Aimery de Gramont, Hôpital Saint Antoine, Paris, France Daniel G. Haller, Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Daniel J. Sargent, Mayo Clinic, Cancer Center Statistics, Rochester, MN Josep Tabernero, Vall d’Hebron University Hospital, Medical Oncology Service, Barcelona, Spain Alastair Matheson, Foundation ARCAD, Paris, France Richard L. Schilsky, Universit...

OBJECTIVE To determine trends in diabetes prevalence among Native Americans and Alaska Natives. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS From 1990 to 1997, Native Americans and Alaska Natives with diabetes were identified from the Indian Health Service (IHS) national outpatient database, and prevalence was calculated using these cases and estimates of the Native American and Alaskan population served by I...

The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is the principal provider of information about the evidence relating to effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in healthcare in the National Health Service of England and Wales. NICE regards quality as primarily to do with effectiveness, safety and the patient experience. In this paper we comment on the quality of evidence regarding...

"To assess the relative roles of race and ethnicity in shaping patterns of residential segregation, this article utilizes indices of segregation and a geographic mapping strategy to examine the residential patterns of West Indian blacks in the greater New York City area. The socioeconomic characteristics of neighborhoods occupied by West Indian blacks are also examined and compared to those of ...

Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland Community Nutrition and Dietetic Service, Health Service Executive, North County Dublin, Ireland Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, Beaumont Hospital, Dublin 9, Ireland Trinity Centre, St James Hospital, Dublin 8, Ireland NR Consulting, 3 Lumiera, Kilmacanogue, Co., Wicklow, Ireland Irish Society for Clinical ...

S Kirby, M Moore, T McGarron, P Johnstone, D Perkins, D Lyle Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia Broken Hill Base, Royal Flying Doctor Service, Broken Hill Airport, New South Wales, Australia Tibooburra Health Service, Tibooburra, New South Wales, Australia Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health, University of Newcastle, Bloomfield Campu...

Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; Department of Clinical Pathology, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada; Blood Center of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada; Canadian Blood Services, Hamilton, ON, Canada; National Health Service Blood and Transplant/Oxford University ...

The focus in this paper is to understand the likely influence of climate change on vector production and malaria transmission in India. A set of transmission windows typical to India have been developed, in terms of different temperature ranges for a particular range of relative humidity, by analysing the present climate trends and corresponding malaria incidences. Using these transmission wind...