… Shapiro is a doctoral student in clinical psychology, University of Arizona, Tucson. Dr. …
Shapiro and colleagues 17 reported no change in state anxiety levels (a measure of current anxiety…

Laboratory diagnostic tests are central in the practice of modern medicine. Common uses
include screening a specific population for evidence of disease and confirming or ruling out a …

… We applied recently developed techniques for the meta-analysis of diagnostic tests’,’ in an
attempt to summarize the available information on the accuracy of screening mammography. …

Background and Methods A placebo-controlled trial has shown that treatment with zidovudine
reduces the rate at which human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) is transmitted from …

Objective Previous research has demonstrated a deficit in the ability to recognize emotions
in alexithymic individuals. The repressive coping style is thought to preferentially impair the …

In a collaboration of 7 European and United States prospective studies, 44 cases of vertical
human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) transmission were identified among 1202 …

Background Some studies suggest that combination antiretroviral therapy in pregnant
women with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection increases the risk of …

Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves have seen increasing use to assess the
accuracy of diagnostic tests that yield continuous test results. We can calculate a fully non‐…

Background Randomized-trial data on the risks and benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART)
as compared with zidovudine and single-dose nevirapine to prevent transmission of the …

ContextWith the success of zidovudine chemoprophylaxis for prevention of perinatal transmission
of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), an increasing number of HIV-exposed but …