| human rabies--california, georgia, minnesota, new york, and wisconsin, 2000. | on september 20, october 9, 10, 25, and november 1, 2000, persons who resided in california, new york, georgia, minnesota, and wisconsin, respectively, died of rabies. this report summarizes the case investigations. | 2000 | 11917926 |
| research regulations on subjects' "capacity to give consent" were unconstitutional. | | 2000 | 11917940 |
| novel cryptosporidium genotypes in sporadic cryptosporidiosis cases: first report of human infections with a cervine genotype. | in this study, we genotyped parasites from the fecal specimens of sporadic cryptosporidiosis cases in british columbia from 1995 to 1999. genotyping was conducted by polymerase chain amplification of the internal transcribed spacer region, a hypervariable region in the 18s rrna gene and the cryptosporidium oocyst wall protein gene. subsequent analysis was by restriction fragment length polymorphism and dna sequencing. we identified two new cryptosporidium genotypes in humans. one of these genoty ... | 2002 | 11927023 |
| nature's impartiality, man's inhumanity: reflections on terrorism and world crisis in a context of historical disaster. | this paper compares the terrorist outrages of 11 september 2001 in new york city and washington to the lisbon earthquake of 1 november 1755. both events occurred, literally out of the blue, at critical junctures in history and both struck at the heart of large trading networks. both affected public attitudes towards disaster as, not only did they cause unparalleled destruction, but they also represented symbolic victories of chaos over order, and of moral catastrophism over a benign view of huma ... | 2002 | 11929156 |
| still falling: a community-wide infant walker injury prevention initiative. | despite the well-known risk of injury associated with use of infant walkers, they remain popular, leading to large numbers of walker-related injuries. a coalition of health care providers and educators, with the assistance of retailers and medical and human service agencies, undertook an intensive multifaceted, community-wide intervention to educate the general and health care public regarding the dangers of infant walker use and thereby reduce the number of walker-related injuries in our commun ... | 2002 | 11932114 |
| the effect of ethnicity and maternal birthplace on small-for-gestational-age deliveries to hiv-infected women. | to examine the relative role of ethnicity and maternal birthplace on small-for-gestational-age (sga) deliveries of a cohort of mothers in new york who were infected with human immunodeficiency virus. | 2002 | 11937623 |
| relationship between cytokine levels and coronary artery disease in women. | inflammation is thought to have a role in the pathogenesis of atherosclerotic coronary artery disease (cad), and the measurement of markers of inflammation has been suggested to improve the identification of individuals at risk for this disease. the incidence of cad in women is not accounted for by conventional risk factors, and the association of cad and the antiinflammatory cytokine transforming growth factor beta1 (tgf-beta1) in this population is unknown. associations among tgf-beta1, the in ... | 2001 | 11975775 |
| more dollars for new york. | with the shock from sept. 11 still fresh, the greater new york hospital association, led by kenneth raske, left, went ahead and did what had to be done, crunching numbers to attempt to quantify the staggering loss. last week its hard work paid off when hhs announced another round of emergency funding to healthcare organizations that suffered direct losses from the terrorist attacks. | 2002 | 11989347 |
| essentials for effective communication in oncology nursing: assertiveness, conflict management, delegation, and motivation. | the ability to communicate effectively with a multidisciplinary team in an assertive manner to resolve conflict, motivate others, and delegate tasks is a prerequisite skill to promote a harmonious work environment. acquisition of this skill is often a combination of inherent attributes and learned experiences. this article describes a program on assertiveness, conflict resolution, motivation of others, and delegation. nurses are encouraged to seek expertise from other departments (e.g., human re ... | 2001 | 11998676 |
| where will i go? displaced nurses relate their experiences. | registered nurses have been experiencing displacement, the nonvoluntary transfer or reassignment of the registered nurse to another unit or position, or layoff, termination, and severing of nursing personnel as a result of the closure of hospitals and other agencies and the physical relocation of departments or units. the purpose of this qualitative study is to describe the human experience of change from the perspective of displaced nurses. thirteen registered nurses employed at eight metropoli ... | 2000 | 12004526 |
| regression of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia and loss of human papillomavirus (hpv) infection is associated with cell-mediated immune responses to an hpv type 16 e7 peptide. | most human papillomavirus (hpv)-associated cervical intraepithelial neoplasia(cin) lesions in normal women regress spontaneously, but a small number persist and may progress to invasive cancer. to evaluate the role of immunity to hpv and the outcome of cin and associated hpv infection, we examined cell-mediated immune (cmi) responses to hpv 16 e6 and e7 peptides. one hundred thirty-six women with biopsy-confirmed cin i or cin ii were followed for 1 year at 3 month intervals. study subjects were ... | 2002 | 12010863 |
| state trends in health risk factors and receipt of clinical preventive services among us adults during the 1990s. | monitoring trends is essential for evaluating past activities and guiding current preventive health program and policy efforts. although tracking progress toward national health goals is helpful, use of national estimates is limited because most preventive health care activities, policies, and other efforts occur at the state or community level. there may be important state trends that are obscured by national data. | 2002 | 12020301 |
