| canine exposure to borrelia burgdorferi and prevalence of ixodes dammini (acari: ixodidae) on deer as a measure of lyme disease risk in the northeastern united states. | surveillance programs that identify areas where both the vector (ixodes dammini) and etiologic agent (borrelia burgdorferi) are present may identify the risk of lyme disease and its spread earlier and more accurately than do programs relying on any single method, particularly human case reports. hunter-killed deer (n = 1,204) from 22 counties in maryland, massachusetts, new hampshire, new york, and pennsylvania were examined in fall 1989 and all ectoparasites were identified. the following sprin ... | 1993 | 8433324 |
| supplemental security income for the aged, blind and disabled (ssi) program demonstration project; treatment of cash received and conserved to pay for medical or social services--ssa. notice. | the commissioner of social security will conduct a demonstration project to test how certain altered resources counting rules might apply in the ssi program. the ssi program is authorized by title xvi of the social security act (the act). the rules which will be tested are those that apply to the treatment of cash received and conserved to pay for medical or social services. cash which is received for the purposes of payment for medical or social services is not counted as income to the benefici ... | 1998 | 10185853 |
| new york city can't bar condom instruction in parks. | a new york appeals court acted improperly in barring condom demonstrations from city parks. the state supreme court's appellate division ruled that such demonstrations, in the context of hiv awareness education, are protected by the first amendment. the parks department tried to enforce a regulation barring noncommercial distribution of all products in city parks without a permit, but the court found the regulation broader than necessary to further the governmental interest. | 1998 | 11365059 |
| 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york supreme court, albany county, invalidated portions of new york's do not resuscitate (dnr) law for vagueness and rescinded a dnr order written for a sixty-seven year old profoundly retarded man with many ailments, none life threatening.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 |
| a survey of deans and adea activities on dental licensure issues. | a written survey on issues in clinical testing for licensure was sent to the deans of all dental schools in the united states. response rate was 89 percent. results indicate that administrative leaders of the country's dental schools think that third-party evaluation of graduates is appropriate, but they do not have confidence in current clinical tests for licensure. more than nine out of ten respondents indicated that change was needed in current testing procedures, and 82 percent thought the t ... | 2003 | 14587680 |
| distribution of listeria monocytogenes molecular subtypes among human and food isolates from new york state shows persistence of human disease--associated listeria monocytogenes strains in retail environments. | while there is considerable information available regarding listeria monocytogenes contamination patterns in food processing plants, our understanding of l. monocytogenes contamination and transmission in retail operations is limited. we characterized 125 food, 40 environmental, and 342 human clinical l. monocytogenes isolates collected in new york state from 1997 to 2002 using automated ribotyping and hly allelic variation. all environmental isolates were obtained from retail establishments and ... | 2004 | 15270495 |
| doe v. roe. | court decision: 599 new york supplement, 2d series 350: 1993 may 28 (date of decision). an appellate division of the new york supreme court modified a lower court's dismissal of a patient's claim against his physician for releasing confidential information concerning the patient's hiv status to the patient's employer. the appellate court determined that a private right of action existed against the physician and that the physician's oral promise to keep this information confidential was supporte ... | 1993 | 17078152 |
| health insurance association of america v. corcoran. | court decision: 531 new york supplement 456; 1988 jun 16 (date of decision). the supreme court of new york held that a regulation that prohibited requiring or considering body fluid tests for evidence of the human immunodeficiency syndrome (hiv) in the application for health insurance or the risk management determinations of insurability is not authorized by a consumer protection statute or by a statute that permits the superintendent of insurance to prevent unfair discrimination between individ ... | 1988 | 17083194 |
| familial and cultural influences on sexual risk behaviors among mexican, puerto rican, and dominican youth. | the present study examined the relationship among acculturation, familismo, and hiv-related adolescent sexual risk behavior. data were collected from latino mother-adolescent dyads to permit parent and adolescent analyses of familismo for predicting oral, vaginal, and anal sexual behaviors. a random sample of 702 latino eighth-grade students and their mothers was recruited from new york city. the sample included mexicans (n = 203), puerto ricans (n = 239), and dominicans (n = 260). acculturation ... | 2009 | 19824835 |
| a community-based approach to linking injection drug users with needed services through pharmacies: an evaluation of a pilot intervention in new york city. | studies suggest that community-based approaches could help pharmacies expand their public health role, particularly pertaining to hiv prevention. thirteen pharmacies participating in new york's expanded syringe access program, which permits nonprescription syringe sales to reduce syringe-sharing among injection drug users (idus), were enrolled in an intervention to link idu syringe customers to medical/social services. sociodemographics, injection practices, beliefs about and experiences with ph ... | 2010 | 20528131 |
