American Medical Systems

Instead, Pfizer continued to expand its hospital-product activities. It spent 115 million to acquire American Medical Systems, which eventually accounted for about a quarter of Pfizer s total healthcare sales. At the same time, Pfizer moved to prune its nonpresciiption healthcare lines by divesting its clinical laboratories and its diagnostic imaging and dental equipment businesses. By 1989 the company s human healthcare sales had risen from 54 percent to 64 percent of total sales. (Of these 64 percent, 26 percent was from hospital supplies.) Of the remaining 46 percent of sales, 11 percent derived from consumer products and the rest were about equally divided among animal health and specialty chemicals. ... 

CT blood pool imaging experiments were performed in rabbits and rats. Animals were anesthetized throughout the entire experiments, and the micelle biodistribution was studied during 3 hours following administration of 170 mg I/kg. CT images were acquired at certain times on Toshiba 900 S/xII CT scanner (Toshiba American Medical Systems, Tustin CA). 

Beck, Aaron T., A. J. Rush, B. F. Shaw and G. Emery, Cognitive Therapy of Depression, New York Guilford, 1979 Beecher, H. K., The Powerful Placebo , Journal of the American Medical Association 159, no. 17 (1955) 1602-06 Benedetti, Fabrizio, C. Arduino and M. Amanzio, Somatotopic Activation of Opioid Systems by Target-Directed Expectations of Analgesia , Journal of Neuroscience 19 (1999) 3639-48... 

American Association of Retired Persons American Health Care Association American Hospital Association American Medical Association American Nurses Association American Pharmaceutical Association American Society of Health-System Pharmaeists American Society for Healthcare Risk Management Department of Veterans Affairs Food and Drug Administration Generic Pharmaceutical Industry Association Institute for Safe Medication Practices... 

The role of the CRC is identical to that of European or American counterparts, or may be of more complex nature because of the complicated Japanese GCP and medical system. Many professional bodies, some backed up by regulatory body and academia, provide training courses for CRCs and recent statistics showed the number of trainee has exceeded 5000 and activities of... 

Castells X, Casas M, Vildal X, Bosch R, Roncero C, Ramos-Quiroga JA Capella D (2007) Efficacy of central nervous system stimulant treatment for cocaine dependence a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled clinical trials. Addiction, 102, 1871-87 Chaisson RE, Bacchetti P, Osmond D, Brodie B, Sande MA Moss AR (1989). Cocaine use and HIV infection in intravenous drug users in San Francisco. Journal of the American Medical Association, 261, 561-5 Chapleo CB Walter DS (1997). The bupre-norphine-naloxone combination product. Research and Clinical Forums, 19, 55-8 Cheskin LJ, Fudala PJ Johnson RE (1994). A controlled comparison of buprenorphine and clonidine for acute detoxification from opioids. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 36, 115-21... 

Professional pharmacy and medical organizations [e.g., the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), the National Community Pharmcists Association (NCPA), and the American Medical Association (AMA)] and health care organizations [e.g., the American Diabetes Association (ADA) or the American Heart Association (AHA)] also provide valuable information about many health conditions and value-added services. This information is important not only in the development of a service but also in justifying the need for a service with consumers and administrators. These organizations also provide treatment guidelines and additional resources that can be used when developing an operations plan for a service (see Chapter 25). 

International Health Systems A ChartbookPerspective, 2nd ed. American Medical Association, Chicago, 1995. 

Despite opposition by the American Medical Associahon (AMA) and others over the course of 3 years. Congress passed the HMO Act of 1973. Certain restrictive features of the HMO Act of 1973 limited its immediate impact on the U.S. health care system. The original legislation defined federally qualified HMOs, required armual open enrollment periods, assured quality standards, required that certain employers offer indemnity as well as HMO insurance, mandated equal employer contributions to indemnity and HMO insurance coverage, and provided grants to initiate the creation... 

Lober, W. B., Karras, B. T., Wagner, M. M., Overhage, J. M., Davidson, A. J., Fraser, H., et al. (2002). Roundtable on bioterrorism detection Information system-based surveillance [Electronic version]. Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 9, 105-115. 

In 1994, the ASHP, the American Medical Association (AMA), and the American Nurses Association (ANA) generated the following system of recommendations to prevent ADRs in health care systems ... 

The specific educational disciplines of health service researchers are reflected in the wide variety of journals that now publish health research manuscripts. Journals that are devoted entirely to HSR include Medical Care, published by the American Public Health Association Health Services Research, the official journal of the Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy (formerly known as the Association for Health Services Research) and the Journal of Health Services Research and Policy, published by the Royal Society of Medicine, Ltd. Many specialized journals are beginning to publish work based on health services research. For example. Journal of Health Economics, American Journal of Public Health, American Journal of Medical Quality, and American Journal of Epidemiology will accept manuscripts based on HSR projects. Prominent clinical journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and Journal of the American Medical Association are also increasing the number of publications of HSR projects. Pharmacy journals also contain some HSR articles, including the American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, Annals of Pharmacotherapy, and Pharmacotherapy. 

Clinical pharmacokinetics began to be recognized in the 1970s, especially in two papers by Gibaldi and Levy, Pharmacokinetics in Clinical Practice, in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1976 (25). Of further importance that same year was a paper by Koup et al. (26) on a system for the monitoring and dosing of theophylline based on pharmacokinetic principles. 

American Journal of Managed Care. Jamesburg, NJ American Medical Publishing. Monthly. ISSN 1088-0224. Original, peer-reviewed clinical studies that emphasize healthcare outcomes, clinical- and cost-effectiveness, new technologies, quality management and clinical information systems, physician and patient behavior, and health policy. 

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