Background Ochsner Health System agreed to participate in a nationwide collaboration to
reduce central line infections in our intensive care units. Our outpatient peripherally inserted …

To understand the meaning of the lactate threshold (LT) and to test the hypothesis that
endurance training augments lactate kinetics [ie, rates of appearance and disposal (R a and R d , …

We examine the influence of the cytosolic and membrane-bound contents of carbonic
anhydrase (CA; CAII, CAIII, CAIV, and CAXIV) and the muscle content of proteins involved in …

Because the maintenance of glycemia is essential during prolonged exercise, we examined
the effects of endurance training, exercise intensity, and plasma lactate concentration ([…

Lactate has been shown to be an important oxidative fuel. We aimed to quantify the total lactate
oxidation rate (R ox ) and its direct vs. indirect (glucose that is gluconeogenically derived …

Objective To determine the optimal level of vaccination coverage defined as the level that
minimizes total costs and explore how economic results change with marginal changes to this …

Background The rate of bacterial meningitis declined by 55% in the United States in the early
1990s, when the Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) conjugate vaccine for infants was …

* Law Clerk to Judge Duane Benton, Missouri Supreme Court; JD Yale Law School, 1991. No
paper is written without the author getting extensive support from the people around him or …

In response to the 2007–2009 Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) vaccine shortage in the
United States, we developed a flexible model of Hib transmission and disease for optimizing …

Context In 1999, the US Congress directed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
to conduct a pivotal safety and efficacy study of anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA). Objective …