Healthcare: affordable quality coverage for all.

The quality of medical care available in the United States is the best in the world. However, today's American healthcare delivery system is unacceptable. It is too expensive, disjointed, and wasteful.

Early reactions to frustration: developmental trends in anger, individual response styles, and caregiving risk implications in infancy.

Problem: In an effort to examine early negative emotional response patterns, infant responses to frustration were studied with specific regard to anger.

Methods: Forty infants, 7-9 months (n = 20) and 12-14 months (n = 20) old, were observed in laboratory play situations. Infant affective response as well as maternal behavior were observed.

Long-term patency of the right internal mammary artery used as a coronary bypass conduit and the effect of the recipient vessel.

This study reviewed our experience with the long-term patency of the right internal mammary coronary artery (RIMA) bypass graft in 58 patients over 1 year. Thirty-one percent (n = 18) of patients had obstructive lesions in the RIMA. In vessels with any lesion, the percent stenosis was 85.

Fibrin glue in pulmonary resection: a prospective, randomized, blinded study.

Background: In contrast to the rare large-airway bronchopleural fistulas after lung resection, peripheral or alveolar air leaks (AAL) are very common, often prolong hospital stay, increase utilization of resources, and on occasion result in significant morbidity. Various adjuncts have been used in attempts to reduce AAL. One of these, the topical application of fibrin glue, has to date failed to demonstrate efficacy in small clinical trials.

Fatal invasive gastric mucormycosis occurring with emphysematous gastritis: case report and literature review.

Emphysematous gastritis is an often lethal, rare clinical entity referring to air bubbles in the wall of the stomach produced by gas-forming bacteria. Invasive gastrointestinal mucormycosis is an unusual clinical presentation of this invasive fungal disease. We report the first case of invasive gastric mucormycosis occurring with emphysematous gastritis, and review the literature regarding both of these clinical entities.