| named reporting and mandatory partner notification in new york state: the effect on consent for perinatal hiv testing. | the impact of the implementation of named reporting and mandatory partner notification on the percentage of patients not accepting prenatal human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) testing or deferring prenatal care has been examined in only a preliminary fashion. this retrospective, population-based cohort study of 5,007 patients admitted to a tertiary care labor-and-delivery unit in central new york state between december 15, 1999, and march 14, 2001, is the first study to address the impact of name ... | 2002 | 12023499 |
| birth-weight-specific infant and neonatal mortality: effects of heterogeneity in the birth cohort. | birth-weight-specific infant mortality is examined using a novel statistical procedure, parametric mixtures of logistic regressions. the results indicate that birth cohorts are composed of two or more subpopulations that are heterogeneous with respect to infant mortality. one subpopulation appears to account for the "normal" process of fetal development, while the other, which accounts for the majority of births at both low and high birth weights, may represent fetuses that were "disturbed" duri ... | 2002 | 12030647 |
| increased use of cigarettes, alcohol, and marijuana among manhattan, new york, residents after the september 11th terrorist attacks. | the september 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were the largest human-made disaster in the united states since the civil war. studies after earlier disasters have reported rates of psychological disorders in the acute postdisaster period. however, data on postdisaster increases in substance use are sparse. a random digit dial telephone survey was conducted to estimate the prevalence of increased cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption, and marijuana use among residents of manhattan, new york city, 5-8 ... | 2002 | 12034577 |
| in re finn. | the new york supreme court, albany county, invalidated portions of new york's do not resuscitate (dnr) law for vagueness and rescinded a dnr order written for a sixty-seven year old profoundly retarded man with many ailments, none life threatening. the new york dnr law permits orders to be written for the incompetent when two physicians concur that the order is in the patient's best interests and that to a reasonable degree of medical certainty, (1) the patient has a terminal condition, (2) the ... | 1995 | 12041114 |
| t.d. v. new york state office of mental health. | the new york supreme court, appellate division, affirmed a lower court decision that invalidated a state regulation concerning informed consent by children or adults incapable of consent to experimentation with more than minimal risk. the new york mental health regulation had allowed third parties such as a spouse, parent, adult child, adult sibling, guardian, or authorized committee to make decisions about research participation by involuntarily committed state mental patients. at best possibly ... | 1996 | 12041119 |
| t.d. v. new york state office of mental health. | the new york supreme court for new york county determined that a state regulation allowing substituted consent to research on mentally ill individuals by a spouse, parent, adult child or sibling, guardian, or authorized committee did not apply to nonfederally funded research. the court was asked by a group of involuntary state mental patients to decide on the validity of state regulations concerning participation in potentially high risk experimentation without consent. the patients, who were in ... | 1995 | 12041120 |
| hecht v. kaplan. | the new york supreme court, appellate division, reversed the lower trial court and dismissed a patient's complaint that the unauthorized testing of her blood for a contagious disease violated her bodily integrity, constituted unauthorized human research, and breached a duty to warn her husband. trudy hecht had consented to blood withdrawal for cytomegalovirus (cmv) testing. at the time, an additional tube of blood was drawn from the same needle and puncture site. the second vial, however, was no ... | 1996 | 12041121 |
| north shore university hospital v. rosa. | the new york court of appeals upheld the lower appellate court's decision that a dental clinic's "isolation treatment" protocol did not violate the state human rights law. the clinic's protocol applied to any patient either known or perceived to be an intravenous drug abuser, a recipient of multiple blood transfusions, a hemodialysis patient, a male homosexual, a prostitute, or patient infected with hiv, hepatitis b, mononucleosis or tuberculosis. under the protocol, the patient was placed in an ... | 1995 | 12041263 |
| rust v. sullivan. | the federal public health service act specifies that no title x funds used for family planning services "shall be used in programs where abortion is a method of family planning." in 1988, the secretary of health and human services promulgated regulations that prohibited title x projects from abortion counseling, referral, or advocacy. various title x doctors sued, alleging violations of their first and fifth amendment rights. the supreme court found the regulations to be a permissible constru ... | 1991 | 12041295 |
| the man in the wooden box. | | 2002 | 12064263 |
| construction and characterization of subgenomic replicons of new york strain of west nile virus. | the lineage i strain of west nile virus (wnv) frequently causes human epidemics, including the recent outbreak in north america (lanciotti et al., 1999, science 286:2333-2337). as an initial step in studying the replication and pathogenesis of wnv, we constructed several cdna clones of a wnv replicon derived from an epidemic strain (lineage i) isolated from the epicenter of new york city in the year 2000. replicon rnas were in vitro transcribed from cdna plasmids and transfected into bhk-21 cell ... | 2002 | 12069521 |
| the emergence of west nile virus in north america: ecology, epidemiology, and surveillance. | in late summer 1999, the first domestically acquired human cases of wn encephalitis were documented in the usa. aggressive vector-control and public education efforts by state and local public health officials limited the extent of human involvement. the discovery of virus-infected, overwintering mosquitoes during the winter of 1999-2000, predicted renewed virus activity for the following spring, and prompted early season vector-control activities and disease surveillance efforts in nyc and the ... | 2002 | 12082991 |
