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D A Lewis

Publications and source records attributed to D A Lewis.

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PubMed1976

Women and national health insurance: issues and solutions.

An effective national health insurance program should provide adequate, continuous, and comprehensive coverage for all. In framing current proposals, it seems that policy makers have not adequately considered differences in medical care utilization and needs between men and women. The inequities which result occur primarily because women now have two central sources of medical care--an obstetrician/gynecologist and a general practitioner or internist-while men have only one. The article delineates four issues of particular importance to women: 1) eligibility provisions which insure women through their husbands' policies; 2) benefit structures which exclude aspects of reproductive health services and/or fail to explicitly recognize women's two central sources of care; 3) provider certification provisions which exclude free-standing clinics and/or nonphysician personnel, and 4) incentives for reform of health delivery which force women to choose between their two current sources of care. The analysis concludes that current proposals contain provisions which, if enacted, would lead to inequities for women. Alternative solutions which might be explored are discussed and principles which could serve as guidelines for developing specific proposals are presented.

Community Participation↗
PubMed1976

Anti-inflammatory actions of dapsone and its related biochemistry.

Dapsone has been examined by two established animal anti-inflammatory models and found to possess anti-inflammatory activity comparable with established non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. Dapsone also possess some biochemical properties common to other anti-inflammatory drugs.

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PubMed1975

Naturally occurring anti-inflammatory factors in the synovial fluids of patients with rheumatic disease and their possible mode of action.

Evidence has been shown that pathological synovial fluid contained a substance capable of stabilizing rat liver lysosomes which was partly inactivated by treatment with trypsin and by storage. Such synovial fluid also appeared to contain a substance which labilized lysosomes and which was more stable than the stabilizing substance. (2) The lysosomal stabilizing substance described above was nondialysable and migrated electrophoretically with the alpha and beta globulins to which class it has been tentatively ascribed. (3) Pathological synovial fluid contained proteases which were active at acid pH and at neutral pH. It also appeared to contain a substance capable of inhibiting these proteases. (4) Alpha2-Macroglobulin has been detected in pathogenic synovial fluid.

Alpha-Globulins↗