Background: The percentage of adults achieving hemoglobin A1c goals less than 7% remains a challenge. study objective was to evaluate effects multidisciplinary approach on behavioral outcomes and mean change in immediate start (intervention) versus 6-month delay (control) groups at 6 months. Methods: assessed 111 patients recruited from safety-net primary care clinic with phar...

Treatment of metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer is complex and we are facing more questions with major practical impact with the available effective drugs. Treatment optimization requires that all clinical partners work together. Survival is linked to the number of regimen used. The androgen pathway is key, while chemotherapy is the other major tool.

Logic is not just about single-agent notions like reasoning, or zero-agent notions like truth, but also about communication between two or more people. What we tell and ask each other can be just as logical as what we infer in Olympic solitude. We show how communication and other interactive phenomena can be studied systematically by merging epistemic and dynamic logic, leading to new types of ...

Complex social behavior builds on the mutual judgment of individuals as cooperation partners and competitors [1]. Play can be used for assessing the others' dispositions in humans and nonhuman mammals [2], whereas little is known about birds. Recently, food-caching corvids have been found to rival primates in their ability to judge the behaviors and intentions of others in competition for hidde...

15-day increase in hospital length of stay (LOS), a financial impact of $4 billion to $16 billion annually, and a 19% increase in 6-month mortality. Delirium is common across all patient settings; the prevalence, however, varies according to acuity of illness. Delirium develops in general medicine patients at rates ranging from 11% to 42%. The highest prevalence of delirium, as high as 87%, occ...