| high prevalence of hepatitis c infection among patients receiving hemodialysis at an urban dialysis center. | to determine the seroprevalence and risk factors for hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection among patients at an urban outpatient hemodialysis center. | 2002 | 12083235 |
| prospective study of infective endocarditis among injection drug users. | to determine the effect of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) infection and other factors on infective endocarditis (ie) among injection drug users (idus), the incidence of ie was determined according to hiv status in a cohort of idus. a nested case-control study assessed ie risk factors. ie incidence (117 cases) was higher among hiv-seropositive than hiv-seronegative idus (13.8 vs. 3.3 cases/1000 person-years) during 1988-1998. multivariate analysis of hiv-infected case patients revealed an inv ... | 2002 | 12085322 |
| protection of human subjects. effective 1 sep 1975. | | 1975 | 12085891 |
| seroprevalence of antibodies that react with anaplasma phagocytophila, the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis, in different populations in westchester county, new york. | we determined the frequencies of antibodies to anaplasma phagocytophila, the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis (hge), in different groups of adults and children from westchester county, new york. the groups included 159 adult blood donors and 215 children who were seronegative for borrelia burgdorferi antibodies, 118 adult patients and 57 children who were seropositive for b. burgdorferi antibodies, and 42 adult patients with culture-confirmed erythema migrans. eighteen (11.3%) of the blo ... | 2002 | 12089287 |
| bridging child welfare and juvenile justice: preventing unnecessary detention of foster children. | gaps in service coordination between child welfare and other child-serving agencies are well documented. this article examines the gap between the child welfare and juvenile justice systems and discusses a program, project confirm, designed to reduce the problems associated with this gap. project confirm aims to improve cooperation between juvenile justice and child welfare agencies to prevent the unnecessary detention of arrested foster children in secure facilities. the program's design is out ... | 2002 | 12092669 |
| familial dysautonomia: detection of the ikbkap ivs20(+6t --> c) and r696p mutations and frequencies among ashkenazi jews. | familial dysautonomia (fd) is an autosomal recessive congenital neuropathy that occurs almost exclusively in the ashkenazi jewish (aj) population. mutations in the ikappab kinase complex-associated protein (ikbkap) gene cause fd. two ikbkap mutations, ivs20(+6t --> c) and r696p, have been identified in fd patients of aj descent. the splice site mutation ivs20(+6t --> c) is responsible for > 99.5% of known aj patients with fd, and haplotype analyses were consistent with a common founder. in contr ... | 2002 | 12116234 |
| apartment residents' and day care workers' exposures to tetrachloroethylene and deficits in visual contrast sensitivity. | tetrachloroethylene (also called perchloroethylene, or perc), a volatile organic compound, has been the predominant solvent used by the dry-cleaning industry for many years. the u.s. environmental protection agency (epa) classified perc as a hazardous air pollutant because of its potential adverse impact on human health. several occupational studies have indicated that chronic, airborne perc exposure adversely affects neurobehavioral functions in workers, particularly visual color discrimination ... | 2002 | 12117642 |
| parent to parent: preventing adolescent exposure to hiv. | a 2-year pilot program implemented by public health nurses (phns) in partnership with the leaders of parent associations of 10 urban high schools encouraged communication about health-promoting sexual behavior between adults and adolescents. the purpose was to assess the feasibility of involving parents in health promotion efforts in schools. during the first year, phns prepared a cohort of 17 parent trainers to make presentations to parent groups about the reality of teens' risk for human immun ... | 1999 | 12119981 |
| classic articles of 19th-century american neurologists: a critical review. | the purpose of this article is to critically review citation classics of 19th-century members of the american neurological association (ana), and to elaborate what these works contributed and why they continue to be important. most classic articles of 19th-century american neurologists were initial or early descriptions of clinical conditions, diseases, or procedures. these include descriptions by beard of the jumping frenchmen of maine; by sachs of "amaurotic family idiocy" (tay-sachs disease); ... | 2002 | 12122807 |
| poliovirus advance sparks fears of data curbs. | | 2002 | 12124589 |
| nursing the chronically critically ill patient. | the provision of care to the cci patient is complex, challenging, and unique. the advanced practice nursing model at mount sinai hospital is one successful care delivery model that fills the needs of both cci patients and the nurses who work with them. the following transferable aspects of the rcu add to the unit's successful outcomes: (1) an interdisciplinary approach assures that all aspects of care are included in the clinical plan; (2) clinical care pathways, algorithms, and standard protoco ... | 2002 | 12140910 |
| the new york times ad. | feminization of patriarchal institutions is necessary in order to eliminate the exclusivity and mutuality of hierarchical, gender, class, and race stratification. the aim of this paper is to explain the history and activities surrounding the new york times ad on sunday, october 7, 1984 (the catholic statement on pluralism and abortion signed by barbara ferraro and patricia hussey of the sisters of note dame de namur, rose dominic trapasso of the maryknoll sisters, and 67 other signers). the si ... | 1993 | 12178920 |
