Sir—We appreciate the comments by Sartin et al. [1] on our article [2] encouraging routine HIV testing. For HIV testing to become a routine part of medical care, procedural barriers, including signed informed consent and pretest counseling, need to be reexamined. The policy of obtaining signed informed consent prior to HIV testing was created to protect the privacy of patients at a time when th...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate electrodermal activity (EDA) as a prospective biomarker of treatment response, to determine whether patterns of EDA are altered by treatment, and to assess oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) as a possible moderator of trajectories in EDA after an empirically supported behavioral intervention for attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in preschool. METHOD Nonsp...

INTRODUCTION Targeting of evidence-based programs can be improved by knowing who benefits least and most. We examined pretest predictors of increased physical activity among participants enrolled in Active for Life. METHODS Participants (N = 1,963) from 9 community-based organizations took part in a 6-month telephone-based or a 20-week group-based behavioral physical activity program and comp...

PURPOSE To evaluate the 21-gene recurrence score (RS) on decision-making in a population-based cohort. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients with axillary node-negative or nodal micrometastases, estrogen receptor-positive, and human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-negative breast cancer being considered for chemotherapy were eligible. All cancer treatment centers in Ontario, Canada, participated. ...

We produce a one-parameter family of hyperplane arrangements that are counterexamples to the conjecture of Saito that the complexified complement of a free arrangement is K(n, 1 ). These arrangements are the restriction of a one-parameter family of arrangements that arose in the study of tilings of certain centrally symmetric octagons. This other family is discussed as well. I. Definitions and ...

BACKGROUND Programs for improving health status of patients with illness related to pain, such as headache, are often still in their infancy. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) is a new psychotherapy that appears to be effective in treating chronic pain and stress. This study evaluated efficacy of MBSR in treatment of perceived stress and mental health of client who has tension headache....

OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of a safety education program, Safety City, that is designed to teach kindergarten and first grade children how to cross the street, call 911 in an emergency, and avoid strangers. PARTICIPANTS/SETTING Kindergarten students at 10 urban elementary schools. DESIGN Each school was randomized to either the intervention or control group. An evaluation tool...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Underutilization of acute stroke therapy is driven by delay to hospital arrival. We present the primary results of a pilot, randomized, controlled trial to encourage calling 911 for witnessed stroke among middle school children and their parents. METHODS This project occurred in Corpus Christi, an urban Texas community of 325,000. Three intervention and 3 control school...