicates that continuing education contact hours are available for this activity. Earn the contact hours by reading this article, reviewing the purpose/goal and objectives, and completing the online Examination and Learner Evaluation at http://www.aorn.org/CE. A score of 70% correct on the examination is required for credit. Participants receive fee...

The 1996 Mental Health Parity Act (MHPA), which became effective in January 1998, is scheduled to expire in September 2001. This paper examines what the MHPA accomplished and steps toward more comprehensive parity. We explain the strategic and self-reinforcing link of parity with managed behavioral health care and conclude that the current path will be difficult to reverse. The paper ends with ...

help the country to meet requirements in the future. Once the MOU has been signed by the ministry and returned to ITI, delivery of Zithromax® is scheduled for approximately one to two months prior to the time when MDA is to take place. For countries that are already involved and that have received Zithromax® in past years, there needs to be an updated inventory of any drugs already in the count...

This document describes a language for filtering e-mail messages at time of final delivery. It is designed to be implementable on either a mail client or mail server. It is meant to be extensible, simple, and independent of access protocol, mail architecture, and operating system. It is suitable for running on a mail server where users may not be allowed to execute arbitrary programs, such as o...

Copyright © 2016 by the American Academy of Pediatrics In September 2015, the American Academy of Pediatrics endorsed the following publication: Gloss D, Moxley RT III, Ashwal S, Oskoui M. Practice guideline update summary: corticosteroid treatment of Duchenne muscular dystrophy: report of the Guideline Development Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. Neurology. 2016;86(5):465–472...

Sepoy Tora Khan, of the Hongkong Regiment, a stalwart Punjabi, was brought to hospital in a doolie about midnight of 30th December 1899, suffering from fever. History.?He was on four months' furlough at his home (Ghanlci) in the district of Shah pur, Punjab, and as it was about to expire he left his home and arrived at Calcutta on 17th December to sail for Hongkong to rejoin his regiment. He wa...

Apneusis, or apneustic respirations, is characterized by an abnormal breathing pattern involving gasping and the inability to fully expire. A loss of gag reflex and other cranial nerve deficits are also often accompanied with these respiratory changes. In neurological intensive care units (NICUs), these respiratory and airway changes are not uncommon and have been well documented (Lee et al. 19...