Economic impact of epilepsy in the United States.

Purpose: To assess differences in medical care expenditures and informal care received for adults and children by individuals' self-reported epilepsy status and to estimate the total economic impact of epilepsy in the United States.

Methods: Pooled medical expenditure panel survey data from 1996-2004 were used. Children's regression analyses were adjusted for race, sex, general self-reported health status, family size, and age.

Evaluation of pathways for release of Rift Valley fever virus into domestic ruminant livestock, ruminant wildlife, and human populations in the continental United States.

Objective: To evaluate the feasibility for Rift Valley fever virus (RVFV) to enter the continental United States by various routes as well as to identify states in which domestic and wild ruminant and human populations would be most vulnerable to exposure to RVFV.

Study Design: Pathways analysis.

Sample Population: Animals, commodities, and humans transported from RVFV-endemic countries to the continental United States between 2000 and 2005.

Living Well II: a review of progress since 2003.

Epilepsy as an issue for the public health community has a relatively short history in the United States. Not since the 1970s, when Congress established the Commission for the Control of Epilepsy and Its Consequences and the publication of its formal report, "Plan for Nationwide Action on Epilepsy," has significant attention been paid to the public health implications of epilepsy. In fact, until the U.