| advances in the treatment of hepatitis c virus infection. | since 2007, the annual age-adjusted mortality rate in hepatitis c virus (hcv) infection in the united states has been greater than that in hiv disease, reflecting the continuing decline in hiv-related mortality and the continuing increase in hcv-related mortality. the approval of 2 new direct-acting antivirals within the past year, as well as the promise offered by numerous other direct-acting agents in development, provides hope that we will be able to markedly improve our ability to cure hcv d ... | 2014 | 22538244 |
| contact investigations around mycobacterium tuberculosis patients without positive respiratory culture. | to evaluate the yield and effectiveness of contact investigations conducted around potentially infectious tuberculosis (tb) patients with no positive respiratory culture for mycobacterium tuberculosis in new york city (nyc). | 2017 | 25867495 |
| potential oversummering and overwintering regions for the wheat stripe rust pathogen in the contiguous united states. | epidemics of wheat stripe rust, caused by puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (pst), are more frequent in the regions where pst can oversummer and overwinter. regions for potential oversummering and overwintering of pst were determined in the contiguous united states using a survival index (si) ranging from 0 (most unfavorable) to 10 (most favorable) developed based on long-term weather data. the pathogen can survive in cool summer in the most regions north of latitude 40°n, particularly washing ... | 2014 | 23722926 |
| from b.sc. to ph.d., my shuffle off to buffalo. | from the fall of 1978 until the summer of 1982, i was a graduate student in the laboratory of dr. david triggle in the department of biochemical pharmacology, school of pharmacy, state university of new york at buffalo. this contribution permits me the opportunity to take you back in time into david's laboratory and tell you the story of how my early research career was borne and to provide a glimpse into some of the accomplishments that david, i and my fellow graduates students made. the centra ... | 2015 | 26119822 |
| dogs entering the united states from rabies-endemic countries, 2011-2012. | international dog imports pose a risk because of the potential movement of disease agents, including the canine rabies virus variant which has been eliminated from the united states since 2007. us regulations require a rabies vaccination certificate for dogs arriving from rabies-endemic countries, but permit the importation of dogs that have not been adequately immunized against rabies, provided that the dogs are confined under conditions that restrict their contact with humans and other animals ... | 2015 | 25244531 |
| signs of the 2009 influenza pandemic in the new york-presbyterian hospital electronic health records. | in june of 2009, the world health organization declared the first influenza pandemic of the 21(st) century, and by july, new york city's new york-presbyterian hospital (nyph) experienced a heavy burden of cases, attributable to a novel strain of the virus (h1n1pdm). | 2010 | 20844592 |
| respondent-driven sampling in a study of drug users in new york city: notes from the field. | beth israel medical center (bimc), in collaboration with the centers for disease control (cdc) and the new york state department of health (nysdoh), used respondent-driven sampling (rds) in a study of hiv seroprevalence among drug users in new york city in 2004. we report here on operational issues with rds including recruitment, coupon distribution, storefront operations, police and community relations, and the overall lessons we learned. project staff recruited eight seeds from a syringe excha ... | 2006 | 16977493 |
| legislation in new york would let judges test defendants for hiv. | new york governor george e. pataki is seeking legislation that would empower judges to order hiv-antibody tests for people charged with criminal offenses. pataki proposed this legislation when a 6-year-old girl was attacked with a hypodermic needle in december 1995. the attacker, angel coro, refused to be tested for hiv, and current new york law only permits testing in sexual offenses. opponents of the legislation state that the bill would stigmatize people with hiv and offer crime victims no as ... | 1996 | 11363163 |
| hiv infection among intravenous drug users: epidemiology and risk reduction. | research on the epidemiology of hiv infection among iv drug users is still at a relatively early stage. multilocation studies that would permit better geographic comparisons are greatly needed. multi-method studies within single geographic areas are also needed to assess possible biases with respect to sample recruitment and data collection procedures. the continuation of the epidemic provides a changing historical context that complicates any comparisons. despite these problems, there are some ... | 1987 | 3130084 |
| bacterial antibiotic susceptibility tests. evaluation of tests performed by permit clinical laboratories in new york state exclusive of new york city. | | 1992 | 265019 |
| pile driving at the new bridge at tappan zee: potential environmental impacts. | a new bridge will be constructed to replace the aging tappan zee bridge over the hudson river in new york. construction will potentially result in hydroacoustic impacts to the local fish fauna. as a consequence, a substantial environmental impact analysis had to be conducted to obtain construction permits. this paper describes the process of environmental analysis and some of the results of the studies that led up to the final permitting. the process included modeling of pile-driving acoustics, ... | 2016 | 26611043 |