Risky Teen Driving in a Rural Southern State.

Objective: Alabama is one of the five US states with the highest teen driving mortality. We recruited teen drivers to participate in a questionnaire regarding high-risk driving behaviors.

Methods: Teens were recruited from a large county school system to participate in a voluntary anonymous survey.

Bioavailability of (+)-methamphetamine in the pigeon following an intramuscular dose.

Pigeons are used frequently as subjects in behavioral pharmacology research. An advantage of the pigeon is an exceedingly vascular breast muscle, which is easily accessible for injections. The purpose of these studies was to provide a profile of the pharmacokinetics of (+)-methamphetamine (METH) and (+)-amphetamine (AMP), a pharmacologically active metabolite, in pigeons (n=6) after intramuscular (i.

Evaluation of a portable clinical analyzer in the pediatric emergency department: analysis of cost and turnaround time.

Background: The objective of this study was to evaluate a portable clinical analyzer (PCA) in the pediatric emergency department (ED), examining (1) turnaround time, (2) cost, and (3) sample amounts for PCA versus standard laboratory.

Methods: Twenty children were studied. Laboratory measurements were taken from the study group using PCA and central laboratory as the control.