| systemic lupus erythematosus disease severity in men and women: a case-control study. | to assess the severity of systemic lupus erythematosus (sle) in men compared to women. | 2002 | 12180728 |
| new york state laws on protection of human subjects conflict with each other. | | 1999 | 12194198 |
| public health impact of reemergence of rabies, new york. | this report summarizes the spread of a raccoon rabies epizootic into new york in the 1990s, the species of animals affected, and human postexposure treatments (pet). a total of 57,008 specimens were submitted to the state laboratory from 1993 to 1998; 8,858 (16%) animals were confirmed rabid, with raccoons the most common species (75%). after exposure to 11,769 animals, 18,238 (45%) persons received pet, mostly because of contact with saliva or nervous tissue. we analyzed expenditure reports to ... | 2002 | 12194765 |
| informed consent for research is related to basic legal rights of all individuals. | | 2000 | 12199224 |
| court said irb had too much power to make consent decisions for minors. | | 2000 | 12199227 |
| invalidated state regulations violated subjects' rights. | | 2000 | 12201314 |
| ergonomic exposures in apple harvesting: preliminary observations. | recent research on occupational injury to apple harvest workers in new york and pennsylvania indicates that muscle strain is one of their leading problems. a descriptive study of ergonomic risks for strains of the shoulder and lower back among apple harvesters was carried out to identify opportunities for intervention. | 2002 | 12210676 |
| regular use of aspirin and pancreatic cancer risk. | regular use of aspirin and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (nsaids) has been consistently associated with reduced risk of colorectal cancer and adenoma, and there is some evidence for a protective effect for other types of cancer. as experimental studies reveal a possible role for nsaids is reducing the risk of pancreatic cancer, epidemiological studies examining similar associations in human populations become more important. | 2002 | 12213184 |
| american immigration policy, chinese immigration, and chinese concentration in new york city. | this article explores the relationship between us immigration laws, chinese immigrants' initial choices of residences and occupations in new york city, and the recent expansion of new york's chinatown. data were obtained from a questionnaire administered to 121 chinese immigrants in new york in 1980. it was hypothesized that a high degree of immigrant concentration in areas such as chinatown is a result of migration policies that favor chain migration. during the period of time (1943-65) when ... | 1985 | 12222470 |
| vaccines to treat encephalitis lethargica: human experiments at the neurological institute of new york, 1929-1940. | encephalitis lethargica, first observed in 1915, became a pandemic. because of its presumed infectious basis, there were early attempts to treat it with vaccines. the history of the use of these vaccines has not been analyzed. | 2002 | 12223039 |
| prevalence and determinants of burnout among physical and occupational therapists. | it is generally speculated that the ongoing changes in the health care system may increase the incidence of burnout among health care providers. the purposes of this cross-sectional study were to determine (1) the prevalence of burnout among physical therapists (pts) and occupational therapists (ots), (2) sociodemographic and work-related factors associated with emotional exhaustion (ee), depersonalization (dp), and personal achievement (pa) traits of pts and ots. in fall 1998, 169 pts and 138 o ... | 2002 | 12227263 |
| deaths in world trade center terrorist attacks--new york city, 2001. | on september 11, 2001, terrorists flew two hijacked airplanes into the world trade center (wtc) in lower manhattan in new york city (nyc), destroying both towers of the wtc. this report presents preliminary vital statistics on the deaths caused by the terrorist attacks and describes the procedures developed by the new york city department of health and mental hygiene (nycdohmh) to issue death certificates in response to the attacks. these data underscore the need for legal mechanisms to expedite ... | 2002 | 12238537 |
| family planning services and population research act. | the senate human resources subcommittee under the chairmanship of senator alan cranston has completed its work on the family planning services and population research amendments of 1973 (s. 1708) and has referred the bill to the senate labor and public welfare committee. right-to-life activists are zeroing in on committee members in hopes of amending the bill to prohibit federal funds for sterilization and continued research on abortifacient drugs. if such provisions were to be approved, it w ... | 1973 | 12276914 |
| africa and the aids myth. | the recently released television documentary, "monkey business, aids: the african story," has created controversy in europe with its premise that aids did not originate in africa. although aids 1st appeared in new york in 1981 and was not recorded in africa until 1983, researchers and the media have promoted the theory that aids came from africa through human contact with the green monkey. subsequent research forced the original champions of this "green monkey connection" theory to acknowledge ... | 1990 | 12282947 |
| [american policy (1986-1989): results and limits]. | although the american program to legalize illegal immigrants succeeded in giving legal status to over 3 million foreigners between 1987-88, the experience contributes to understanding of the limitations in a state's ability to control illegal immigration. some part of the illegal population entitled to legalization failed to apply to 1 of the 110 offices opened for the purpose, but the proportion is debatable because in the us as elsewhere the exact numbers and characteristics of the illegal po ... | 1990 | 12283120 |
