Cretins in America.

Electrocardiographic studies in cretins.

There is no direct method of estimating accurately the function of the thyroid gland; so other measures have to be employed in diagnosing thyroid deficiency and in regulating subsequent treatment. Recognition of typical cases of hypothyroidism should not be difficult, but there are borderline cases with slight symptoms that are not so easy to detect. Standard methods of investigation are helpfu...

Slow nerve conduction velocity in cretins.

Moosa, A., and Dubowitz, V. (1971). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 46, 852. Slow nerve conduction velocity in cretins. The ulnar and posterior tibial conduction velocities were measured in 6 untreated and 3 treated cretins. In 4 of the untreated patients, the conduction velocity of both nerves was slower than normal; in 1 patient the ulnar and in the other the posterior tibial nerve conducti...

Lunatics, Idiots, and Cretins in France

Public Diplomacy and its Institutions in United States of America

Although, once, in the far past, sending gifts and missionaries was called a type of public diplomacy, today it is manifested as academic disciplines, policy making institutions, and multi-purpose organizations. The most important institutions of these kinds, now, exist in the US, whose purpose is to promote the politics of this country as Public Diplomacy and to follow local and international ...

Code of Ethics of medical informatics in Asia and America

Nowadays, using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in health care with the aim of creating tools for diagnosing and treating diseases has proposed a new debate on the code of ethics. The raised ethical issues are beyond privacy and security, and have been the most important sources of debate and ethical questions in these professions.