Altering the Medicare policy on injectable drugs is one way to reduce Medicare expenditures. Allowing self-administration will also free up hospital and clinic capacity for other patients.

This article focuses on three early cases of the Arab Spring — Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco — to discuss causes and likely outcomes, gender dynamics, prospects for genuine democratization, and the connection between feminist movements and democratization. A comparative and international perspective highlights similarities and differences across the Arab cases and between the Arab Spring and other "democracy waves."

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By Karen E. Hoffman, Jiangong Niu, Sharon H…

By Bruce Y. Lee, Kristina M. Bacon, Maria Elena Bottazzi and Peter J. Hotez

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Background: As Chagas disease…

The evolution of revenue efficiency of national oil companies (NOCs) is examined using data on 61 oil companies from 2001-09. Published by The Energy Journal.

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Kingpin strategies— the targeting of the top-levels of terrorist or drug trafficking organization hierarchies—…

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With a new year and a new administration in Mexico we can expect continuity in substantive policy and…

Despite the political nature of stem cell research, this area of science continues to flourish in the United States. In 2011, the NIH funded approximately US$1.2 billion in stem cell research — a steady increase from past years — with US$123 million devoted to human embryonic stem cells. According to the ISI Web of Science, more than 4,000 U.S.-authored stem cell publications were produced in 2011, accounting for approximately 38 percent of the world total. Approximately one-quarter of these publications were collaborations with authors from other countries.

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At the end of the day, there is no handbook for…

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The aim of the study is to assess the validity of three measures of illness severity (prior year's hospital…