Fast-forward sixteen years to Mitch's life as a successful newspaper sports columnist and broadcast journalist. Adept at juggling phone calls, faxes, interviews, problems, often it seems while driving too fast to another appointment on an overloaded docket, Mitch has a wonderful wife but no time to spend with her, a beautiful house on a hill, a stock portfolio, and a brother he hasn't talked to...

Unspecified DOI: 10.1136/bmj.310.6984.941a Posted at the Zurich Open Repository and Archive, University of Zurich ZORA URL: http://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-124469 Published Version Originally published at: Egger, Mattias; Twisselmann, Wiebke; Ledergerber, Bruno (1995). Differences in progression of HIV infection between men and women. BMJ, 310(6984):941. DOI: 10.1136/bmj.310.6984.941a Proportions (9...

SCIENCE sciencemag.org Riedl calls his approach “rationalization,” which he designed to help everyday users understand the robots that will soon be helping around the house and driving our cars. “If we can’t ask a question about why they do something and get a reasonable response back, people will just put it back on the shelf,” Riedl says. But those explanations, however soothing, prompt anoth...

We’ve listened closely to the recent Cain Brothers’ House Calls on behavioral health[2] and, like many professionals in this market, we believe these factors and others will continue to drive investment. As a result, we remain bullish on this sector of health care. Moreover, there are additional factors that contribute to a strong market and private equity investors are well situated to take ad...

According to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission, an estimated 22 million Americans used their computers to seek medical information in 1995, making health concerns the sixth most common reason for using the Internet in the United States. Market research firms estimate that the number of people going online for this purpose is growing by 70% annually. Developments in computer technology, the Inte...

BACKGROUND Interest in improving care for the growing number of individuals with chronic conditions is rising. However, access to care is limited by distance, disability, and distribution of doctors. Small-scale studies in Parkinson disease, a prototypical chronic condition, have suggested that delivering care using video house calls is feasible, offers similar clinical outcomes to in-person ca...

Background At present of the limitation of the current case finding strategies and the global urgency to improve tuberculosis (TB) case finding, a renewed interest in active case finding (ACF) has risen. World Health Organization (WHO) calls for research on TB screening among low-income countries because of the limitation of the passive case finding strategies. We aimed to evaluated Active Case...