Population-Level Alcohol Consumption and Homicide Rates in Latin America: A Fixed Effects Panel Analysis, 1961-2019.

Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) possesses 8 per cent of the global population but approximately one-third of global homicides. The region also exhibits high per capita alcohol consumption, risky drinking patterns and a heterogeneous mix of beverage preferences. Despite this, LAC violence receives limited attention in the English-language literature and there are no studies of the population-level alcohol-homicide association in the region.

[Comparison of prescriptions by pediatricians and general practitioners: a population-based study in Franche-Comté from the database of Regional Health Insurance Fund].

Objectives: To compare the medical management of children by private pediatricians or by general practitioners.

Population And Methods: A retrospective cohort study analyzed information from the automated database of the Regional Health Insurance Fund for salaried workers in Franche-Comté from January 2001 through December 2002 and compared the mean rates of prescriptions in the populations seen only by general practitioners or mainly by pediatricians.

Results: Analysis concerned 1 535 208 visits (office and home).

Complete absence of serum alpha-1-antitrypsin in conjunction with an apparently normal gene structure.

A family in which a Pinull allele for alpha-1-antitrypsin (A-1-AT) segregates has been studied in detail. Two homozygous sisters have no detectable A-1-AT in their serum as measured with the most sensitive methods currently available. Both have airways obstruction, and one has bullous emphysema.

Ventilation-perfusion alterations induced by fiberoptic bronchoscopy.

Pulmonary perfusion (Q) and ventilation (V) scintiphotography was performed in 16 patients undergoing diagnostic fiberoptic bronchoscopic examinations. Regional V/Q did not change in the majority of the patients who developed hypoxemia after bronchoscopic studies. An improvement in V/Q was detectable in the patients with a rise in arterial oxygen pressure (PaO2) after bronchoscopic examination, and this rise was associated in most with the removal of mucous plugs or extensive secretions.