INTRODUCTION Blood transfusions form a crucial and irreplaceable part in the medical management of many diseases. The collection of blood from voluntary, non-remunerated blood donors from low risk populations is an important measure for ensuring the availability and safety of blood transfusion. In a state like Uttarakhand which is visited by lakhs of visitors during pilgrimage season and where ...

Identity process theory proposes that adjustment to aging can be conceptualized as involving the three processes of identity assimilation (maintaining self-consistency), identity accommodation (making changes in the self), and identity balance (maintaining a sense of self but changing when necessary). Measures of the identity processes and self-consciousness were administered to a community sam...

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We have used equilibrated human blood for blood-gas quality control since 1970. In blood equilibrated 24 h after shedding, gas tensions are stable for 4 to 6 h at 0 to 4 degrees C; each control specimen is analyzed several times during that period to resolve malfunctions, etc. Three-fourths of all errors in gas-tension measurement detected with equilibrated blood were detected with the highest-...

Recent research on bodily self-consciousness has assumed that it consists of three distinct components: the experience of owning a body (body ownership); the experience of being a body with a given location within the environment (self-location); and the experience of taking a first-person, body-centered, perspective on that environment (perspective). Here we review recent neuroimaging studies ...

Emerging Wearable Physiological Monitoring Technologies and Decision Aids 1 for Health & Performance 2 3 4 Michael N. Sawka 5 6 Karl E. Friedl 7 8 9 10 School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA 30332 11 12 2 Department of Neurology, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 13 94121 14 15 16 17 18 Running Head: Wearable Physiological Sensor M...

Measles incidence has declined significantly in the United States since the 1989-1991 resurgence. Several conditions, including pockets of underimmunization, international importation, and the inability to rapidly detect and contain cases, represent potential threats to this success. During the 1995-1996 winter holiday season, the Minnesota Department of Health investigated an outbreak of measl...

Using original survey data, this paper examines whether monetary rewards and honor rewards encourage or discourage blood donation. On the use of monetary rewards, we find that i) the overall sample’s response to monetary rewards is positive, and ii) people who volunteer more frequently, people who donated blood regularlt and people who donate blood to help others respond less positively to mone...

BACKGROUND Health care professionals (HCPs) routinely review handwritten blood glucose (BG) logbooks during office visits of patients with diabetes. METHOD In this study, 64 HCPs were asked to assess glycemic patterns and estimate BG averages in six simulated handwritten logbooks. The HCPs then reviewed the pattern logs and averages in six OneTouch® Verio™IQ meters containing corresponding da...