| economic woes mean cuts to family planning services. | due to budget cuts at the federal, state, and local levels, family planning clinics that rely in public funding are facing financial hardship. in 1980, the federal government provided $162 million for family planning under title 10. but for 1991, the allocation was down to $140 million. compared to 1980, there are 100 fewer government-funded clinics providing family planning. many health clinics have simply ceased providing such services. the community family planning council in new yor ... | 1991 | 12284064 |
| susan philliber, ph.d.: investigating the decision for sterilization among poor women. | a study conducted by dr. susan philliber with support from the national institute of child health and human development, "sterilization decision making and consequences among poor women," offers important information for family planning counselors. this study, which was carried out in 1985-89, involved interviews with 1800 women at public hospitals clinics in atlanta, new york city, and pittsburgh. unique was the longitudinal design of the study, which enabled multiple interviews with subjects o ... | 1992 | 12285570 |
| the making of an immigrant niche. | "this article speaks to the conceptual and methodological issues in research on the making of an immigrant niche through a case study of immigrant professionals in new york city government." the author argues that "the growth of this immigrant niche resulted from changes in the relative supply of native workers and in the structure of employment, which opened the bureaucracy to immigrants and reduced native/immigrant competition. these shifts opened hiring portals; given the advantages of netw ... | 1994 | 12287276 |
| why schools should make condoms available to teenagers. | the controversy surrounding sex education and condom availability programs in schools in new york city and throughout the us continues because parents worry that such programs encourage teenagers to engage in sexual behavior. but the reality is that more and more teenagers are engaging in sexual behavior anyway. the carnegie council on adolescent development found the 17% of girls and 29% of boys engaged in sexual intercourse by the time they were 16 years old. many parents are ready to blame ... | 1994 | 12287913 |
| new york state club ass'n v. city of new york, 20 june 1988. | the plaintiffs, a consortium of private clubs, sought an order declaring unconstitutional new york city local law 63. this law stipulates that clubs with more than 400 members that provide regular meal services and regularly receive payment directly or indirectly from or on the behalf of nonmembers for the furtherance of trade or business would not to be considered "distinctly private" and, thus, would be subject to the city's human rights law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, cr ... | 1988 | 12289263 |
| banning of funding for the use of fetal tissue for experimentation, march 1988. | in march 1988 the department of health and human services of the us issued a temporary ban on experimental transplants of fetal tissues. the ban was extended on 1 november 1989. see the new york times, 2 november 1989, section a, p. 1. | 1988 | 12289558 |
| doe v. smith, 15 june 1988. | the unmarried natural father of an unborn child applied to the us supreme court for an injunction forbidding the mother of the child to have an abortion. justice stevens, acting as circuit justice, denied the application. he ruled that the father's interest in the unborn child was outweighed by the mother's constitutionally protected right to have an abortion and that serious doubts existed whether there was a federal remedy to the father's request since the mother could obtain an abortion wit ... | 1988 | 12289565 |
| planned parenthood federation of america v. bowen, 25 february 1988. | the plaintiffs were family planning (fp) services and physicians who sought a preliminary injunction against enforcement of regulations promulgated by the secretary of health and human services of the us. the regulations prohibited counseling and referral for abortion services by fp services that receive funds under title x of the public health services act. the court held that the regulations exceeded the secretary's authority, since nothing in title x or legislative history relating to its e ... | 1988 | 12289568 |
| milton v. cary medical center, 22 february 1988. | in maine, the parents of a viable fetus brought a wrongful death action charging a hospital and physician with negligence resulting in the death of the fetus. the court held that, for the purposes of the state's wrongful death statute, a fetus is not a person and that the action could not be maintained. in 1988, other us courts reached the following decisions: 1) a viable fetus is not a human being as defined by the aggravated vehicular homicide statute of kansas (state vs. trudell); 2) there ... | 1988 | 12289582 |
| district judge acquits new york state clinic blockaders. | in january 1997, a us district court judge in new york dismissed charges against two anti-abortion protestors who had been obstructing access to a reproductive health care facility. the previous february, the same judge had issued an injunction barring the protestors from violating the freedom of access to clinic entrances act (face). in the current ruling, the judge dismissed contempt charges issued after the protestors violated the injunction because the protestors were a monk and a retired ... | 1997 | 12292102 |
| cdc warns of hiv "clusters" in low-prevalence areas. | the us centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) recently reported an outbreak of hiv infection among a group of young women in rural chautauqua county, new york, who apparently contracted hiv from a single, highly infectious man. although the index case refused to donate blood for analysis, 13 of the 47 women who had sex with the man became infected. the 10 primary contacts who provided blood samples for analysis were infected with highly similar viruses. the 13 women who apparently a ... | 1999 | 12295183 |
| hepatitis c virus and human immunodeficiency virus-1 co-infection in former heroin addicts in methadone maintenance treatment. | to investigate hepatitis c (hcv) and human immunodeficiency virus (hiv-1) prevalence in former opiate or heroin addicts currently in methadone maintenance treatment (mmt). | 2002 | 12296502 |
