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Deafdigest: Gold Edition, September 2, 2007, Barry Strassler

DeafDigest Gold 2007

No abstract provided.

A Critical Examination Of The Fda’S Efforts To Preempt Failure-To-Warn Claims, David A. Kessler, David C. Vladeck

O'Neill Institute Papers

This article explores the legality and wisdom of the FDA’s effort to persuade courts to find most failure-to-warn claims preempted. The article first analyzes the FDA’s justifications for reversing its long-held views to the contrary and explains why the FDA’s position cannot be reconciled with its governing statute. The article then examines why the FDA’s position, if ultimately adopted by the courts, would undermine the incentives drug manufacturers have to change labeling to respond to newly-discovered risks. The background possibility of failure-to-warn litigation provides important incentives for drug companies to ensure that drug labels reflect accurate and up-to-date safety information. …

Assessment In Crisis, Amresh Srivastava

Psychiatry Presentations

No abstract provided.

Fall Conference 2007: Cultivating The Teacher/Scholar, Center For Teaching & Learning, California Polytechnic State University - San Luis Obispo

Center for Teaching, Learning and Technology

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A Benefit Transfer Approach To The Estimation Of Agro-Ecosystems Services Benefits: A Case Study Of Kern County, California, Eivis Quenani-Petrela, Jay E. Noel, Thomas Mastin

Agribusiness

Agro-ecosystem functions support not only the production of food and fiber but a variety of non-market goods and services that are socially valuable. Examples of those non-market goods and services include aesthetic experiences, wildlife habitat, carbon sequestration, and recreation to name a few. There is a growing awareness of the importance that provision of these non-market goods and services has to the long-run sustainability of agriculture in general and California agriculture in particular. This awareness has led to an increasing interest in the estimation of the economic value of agro-ecosystem functions non-market goods and services. This increased awareness can be …

His, Hers Or Ours? – Who Has The Right To Determine The Disposition Of Frozen Embryos After Separation Or Divorce?, April J. Walker

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Domesticity And The Texas Community Property System, Lauren F. Redman

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.

Why Judy Norman Acted In Reasonable Self-Defense: An Abused Woman And A Sleeping Man, Marina Angel

Buffalo Women's Law Journal

No abstract provided.

How Japan's Recent Efforts To Reduce Sex Trafficking Can Be Improved Through International Human Rights Enforcement Mechanisms: Fulfilling Japan's Global Legal Obligations, Kerry E. Yun

Buffalo Human Rights Law Review

No abstract provided.

September 2007, Inland Empire Business Journal

Inland Empire Business Journal

Don't Manage Time, Invest it in People 11

The Dirt People of Rialto 12

Watch Those Speed Bumps! Avoiding Six Common Sales Mistakes 18

Women Helping Women: How Mentoring Can Help Your

Business 34

Double Tree Redux 39

Grant Writer On Board

This Month

Elizabeth Myers assumed the duties of JCCC's first grant professional April 16.

[Full Issue]

This Month

This is the complete issue of This Month for September 2007.

Maternal Serum Polychlorinated Biphenyl Concentrations Across Critical Windows Of Human Development, Michael S. Bloom, Germaine M. Buck-Louis, Aiyi Liu

Environmental Health Sciences Faculty Scholarship

Background

Few data are available on polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) concentrations over critical windows of human reproduction and development inclusive of the periconception window.

Objectives

Our goal was to measure changes in PCB concentrations from preconception to pregnancy, through pregnancy, or after a year without becoming pregnant.

Methods

Seventy-nine women planning pregnancies were prospectively enrolled and followed for up to 12 menstrual cycles of attempting pregnancy. Blood specimens were obtained from participating women preconceptionally (n = 79), after a positive pregnancy test leading to a live birth (n = 54) or pregnancy loss (n= 10), at approximately …

Reduced Atrial Tachyarrhythmia Susceptibility After Upgrade Of Conventional Implanted Pulse Generator To Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy In Patients With Heart Failure, Demetris Yannopoulos, Keith Lurie Md, Scott Sakaguchi, Simon Milstein Md

Articles

OBJECTIVES:

We sought to identify the impact of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) on atrial tachyarrhythmia (AT) susceptibility in patients with left ventricular (LV) systolic dysfunction in whom worsening heart failure (HF) resulted in upgrade from conventional dual-chamber pulse generator to cardiac resynchronization therapy-defibrillator (CRT-D).

BACKGROUND:

Cardiac resynchronization therapy with a defibrillator improves survival rates and symptoms in patients with LV systolic dysfunction but little is known about its effects on AT incidence in the same patient population.

METHODS:

Twenty-eight consecutive HF patients who underwent device upgrade to CRT-D were included. Patients had > or =2 device interrogations in the 1 year …

Patient Care News: September 2007, St. Cloud Hospital

Patient Care News

Accreditation: Recovery Plus & Journey Home 5-Day Internal Radiation Therapy for Breast Cancer offered by Coborn Cancer Center

Christmas Scheduling

EMR Help Don’t Let EMR Get Between You and Your Patients Deactivation of JRS E-Mail

Whitney Without Walls Program Upcoming Education and Professional Programs

Clinical Ladder

Pharmacy & Therapeutics Update: Drug Information For Health Care Professionals, Medical University Of South Carolina, Paul Bush, Kelli Garrison, Jason Cooper

Pharmacy & Therapeutics Update: Drug Information for Health Care Professionals

No abstract provided.

Daily Announcements September 2007, Wofford College. Office Of Marketing And Communications

Communications Office Daily Announcements

No abstract provided.

Re:View, 2007, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. School Of Architecture

Re:View

No abstract provided.

Cultivatingbigideas, September 2007, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Technology Development Foundation

Cultivating Big Ideas

No abstract provided.

