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More than a decade of China's Belt and Road Initiative has sparked a cottage industry of articles and books on the subject. Grant F. Rhode makes a valuable contribution to [...]

Spyfail: Foreign Spies, Moles, Saboteurs and the Collapse of America's Counterintelligence By James Bamford, Twelve Books, 2023, hardcover, 496 pp. MEB $21.99 James Bamford's Spyfail ruffles all the right feathers. [...]

How I Learned to Speak Israel: An American's Guide to a Foreign Policy Language By Alex McDonald, Green Tree Publishing, LLC, 2021, paperback, 426 pp. MEB $24 Were Ambrose Bierce [...]

AN ISRAELI REAL ESTATE and solar energy giant secretly owns a U.S. solar energy developer and is building solar farms across the state of Virginia. Because it is using shell [...]

Grant F. Smith: I haven't had a chance to introduce the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, co-organizer of this conference. We're an organization that began doing Middle East policy [...]

THIS SUMMER Tobacco Region Revitalization Commission Executive Director Evan Feinman struck a corrupt deal with Virginia Israel Advisory Board (VIAB) Vice Chairman Charles Lessin. Virginians emerged with $210,000 less in [...]

Dale Sprusansky: I would like to introduce Grant Smith of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, a co-sponsor of this event. Grant and his organization are committed to uncovering [...]

Dale Sprusansky: Grant Smith is the director of the Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy--again, the co-sponsor of today's event. He's the author of the 2016 book Big Israel: How [...]

ENERGIX Renewable Energies, Ltd. is an Israeli company accustomed to building out its business on the back of huge subsidies. Overseas, the subsidies take the form of free or Israeli [...]

Architects of Repression: How Israel and its Lobby Put Racism, Violence and Injustice at the Center of U.S. Middle East Policy By Walter L. Hixson, IRmep, 2021, paperback, 250 pp. [...]

ISRAELI-AMERICAN author and human rights activist Miko Peled convened the first of two online webinars under the banner, 'What do they teach our children? Israel's Intervention in American Social Studies [...]

UNDER STRONG pressure from Congress, on July 6 the U.S. Small Business Administration, after consultation with the U.S. Department of Treasury, disclosed information about 4.9 million Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) [...]

SPEAKERS at the March 1-3, 2020 American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) conference claimed 18,000 were in attendance, but the annual gathering took place under a cloud of controversy. AIPAC [...]

ON SEPT. 14, U.S. Undersecretary of State Tom Shannon and Acting Israeli National Security Adviser Jacob Nagel signed a new 10-year memorandum of understanding for $38 billion in U.S. military [...]

B'TSELEM found growing apartheid inside Israel and controlled territories. Given that reality, a 38.1 percent plurality of Americans say Israel should not be a leading U.S. aid recipient. Our upcoming [...]

One of every three members of Congress boarding a jetliner on a privately funded all-expense-paid trip overseas has Israel as their final destination. Only one out of a hundred ever [...]

A white male, aged 10 weeks, presented with a lesion on the left forearm. His mother reported that the lesion, initially suspected to be from trauma, had persisted for two [...]

ISRAELI PRIME MINISTER Binyamin Netanyahu campaigned promising to annex large swaths of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Annexation is included in the new unity agreement between the governing coalition--Likud and Blue [...]

MOST AMERICAN ADULTS of voting age don't appear willing to reject the applicability of international law to Israel's ongoing colonization of occupied territories in East Jerusalem, the West Bank and [...]

Delinda C. Hanley: Once a year, supporters of AIPAC come together for, as Gideon Levy said, a 'drug dealers' conference at the Washington Convention Center, to press for more money [...]

On Oct. 17, 2012 the National Archives Wand Records Administration released long-secret U.S. Justice Department files concerning a decade-long battle to regulate the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) as a [...]

On the morning of Nov. 4, 2009 I headed a four-person delegation to meet with the chief and top officials of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Foreign Agents Registration [...]

ON JUNE 25-26 Jared Kushner orchestrated the 'Peace to Prosperity' economic workshop in Bahrain. Kushner is President Donald Trump's son-in-law and his senior adviser on negotiating a Middle East peace. [...]

STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the safety and efficacy, as well as the economic impact, of outpatient intravenous antibiotic administration using an ambulatory infusion pump. DESIGN: Retrospective analysis of patients treated through a single home care pharmacy. SETTING: General community and skilled nursing facilities of the greater Monterey (California) area. PATIENTS: Ninety-eight consecutive patients with infections requiring parenteral antibiotics, treated outside the acute-care setting and not eligible for traditional intravenous minibag administration. INTERVENTIONS: Patients received intravenous antibiotics either in the home setting (86%) or in skilled nursing facilities (11%) using a Pharmacia Deltec CADD-VT ambulatory infusion device. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Between April 1, 1986, and July 30, 1988, 98 patients received parenteral antibiotics using an infusion pump, and complete data were available on 96 (98%). A total of 109 treatment courses were given over 1,917 treatment days, with a mean duration of theray of 18 days. Twenty-three different infectiosn were treated by the use of 12 separate antibiotics. The most common complications included vein irritation (11%) and the inability to maintain venous access (6.2%). Therapy costs were equivalent to or less than the intravenous minibag system depending on the frequency of antibiotic administration. Eighty percent of patient experienced successful resolution of their infection. CONCLUSIONS: Ambulatory antibiotic infusion pumps can be used safely and effectively in the outpatient setting. Use of these pumps should increase the number of patients eligible for out-of-hospital treatment, resulting in a marked reduction in treatment costs., Intravenous administration of fluids and drugs was begun about 40 years ago, with significant improvement of patient response to treatment. The technique was originally used in hospitals, as invasive procedures may lead to complications such as infection. However, intravenous antibiotic therapy was eventually given on an outpatient basis, especially when long-term treatment was needed. This has proven to be safe, effective, and cost-effective. However, a number of patients are ineligible for treatment, whether due to handicaps, lack of family support, or requirement for frequent therapy. Computerized infusion pumps have become available, chiefly for hospital use, and provide more reliable and accurate therapy. The use of these pumps in an outpatient setting was evaluated with 98 patients (56 male), who were ineligible for regular minibag intravenous therapy due reasons such as age, inappropriate home environment, needle phobias, or residence in a nursing home without continuous registered nursing care. Of these patients, 86 percent used the pumps at home. Intravenous antibiotic therapy was given for an average of 18 days. Infections of wounds, bone, heart lining, soft tissues, and pneumonia were the reasons for treatment. Twenty different organisms were identified from patients' tissues, and 12 antibiotics were used. Twelve patients developed phlebitis (vein inflammation) and had to have the site of the intravenous line altered or where switch to oral antibiotics. Access to veins failed in six cases. Three patients had pain during antibiotic infusion. Pumps failed twice; ear or kidney toxicity each developed once; and one patient developed cellulitis (inflammation of connective tissue such as skin, bone, or cartilage) after refusing to have the intravenous site changed. The cost of antibiotic infusion was less than that of the intravenous minibag method. Infections were completely resolved in 80 percent of cases, while recurrent infections developed in 8.3 percent of cases. The study indicates that patients who previously could not receive intravenous antibiotics as outpatients may be able to do so with infusion pumps in a safe, effective, and cost-saving manner. (Consumer Summary produced by Reliance Medical Information, Inc.)

ON AUG. 8 THIS writer filed a lawsuit in DC federal court challenging U.S. foreign aid to Israel. The U.S. is finalizing a new 10year memorandum of understanding (MOU) which [...]

Diving into historian Michael Oren's Ally: My Journey Across the American-Israeli Divide--his first-ever book written as a personal narrative--initially seems to be an investment with huge potential payoffs. How does [...]

On Sept. 10, 1968 an elite Israeli covert operations team visited the Nuclear Materials and Equipment Corporation (NUMEC) in Apollo, PA at the invitation of its president, Zalman Mordecai Shapiro. [...]

In 1958 Israeli Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion designated super-lobbyist Abraham Feinberg as the North American coordinator to raise funds for Israel's clandestine nuclear weapons program. Feinberg was a natural choice. [...]

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs conducts a survey every two years, and its insights are eagerly awaited by journalists and the public alike. On Sept. 14 the Council released [...]