We test the conjecture that becoming unemployed erodes the extent to which a person acknowledges earned entitlement. We use behavioral experiments to generate incentive-compatible measures of individuals' tendencies to acknowledge earned entitlement and incorporate these experiments in a two-stage study. In the first stage, participants' acknowledgment of earned entitlement was measured by engaging them in the behavioral experiments, and their individual employment status and other relevant socioeconomic characteristics were recorded.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCutaneous adverse reactions to benzodiazepines seem to be rare. We report a 61-year-old man with adverse reactions after ingestion of metamizole, diclofenac, and tetrazepam. Skin prick tests with metamizole, diclofenac, and tetrazepam were negative.
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November 2002
The demographic, clinical and microbiological data of patients with candidemia at the "Hopital Universitario La Fe", a tertiary-care hospital in Valencia, Spain, from 1995 to 1997 was analyzed retrospectively. Candida spp. were isolated in blood cultures from 145 patients, 32% of whom were children (25% of these were neonates).
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April 2002
Reported here are two cases of candidemia caused by Candida lusitaniae that occurred in two immunocompromised patients at Hospital Universitario "La Fe" in Valencia, Spain. Case 1 involved a low-birth-weight premature infant with congenital nephrotic syndrome who was successfully treated with amphotericin B, and case 2 involved a 50-year old woman with a high-grade malignancy lymphoma who succumbed to the infection. Antifungal susceptibility testing of the Candida lusitaniae isolates recovered from both patients revealed sensitivity to amphotericin, 5-flucytosine and fluconazole.
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