Original Article

State Health Mapper: An Interactive, Web-Based Tool for Physician Workforce Planning, Recruitment, and Health Services Research

Objectives: Health rankings in Mississippi are abysmal. Mississippi also has fewer physicians to serve its population compared with all other states. Many residents of this predominately rural state do not have access to healthcare providers. To better understand the demographics and distribution of the current health workforce in Mississippi, the…

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Original Article

Changing Age Distribution of Melanoma Patients: A 22-Year, Single-Site Perspective

Objectives: To investigate possible changes in the demographics of patients with melanoma during a period of 22 years in one dermatopathology practice. Methods: We performed a retrospective review of 1835 cases of in situ and invasive melanomas histologically diagnosed between 1989 and 2010 in a private dermatopathology laboratory in Norfolk,…

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Review Article

The Distribution of Brown Recluse Spiders in the Southeastern Quadrant of the United States in Relation to Loxoscelism Diagnoses

Abstract:The southern and eastern margins of the range of the brown recluse spider run through the southeastern quadrant of the United States. Populations vary from abundant in states such as Arkansas and west and central Kentucky and Tennessee to absent in the Atlantic seaboard states. The diagnosis of loxoscelism should…

Posted in: brown recluse spider 2 distribution 3 envenomation 4 Loxosceles reclusa 2
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