| abortion: the continuing controversy. | while most countries of the world practice abortion, government policy, medical opinion, private opinion and actual practice vary widely. although mortality from legal abortions is quite low, complications rise sharply after 12 gestational weeks. no conclusive proof shows adverse postabortion psychological effects. romania, japan and the soviet union experienced declining birth rates when abortion was made available and new york city saw a decline in illegitimacy of approximately 12% from 197 ... | 1972 | 12306354 |
| immigration and urban change. | this article discusses the relationship between the new immigration (migrants who have arrived in the us since 1965) and the changing economic and ecological characteristics of the cities in which they have settled. the author concentrates on new york, los angeles, chicago, san francisco, and miami, which together contain 46% of all 1965-1980 immigrants. the new immigration began with the hart-cellar act in 1965, which abolished the old country of origins quota, affirmed family connections as ... | 1989 | 12316381 |
| conference report. interview: dr. fred sai. programme expansion "a major advance". | the 1994 international conference on population and development (icpd) scored quite a success in winning the inclusion of the improvement of women's status and the need for human resource development as part of the population dimension. it was also agreed in program terms that reproductive health is the main basis from which to proceed in family planning. the abortion debate was good in that it raised the conference profile through the world's media and forced people to consider and discuss th ... | 1994 | 12319120 |
| internal migration patterns for u.s. foreign-born, 1985-1990. | "using 1990 census data, this paper calculates the flow [of the foreign-born population in the united states] between states and from abroad; also, a multinomial logistic regression model of destination choice is estimated for resettlers and for migrants from abroad. there are three major findings. firstly, florida and california are the largest recipients of foreign-born resettlers; new york is the biggest loser of secondary migrants. secondly, the presence of large communities of mexicans in c ... | 1997 | 12321146 |
| epidemiologic transition in the united states: the health factor in population change. | the general theory of epidemiologic transition is explained. the theory hypothesizes that long-term changes in health and disease patterns in any society are related to the demographic and social conditions in that country. mortality is considered to be the major factor in population change. the theory is illustrated by a detailed consideration of birth and death trends in the u.s. mortality decline began in the u.s. in the middle of the nineteenth century. associated with this decline was ... | 1977 | 12335110 |
| reproductive biology in the oneida community, 1848-1880. | the oneida community -- a communistic settlement that originated in 1848 and was located in central new york state -- made medical history in the areas of birth control, sexuality, and selective breeding. the perfectionist theology of the community's leader, john humphrey noyes, held that the 2nd coming of christ had already occurred, that true believers had already been "saved," and that he had been designated as an agent of god to proclaim "heaven on earth." this spiritual condition involved ... | 1972 | 12336631 |
| state of new york v. sullivan [1 november 1989]. | the plaintiffs were a new york family planning organizations and physicians who challenged regulations issued by the us department of health and human services that prohibited grantees from counselling women about abortion and referring them to abortion services unless they did so in separate facilities with separate personnel not supported by federal funds. the court of appeals for the 2nd circuit upheld the regulations. it ruled that they constituted a permissible construction of statutory l ... | 1989 | 12344096 |
| davis v. davis [21 september 1989]. | in tennessee, the parties were a separated wife and husband who contested the disposition of 7 cryogenically frozen embryos produced by means of in vitro fertilization using the wife's ova and the husband's sperm. the wife sought custody of the embryos so that she could have them implanted in order to become pregnant. the court granted temporary custody of the embryos to the wife. it held that life begins at conception and that, thus, the embryos were children, rather than property, as the hu ... | 1989 | 12344463 |
| teen choice of inwood house. | the teen choice program in new york city was described and the outcome of the program evaluation was reported. teen choice is a school based sex education and pregnancy prevention program run by trained social workers. the aim is to provide information, counseling, and referrals on a range of issues relating to sexuality. the program is elective and meets during a regularly scheduled gym period for one or two semesters from the 7th to the 12th grades. there are single sex and coeducational c ... | 1994 | 12345545 |
| let's not forget about the men. | replacing the concept of "women in development" with that of "gender in development" reflects a welcome perspective which views men and women as intrinsically bound and able to work together to achieve shared goals. women's empowerment is now recognized as a human issue which a significant number of men are willing to support. identifying gender gaps remains an important first step, and many programs are most effective if their first efforts are devoted to building capacities of women in separ ... | 1995 | 12346505 |
| newsmaker interview: geraldine ferraro. striving for equality. | geraldine ferraro is a long-standing advocate of women's rights who currently serves as the us ambassador to the un's human rights commission. she was elected to the us congress in 1978, after which she served three terms as a representative from the state of new york. ms. ferraro led efforts to pass the equal rights amendment, sponsored the women's economic equity act, and ran on the democratic national ticket in 1984 as the first woman vice-presidential candidate. this paper presents the te ... | 1995 | 12346510 |
