RIMeL - IJLaM, Vol. 5, N. 3, 2009 (MAF Servizi srl ed.)

Editorial

• 173 - The Healthcare Imperative: lowering costs and improving outcomes: once again Institute of Medicine leads the way

Point

• 178 - Recommendations for the implementation of the international standardization of glycated hemoglobin in Italy
• 184 - Iodine deficiency disorders and methods for determination of urinary iodine concentration

Counterpoint

• 189 - Urinary iodine measurement: index of iodine deficit in the patient or in the population?

Press Review

• 191 - Anti-Pancreatic islet cell antibodies in type I diabetes mellitus and in latent autoimmune diabetes in adults (LADA)

Articles

• 206 - Osmolality in serum and urine samples: calculated or measured?
• 212 - Evaluation of two functional assay in detection of factor V Leiden carriers
• 217 - DICKKOPF-1 protein levels in patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance

Clinical Case

• 222 - A case of drug-induced lupus erythematosus (DILE) in a patient with juvenile idiopathic arthritis in treatment with Adalimumab

Fragments of Medicine History

• 227 - Testing of the efficacy of hypodermoclysis as a treatment of Asiatic cholera during the 1886 epidemic in Venice