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A new zygodactylid species indicates the persistence of stem passerines into the early Oligocene in North America.

BACKGROUND: The lake deposits of the informal Ruby Paper Shale unit, part of the Renova Formation of Montana, have yielded abundant plant fossils that document Late Eocene - Early Oligocene global cooling in western North America. A nearly complete…

Rheumatoid arthritis at a time of passage.

OBJECTIVE: To determine the relationship of what has been called pre-Columbian Old World rheumatoid arthritis (RA) to the RA identified in pre-Columbian North America. METHODS: All published claims of pre-Columbian Old World RA were reviewed against…

Tags: 2001, Ancient, Arthritis, Europe, History, Humans, North America, Rheumatoid/*history, Rothschild B M, The Journal of rheumatology

Origins of spondyloarthropathy in Perissodactyla.

OBJECTIVE: Spondyloarthropathy has clearly been documented as not limited in occurrence to humans. Transmammalian in nature, it is of interest to understand the antiquity, and perhaps the origins, of this disorder in animal groups sufficiently…

Burden of community-acquired pneumonia in North American adults.

To determine the burden of community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) affecting adults in North America, a comprehensive literature review was conducted to examine the incidence, morbidity and mortality, etiology, antibiotic resistance, and economic impact…

Tags: 2010, Adult, Bacterial – Economics, Bacterial – Epidemiology, Bacterial – Microbiology, Bacterial – Mortality, Bacterial – Prevention and Control, Bacterial/economics/*epidemiology/microbiology/prevention & control, Community-Acquired Infections – Economics, Community-Acquired Infections – Epidemiology, Community-Acquired Infections – Microbiology, Community-Acquired Infections – Prevention and Control, Community-Acquired Infections/economics/epidemiology/microbiology/prevention & control, Cost of Illness, Department of Internal Medicine, Economic Aspects of Illness, File Thomas M Jr, Health Care Costs, Health Status Indicators, Hospitalization – Economics, Hospitalization – Statistics and Numerical Data, Hospitalization/economics/statistics & numerical data, Human, Humans, Incidence, Length of Stay – Statistics and Numerical Data, Length of Stay/statistics & numerical data, Marrie Thomas J, NEOMED College of Medicine, North America, North America/epidemiology, Pneumococcal Vaccine, Pneumococcal Vaccines, Pneumococcal/economics/epidemiology/mortality/prevention & control, Pneumonia, Postgraduate medicine, Risk Factors, Streptococcus, Streptococcus pneumoniae

"Your breasts/sliced off": literary images of breast cancer.

This essay explores how breast cancer and mastectomy are portrayed in twentieth-century North American literature. The purpose in doing so is to examine our understandings of how women in contemporary North American culture may experience this…

Tags: *Drama, *Medicine in Literature, *Poetry as Topic, *women's health, 1993, Adult, Breast Neoplasms/*psychology/surgery, Denial (Psychology), Department of Family & Community Medicine, Female, Humans, Mastectomy/*psychology, Middle Aged, NEOMED College of Medicine, North America, Psychological/*etiology, Stress, Wear D, Women & health

Oral contraceptive failure rates and oral antibiotics.

BACKGROUND: Despite anecdotal evidence of a possibility of decreased effectiveness of oral contraceptives (OCs) with some antibiotics, it is not known whether antibiotic use in dermatologic practices engenders any increased risk of accidental…

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