Partners, September 2007, Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food, And Life Sciences (University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville). Center Of Excellence For Poultry Science

Partners

No abstract provided.

Colleague, Fall 2007, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. College Of Education And Health Professions, University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville. Department Of Education Reform

Colleague

No abstract provided.

Graduate, Fall-Winter 2007, Dale Bumpers College Of Agricultural, Food, And Life Sciences (University Of Arkansas, Fayetteville)

Graduate

"For alumni and friends of the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences and the University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture."

Reciprocal Effects Of Mir-122 On Expression Of Heme Oxygenase-1 And Hepatitis C Virus Genes In Human Hepatocytes, Ying Shan, Jianyu Zheng, Richard W. Lambrecht, Herbert L. Bonkovsky

UCHC Articles - Research

Background & Aims Heme oxygenase-1 (HO-1) is an antioxidant defense and key cytoprotective enzyme, which is repressed by Bach1. MicroRNA-122 (miR-122) is specifically expressed and highly abundant in human liver and required for replication of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA. This study was to assess whether a specific miR-122 antagomir down-regulates HCV protein replication and up-regulates HO-1. Methods We transfected antagomir of miR-122, 2′-O-methyl-mimic miR-122, or non-specific-control antagomir (NSCA) into wild type Huh-7 cells or Huh-7 stably replicating HCV subgenomic core-NS3 (CNS3 replicon cells), or NS3-5B (9–13 replicon cells). Results Antagomir of miR-122 reduced the abundance of HCV-RNA by 64% …

Outer Marker Beacon: The Seventh Circuit Confirms The Contours Of Federal Question Jurisdiction In Bennett V. Southwest Airlines Co., William K. Hadler

Seventh Circuit Review

In Bennett v. Southwest Airlines Co., the Seventh Circuit was asked to rule on the contours of federal question jurisdiction. In the court’s analysis, it offered a recitation of the evolution of the boundaries of federal question jurisdiction where federal issues are embedded in state law claims. This history, especially in the Supreme Court, has been characterized by change. Much of the first 100 years of federal question jurisdiction, governed by the statutory grant of § 1331, was more broadly defined than the recent interpretation represented by the "Modern Test" announced by the Supreme Court’s 2005 decision in Grable …

Determining Whether Plaintiff Prevailed Is A "Close Question"—But Should It Be?, Nikolai G. Guerra

Seventh Circuit Review

According to the “American rule,” litigants must bear their own litigation costs, including attorneys’ fees, absent statutory authorization allowing otherwise. With the emergence of fee-shifting provisions in various statutes, particularly in the area of civil rights, a court may award a prevailing party its attorneys’ fees and other costs. Deciding whether a party prevailed for purposes of a fee-shifting statute, however, requires courts to engage in an analysis of the benefit the plaintiff has received from his judgment. Recently, in Karraker v. Rent-A-Center, the Seventh Circuit held that a plaintiff class prevailed for purposes of the American with Disabilities …

Familia Interruptus: The Seventh Circuit’S Application Of The Substantive Due Process Right Of Familial Relations, Scott J. Richard

Seventh Circuit Review

For almost a century, the Supreme Court has recognized the substantive due process right of individuals to be free from government intrusion into the control and management of their families. From its inception, however, the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence related to this constitutional right has been ambiguous, as its rhetoric has outstripped its application and explication of this fundamental liberty interest. The Court’s most recent decision on familial rights, Troxel v. Granville, also failed to provide lower courts with proper guidance as to how to apply and protect this due process right. In the context of this confused Supreme Court …

No More Imports: Seventh Circuit Decision In United States V. Genendo Is An Expensive Pill For American Consumers To Swallow, Nicole L. Little

Seventh Circuit Review

Approximately half of American consumers take at least one prescription drug a day. However, the United States has significantly higher drug prices than most other countries, and many American consumers struggle to pay for the drugs they need. A legislative response to America’s drug-pricing problem has been slow to transpire, and consumers have turned elsewhere to cut their costs. Some consumers personally import from countries abroad that sell the drugs they need at discounted prices. The drugs these consumers receive may not be of the same quality they expect from drugs bought in the United States, but they are willing …

"Based Upon" And The False Claims Act's Qui Tam Provision: Reevaluating The Seventh Circuit's Method Of Statutory Interpretation, Antonio J. Senagore

Seventh Circuit Review

No one knows precisely why Congress used the phrase “based upon” in the Public Disclosure Bar of the False Claims Act, but the phrase’s meaning has confounded the circuit courts. In United States ex rel. Fowler v. Caremark Rx, LLC, the Seventh Circuit reaffirmed its narrow, minority definition of “based upon.” In its brief decision, the court skipped over a complex analysis of the Public Disclosure Bar. Yet, through that statute, Congress tried to keep opportunists from abusing the qui tam provision, which lets private citizens pursue billions of dollars lost to government fraud. After reexamining the Seventh Circuit’s …

Krieg V. Seybold: The Seventh Circuit Adopts A Bright Line In Favor Of Random Drug Testing, Dana E. Lobelle

Seventh Circuit Review

In Krieg v. Seybold, Robert Krieg challenged the City of Marion, Indiana’s, policy of random drug testing as it applied to his job as a heavy-equipment operator in the Department of Streets and Sanitation. While the Fourth Amendment normally would require the City to have a reasonable suspicion that Krieg used drugs before it could require him to submit to a drug test, the Supreme Court has created a “safety” exception to this rule. This exception permits government employers to test certain safety-sensitive employees for drugs without suspicion where a characteristic of the workplace makes suspicion-based testing impractical. The …

Njit Libraries Annual Report Fy2006-2007, Njit Libraries

Library Annual Reports

No abstract provided.