| the association of idealization and intimacy factors with condom use in gay male couples. | despite all of the education and public awareness about aids in the us, some gay men have not adopted risk-reduction behaviors. findings are reported from a study exploring the extent to which a gay man idealizes his partner is linked to reported condom use among gay male couples. the study also explored how the following intimacy factors are linked to condom use: relationship satisfaction, relationship excitement, and interpersonal closeness. questionnaires were distributed to 125 gay male c ... | 1997 | 12348422 |
| work and family roles: indian career women in india and the west. | this study examines indian career women's work and family roles, sources of stress, ways of coping, and well-being in the light of cultural expectations in india and the west. a number of different instruments were included to measure job satisfaction, mental health, job stressors, coping behavior, demographic characteristics, domestic responsibility and satisfaction. data were collected, using two earner stressor questionnaires (a coping behavior questionnaire and a mental health and job sati ... | 1999 | 12349197 |
| primary and secondary syphilis among men who have sex with men--new york city, 2001. | after declining steadily for 10 years, the number of reported cases of primary and secondary (p&s) syphilis more than doubled in new york city (nyc) from 117 in 2000 to 282 in 2001. the increases have occurred primarily among men who have sex with men (msm). of particular concern is the high proportion of syphilis cases among msm who also have human immunodeficiency virus (hiv). this report summarizes 2001 p&s syphilis data for nyc and compares it with surveillance data for 1999 and 2000; findin ... | 2002 | 12363336 |
| predictors of health and human services use by persons with dementia and their family caregivers. | the aim of this study was to identify predictors of the use of health and human services by community residing persons with dementia and their family caregivers. telephone interviews were conducted with a sample of 608 primary caregivers of community residing persons with dementia who were randomly selected from a state-wide dementia registry. the anderson behavioral model of health care use was used as the analytic framework. hierarchical ordinary least squares regression models were developed ... | 2002 | 12365535 |
| the effects of migration on the detection of geographic differences in disease risk. | human migration can make it more difficult to detect geographic differences in disease risk because of the spatial diffusion of people originally exposed in a given geographic area. there are also situations where migration can facilitate the detection of disease attributable to environmental hazards. this paper assesses the effects that migration has on the ability to detect regional variability in disease risk. several characteristics of migration are discussed, including some that are not wid ... | 2002 | 12383466 |
| estimated risk of west nile virus transmission through blood transfusion during an epidemic in queens, new york city. | human west nile virus (wnv) infection has been documented in the eastern united states since its discovery there in 1999. epidemics of wnv encephalitis and meningitis raise concern that transmission of wnv may occur through voluntary blood donations. | 2002 | 12385413 |
| negotiating without a net. a conversation with the nypd's dominick j. misino. | in some languages, the word for "business" is the same as the word for "negotiation." that's not really surprising: every interaction--with customers, suppliers, and even partners and investors--entails negotiation. and some involve very high stakes: the breakdown in negotiations between hewlett-packard's management and its founding families, for instance, put the company's future in doubt. dominick misino is a man who knows about negotiating when the stakes are at their very highest. as a hosta ... | 2002 | 12389461 |
| mediators of social support and antiretroviral adherence among an indigent population in new york city. | survey interviews were conducted with a random sample of 50 primarily indigent, african american and puerto rican men and women at an outpatient human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) clinic in the bronx, new york. analyses revealed a generally high rate of adherence according to self-report data (i.e., on average, participants reported taking 85% of their medications over the last 3 days). however, adherence to the correct number of pills, dosing schedules, and special instructions was more problem ... | 2002 | 12396695 |
| domestic violence screening and referral can be effective. | we provide a targeted intervention in the emergency department for intimate partner violence (ipv) victims and to facilitate follow-up care from a professional case manager. | 2002 | 12399791 |
| failure to implement respiratory isolation: why does it happen? | respiratory isolation for 90% of individuals with acid-fast bacillus (afb)-smear-positive tuberculosis (tb) is a recommended performance indicator in recent infectious diseases society of america and centers for disease control and prevention guidelines. however, compliance with respiratory isolation reported from multiple centers in the united states and europe falls short of that goal. | 2002 | 12400889 |
| molecular analysis in support of an investigation of a cluster of hiv-1-infected women. | an investigation of a possible single-source sexual transmission case was conducted in upstate new york in 1997-1998 (mmwr 1999;48:413-416). of 42 primary female contacts with the putative male index case, 13 tested positive for hiv infection. blood was available for dna sequencing (c2v3c3 region of the env gene and the p17-coding region of gag) from 10 of the 13 women, 1 hiv-infected secondary contact, and 2 hiv-infected persons from the community, but not from the index cam. phylogenetic and d ... | 2002 | 12402955 |
