Survival among lung cancer patients: comparison of the U.S. military health system and the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) program by health insurance status.

Purpose: The U.S. military health system (MHS) provides beneficiaries with universal health care while health care access varies in the U.

Survival among Breast Cancer Patients: Comparison of the U.S. Military Health System with the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program.

Introduction: Accessibility to health care is important to cancer survival. The U.S.

Comparative study of survival among small cell lung cancer patients in the U.S. military health system and those in the surveillance, epidemiology, and end results (SEER) program.

Purpose: The U.S. military health system provides universal health care access to beneficiaries.

Evaluation of the impact of passive smoke on arterial elasticity via echo-tracking technology in a rabbit model.

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the elasticity of the abdominal aorta in passively smoking rabbits using echo-tracking technology and pathologic examination.

Methods: Fifty-four male New Zealand White rabbits were randomly divided into a passive smoking group and a normal control group. The elasticity indicators for the abdominal aorta of the rabbits were measured by means of echo tracking, which was performed before and 1, 2, and 3 months after passive smoking.

The Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Act of the People's Republic of China: an awareness assessment among workers at foreign-invested enterprises.

The Occupational Disease Prevention and Control Act (ODPC-Act) of the People's Republic of China came into effect on May 1, 2002. Given the scope of foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) in China and an unabated increasing trend of foreign investment, compliance with the ODPC-Act among FIEs is of particular interest, yet little is known. The extent to which an employer educates its workforce to understand the ODPC-Act may be a measure of an employer's compliance.