Brain oriented neonatal intensive care requires a high degree of technical and clinical expertise, sophisticated neuroimaging and electrophysiological investigations. Such an approach is crucial for several reasons: (a) the newborn brain is in a developing state and many of the currently used treatment modalities can cause gross or subtle brain injury; (b) unlike damage to other organ systems, ...

This is an answer to Elisabeth Camp's and Elijah Millgram's probing articles about Games the Art of Agency, published in this symposium.

Tinea capitis is a common infection, particularly among young children in urban regions. The infection often is seen in a form with mild scaling and little hair loss, a result of the prominence of Trichophyton tonsurans (the most frequent cause of tinea capitis in the United States). T. tonsurans does not fluoresce under Wood light, unlike the common tinea capitis-causing fungal organisms seen ...

Not surprisingly, the state of the law varies considerably in different countries. We are indebted to the W.H.O. International Digest of Health Legislation for the information on nine European countries on which these notes are based, and must apologise in advance if our attempts to summarise this have led to any misconceptions. For facilities for studying the Digest we are indebted to the offi...

by Barbara E. Kritzer Barbara E. Kritzer is with the Office of Research, Evaluation, and Statistics, Office of Policy, Social Security Administration. The United States is currently engaged in a national discussion about whether to make personal accounts a part of Social Security. To date, 31 other countries have implemented some type of individual, or personal, account as part of their mandato...