Although weight-loss programs appear to result in significant short-term improvements in health, (1-3) only a small percentage (less than 25%) of individuals actually maintain their lowered weight over substantial time periods during the post-loss follow-up period. (4-6) As a result of widespread relapsing, a large percentage of dieters attempt numerous dieting programs and experience repetitive bouts of short-term weight loss followed by subsequent weight regain.

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A complete history is important for the solution of blood bank typing problems and, with the increasing numbers of transplantation procedures, a patient's history may include transplantation at major medical centers with a subsequent return to the local community hospital.

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Alfredo Alonso sat on the edge of the rumpled bed tucked in one corner of his Northern Manhattan apartment. He was facing the altar and wearing ceremonial garb: white cotton fabric swaddling his head, colorful beads around his neck.

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"Qualified lead" is a phrase most often whispered at healthcare IT trade shows. It is what every vendor in every exhibit hall across America wants from the flow and ebb of conference attendee traffic through the exhibit hall.

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In Solitary Sex Thomas Laqueur aims to provide a comprehensive explanation for the anxiety over masturbation which gripped the western world from the early eighteenth to the mid-(or perhaps late) twentieth century.

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