The quest for enhancing agricultural yields due to increased pressure on food production
has inevitably led to the indiscriminate use of chemical fertilizers and other agrochemicals. …

The paper focuses on two estimation methods that have been widely used to address
endogeneity in empirical research in health economics and health services research—two-stage …

Acidobacteria represents an underrepresented soil bacterial phylum whose members are
pervasive and copiously distributed across nearly all ecosystems. Acidobacterial sequences …

Importance Since publication of the report by the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and
Medicine in 1996, researchers have advanced the methods of cost-effectiveness analysis, …

Interleukins 1α and 1β (IL‐1) are very potent signaling molecules that are expressed
normally at low levels, but are induced rapidly in response to local or peripheral insults. IL‐1 …

Background: Information about the effect of the Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Benefit on
drug utilization and expenditures is limited. Objective: To estimate changes in prescription …

There are two broad classes of models used to address the econometric problems caused
by skewness in data commonly encountered in health care applications: (1) transformation to …

Diabetes leads to vascular leakage, glial dysfunction, and neuronal apoptosis within the
retina. The goal of the studies reported here was to determine the role that retinal microglial …

OBJECTIVE We developed a novel population-level model for projecting future direct spending
on diabetes. The model can be used in the federal budget process to estimate the cost …

Background The prevalence of adult obesity exceeds 30% in the United States, posing a
significant public health concern as well as a substantial financial burden. Although the impact …