Effect of home-based asthma medication therapy management program on pediatric African Americans with uncontrolled asthma.

Objectives: To determine the impact of a pharmacist home-based and telephonic medication therapy management (MTM) program for African American children enrolled in a state Medicaid plan with asthma exacerbations. Caregivers' knowledge of asthma is described.

Design: This study was a quasi-experimental, pre-post prospective study with 2 phases: a pre-phase followed by a 12-month intervention post-phase in which each patient served as their own control.

Academic Detailing Has a Positive Effect on Prescribing and Decreasing Prescription Drug Costs: A Health Plan's Perspective.

Background: When initiated by a health plan, academic detailing can be used to change prescribing practices, which can lead to increased safety and savings.

Objective: To evaluate the impact of academic detailing on prescribing and prescription drug costs of cefixime to a health plan.

Methods: A prospective intervention study was carried out that evaluated the prescribing practices and prescription drug costs of cefixime.

Performance during competition and competition outcome in relation to testosterone and cortisol among women.

A contribution to a special issue on Hormones and Human Competition. This study investigated the relation between competition, testosterone (T), and cortisol (C) in women. One hundred and twenty female participants competed against a male confederate in a computerized laboratory task.

Moving forward with interdisciplinary research on attractiveness-related biases.

In our response, we review and address the comments on our target article made in the 25 commentaries. First, we review and discuss the commentaries that recognized the value of our approach, accepted the main premises and conclusions of our target article, and suggested further avenues for research on attractiveness-related biases. We then respond to commentators who either misinterpreted some parts of our target article or made statements with which we disagree.

Observed Effectiveness of Palivizumab for 29-36-Week Gestation Infants.

Background: Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a common reason for hospitalization of infants. In clinical trials, palivizumab reduced RSV hospitalization rates for premature infants. The 2014 American Academy of Pediatrics clinical practice guideline advised against use of palivizumab for otherwise healthy infants ≥29 weeks' gestation.

Explaining financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive people: Interdisciplinary perspectives from economics, social psychology, and evolutionary psychology.

Financial and prosocial biases in favor of attractive adults have been documented in the labor market, in social transactions in everyday life, and in studies involving experimental economic games. According to the taste-based discrimination model developed by economists, attractiveness-related financial and prosocial biases are the result of preferences or prejudices similar to those displayed toward members of a particular sex, racial, ethnic, or religious group. Other explanations proposed by economists and social psychologists maintain that attractiveness is a marker of personality, intelligence, trustworthiness, professional competence, or productivity.

Interest in Babies Negatively Predicts Testosterone Responses to Sexual Visual Stimuli Among Heterosexual Young Men.

Men's testosterone may be an important physiological mechanism mediating motivational and behavioral aspects of the mating/parenting trade-off not only over time but also in terms of stable differences between mating-oriented and parenting-oriented individuals. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that self-reported interest in babies is inversely related to testosterone reactivity to cues of short-term mating among heterosexual young men. Among 100 participants, interest in babies was related to a slow life-history strategy, as assessed by the Mini-K questionnaire, and negatively related to testosterone responses to an erotic video.

The α5 neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit plays an important role in the sedative effects of ethanol but does not modulate consumption in mice.

Background: Alcohol use disorders (AUDs) are a major public health problem, and the few treatment options available to those seeking treatment offer only modest success rates. There remains a need to identify novel targets for the treatment of AUDs. The neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) represent a potential therapeutic target in the brain, as recent human genetic studies have implicated gene variants in the α5 nAChR subunit as high risk factors for developing alcohol dependence.

From a to z: medication cost-management strategies for disproportionate share hospitals.

Background: Harris County Hospital District, Houston, TX, is a publicly funded hospital system that provides care to residents of Harris County with a need-based payment system. The Harris County Hospital District pharmacy department, with a drug budget of more than $75 million in fiscal year 2010, utilizes a closed formulary system that is managed by the Formulary Management and Pharmacoeconomics Service, along with the medical staff. This service is comprised of clinical pharmacists whose goal is to provide a comprehensive, safe, and cost-effective formulary.

Cometabolism of trihalomethanes by mixed culture nitrifiers.

Three mixed-culture nitrifier sources degraded low concentrations (25-450 microg/L) of four trihalomethanes (THMs) (trichloromethane (TCM) or chloroform, bromodichloromethane (BDCM), dibromochloromethane (DBCM), tribromomethane (TBM) or bromoform) commonly found in treated drinking water. Individual THM rate constants (k1THM) increased with increasing THM bromine-substitution with TBM>DBCM>BDCM>TCM and were comparable to previous studies with the pure culture nitrifier, Nitrosomonas europaea. A decrease in temperature resulted in a decrease in both ammonia and THM degradation rates with ammonia rates affected to a greater extent than THM degradation rates.