This is the first study to examine the valuation effects of any antitakeover amendment on both bondholders and stockholders. We present new evidence documenting that, on average, there is a significant wealth loss experienced by bondholders at poison pill adoption announcement, while stockholders are unaffected. Our finding of significant bondholder losses is consistent with the proposed negati...

sion: tissue stores become partially depleted. J Lab Clin Med 138:206–213 13. Iskandar SB, Olive KE (2004) Plasmapheresis as an adjuvant therapy for hypertriglyceridemia-induced pancreatitis. Am J Med Sci 328:290–294 14. Malmström R, Packard CJ, Watson TDG, Rannikko S, Caslake M, Bedford D, Stewart P, Yki-Järvinen H, Shepherd H, Taskinen M-R (1997) Metabolic basis of hypotriglyceridemic effects...

Health psychology emerged as a discipline in the late 1970s in the United States and f lourished in Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. Although it is a recent phenomenon, the amount of scientific work produced on this subject to date is impressive, the Health Psychology Division of the American Psychological Association being the second largest division in number of members. Health psychology is co...

Submitted by: Naif M. AlAnazy, MD, Saad A. Al-Shahwan, MD, Zeeshan Azmat, MD, Brahim Tabarki, MD. From the Division of Pediatric Neurology (AlAnazy, Al-Shahwan, Tabarki), Department of Pediatrics, and the Division of Neuroradiology (Azmat), Department of Radiology, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Address correspondence to: Dr. Brahim Tabarki, Division of Ne...

Campbell criticizes Britain's medical and research community and the General Medical Council (GMC) for their lack of initiative in investigating the activities of Drs. James Sharp and Jabar Sultan. Sharp and Sultan conducted a series of highly-publicized but unethical and potentially harmful experiments with private patients that was eventually brought to public attention by Campbell's report ...

The health and education institutions that were established based on Foundation tradition starting from the Umayyad and Abbasid, and especially in the Seljuk and Ottoman periods in the Turkish-Islam civilization where the patients were treated without expecting anything in return and health information based on practice and observation were provided were named “Darüşşifa”. It is derived from wo...

Medical advice by: Bermans Iskandar, M.D., Dept. of Neurological Surgery, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI John Heiss M.D., Surgical Neurology Branch, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD Roger Kula, M.D., The Chiari Institute, Great Neck, NY Dominic Marino, D.V.M, Long Island Veterinary Specialists, Great Neck, NY John Oro, M.D., Neurosurgery Center of Colorado, Aurora, CO Richard E...

1 On behalf of The Change Pain Latin America Advisory Panel: Argelia Lara-Solares, José Alberto Flores Cantisani, César Amescua-García, María del Rocío Guillén Núñez, Aziza Jreige Iskandar, Patricia Bonilla, Osvandré Lech, Durval Campos Kraychete, María Antonieta Rico, John Jairo Hernández-Castro, Frantz Colimon, Carlos Guerrero, William Delgado Barrera, Manuel Sempértegui Gallegos, María Beren...