| heterogeneity and seroprevalence of a newly identified avian hepatitis e virus from chickens in the united states. | we recently identified and characterized a novel virus, designated avian hepatitis e virus (avian hev), from chickens with hepatitis-splenomegaly syndrome (hs syndrome) in the united states. avian hev is genetically related to but distinct from human and swine hevs. to determine the extent of genetic variation and the seroprevalence of avian hev infection in chicken flocks, we genetically identified and characterized 11 additional avian hev isolates from chickens with hs syndrome and assessed th ... | 2002 | 12409397 |
| environment: trash trends. | | 2002 | 12410295 |
| crack cocaine use and other risk factors for tuberculin positivity in drug users. | two-step tuberculin testing and standardized interviews of 793 current and former drug users were performed to determine the risk factors for tuberculin positivity. the prevalence of tuberculin positivity was 25%. factors independently associated with tuberculin positivity among participants seronegative for human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) included crack cocaine use (adjusted odds ratio [or], 1.6; 95% confidence interval [ci], 1.0-2.5), employment as a home health aide (adjusted or, 2.1; 95% ... | 2002 | 12410478 |
| comorbid conditions, treatment, and health maintenance in older persons with human immunodeficiency virus infection in new york city. | we retrospectively examined comorbid conditions and health maintenance in 198 patients aged > or =55 years who attended 3 new york city human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) clinics between 1 january 1990 and 30 june 1998. annual influenza and pneumococcal vaccinations within 5 years were given in 82% and 86% of patients, respectively. among 57 women, 79% had a papanicolaou smear within 1 year, and 53% had a mammogram within 2 years. of 165 patients who received care after 1 july 1996, 147 (89%) ha ... | 2002 | 12410484 |
| the september 11, 2001 disaster and the new york blood supply. | | 2002 | 12423526 |
| kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus infection in elderly jews and non-jews from new york city. | worldwide, kaposi's sarcoma (ks) occurs in immunocompetent elderly adults, especially men. elderly jews have relatively high ks risk, but it is unclear whether this indicates heightened prevalence of ks-associated herpesvirus (kshv), the ks agent. we studied jewish and non-jewish patients at a new york city geriatrics clinic. | 2002 | 12435765 |
| the effectiveness of ergonomic intervention in the classroom. | to see if an in-service on proper body mechanics and ergonomics for computer workstation usage can increase a student's knowledge regarding these areas. | 2002 | 12441592 |
| a return to the worker role after injury: firefighters seriously injured on the job and the decision to return to high-risk work. | this paper presents information on occupational choices and behaviors as described by the model of human occupation and the profession of occupational therapy. this project was designed to answer the research question, "why do people choose to return to the same high-risk careers after sustaining a serious work-related injury?" two firefighters from a new york metropolitan area were interviewed individually to explore their roles, especially the worker role, their injuries, and their decisions t ... | 2002 | 12454449 |
| interventions to prevent hiv-related stigma and discrimination: findings and recommendations for public health practice. | stigma and discrimination exist in many forms, undermining individual and community health. interventions to combat stigma and discrimination are essential to prevent the spread of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immune deficiency syndrome (hiv/aids). health departments, and others, can benefit by mounting specific interventions against these threats to public health. in new york state, interventions against hiv-related stigma and discrimination are integral components of the comprehensive ... | 2002 | 12463050 |
| an early manuscript in the history of american comparative psychology: lewis henry morgan's "animal psychology" (1857). | lewis henry morgan (1818-1881) is best known as the 1st ethnographer of native american culture, but he also wrote on animal psychology, beginning in 1843, some 50 years before the founding of comparative psychology as a scientific discipline. although not an evolutionist, morgan argued that animals possess many human mental abilities, such as reason and moral judgment, and he rejected the scientific utility of the concept of instinct, a view that did not gain much currency in psychology until t ... | 2002 | 12465615 |
| beliefs about methadone in an inner-city methadone clinic. | despite being considered both the most effective treatment for heroin addiction and an essential tool in the prevention of human immunodeficiency virus (hiv), methadone maintenance (mm) is often held in low esteem by heroin addicts-even those in mm treatment. this survey examined current beliefs and attitudes about mm of patients at an inner-city clinic, and the personal experience and attitudes of these patients with this treatment. consenting patients in a methadone clinic serving a poor popul ... | 2002 | 12468676 |
| [stanley burns--the man who collects historical medical failures]. | | 2002 | 12469588 |
| more pharmacists in high-risk neighborhoods of new york city support selling syringes to injection drug users. | to document changes in pharmacists' opinions and practices from the time of passage to implementation of a law permitting selling syringes without a prescription (the expanded syringe access demonstration program [esap]). | 2002 | 12489618 |
| legal syringe purchases by injection drug users, brooklyn and queens, new york city, 2000-2001. | to assess preliminary results of the expanded syringe access demonstration program (esap) in new york city. | 2002 | 12489620 |
| pharmacy syringe sale practices during the first year of expanded syringe availability in new york city (2001-2002). | [corrected] to assess the role that customer characteristics, including race, age, and gender and pharmacy characteristics, including type and location, play on actual syringe-selling practice by pharmacies registered to sell syringes under the new york state expanded syringe access demonstration program (esap). | 2002 | 12489622 |