Alcohol, microbiome, life style influence alcohol and non-alcoholic organ damage.

This paper is based upon the "8th Charles Lieber's Satellite Symposium" organized by Manuela G. Neuman at the Research Society on Alcoholism Annual Meeting, on June 25, 2016 at New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. The integrative symposium investigated different aspects of alcohol-induced liver disease (ALD) as well as non-alcohol-induced liver disease (NAFLD) and possible repair.

Dentist shortage: an analysis of dentists, practices, and populations in the underserved areas.

Objectives: The objectives of this study are to identify and describe the characteristics of dental underserved geographic areas. Understanding these characteristics is an important step in addressing access to dental care barriers.

Methods: Dental underserved areas were identified from the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) database and converted to census tracts for analysis.

Texas First Dental Home: A Snapshot after Five Years.

Background: Early caries is still the most prevalent disease of childhood. Its incidence continues to be high, despite recent progress in the amount of untreated caries. The disease is more prevalent in low socio-economic and minority groups.

Pay for performance: will dentistry follow?

Background: "Pay for performance" is an incentive system that has been gaining acceptance in medicine and is currently being considered for implementation in dentistry. However, it remains unclear whether pay for performance can effect significant and lasting changes in provider behavior and quality of care. Provider acceptance will likely increase if pay for performance programs reward true quality.

Pay-for-performance in dentistry: what we know.

Little is known about the effect of a pay-for-performance system (P4P) on primary medical care providers and even less is known about its potential impact in dentistry. Based on the growing acceptance of performance-based reimbursements in medicine and the dissemination of innovative technologies, structures, and processes of care from medical to dental services, it is likely that the dental profession will face performance-based payments in the not-too-distant future. In this paper, we present the current experience of P4P in primary medical care that has relevance to dentistry and discuss the dental performance-based programs to date.

Miconazole revisited: new evidence of antifungal efficacy from laboratory and clinical trials.

In the past 40 years imidazoles have been used extensively in medicine for their antifungal properties. All members of the azole antifungal family inhibit ergosterol biosynthesis. However, the discovery of an additional fungicidal mode of action for miconazole has drawn renewed attention to this compound.