National interventional council data for the year 2018-India

Publications From the Interventional Council.

The Interventional Council of the ACC was formed to represent the interventionalists who comprise the interventional section of over 5,000 members. This council intends to produce some statements that either clarify or integrate guidelines or address topics not well covered by guidelines. One of those is included in this issue of the journal. I have invited Dr. S. Tanveer Rab to explain the pro...

The Provisional National Council for Mental Health

National Kidney Month — March 2018

294 Exposure to Electronic Cigarette Advertising Among Middle and High School Students — United States, 2014–2016 300 Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Outbreaks and Events — Three Provinces, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2017 306 Emergence of Monkeypox — West and Central Africa, 1970–2017 311 Notes from the Field: False-Negative Hepatitis B Surface Antigen Test Results in a Hemodialysis Patient —...

The year in interventional cardiology.

We are delighted to provide readers of the Journal with this review of major scientific work published in the field of interventional cardiology in 2011, including late-breaking trials presented at the American College of Cardiology, Transcatheter Cardiovascular Therapeutics, European Society of Cardiology, and American Heart Association conferences. We hope that the paper will provide a broad ...

Trouble at the Medical Council of India.

Last month, when India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Ketan Desai, the president of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and president-elect of the World Medical Association, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 20 million Indian rupees from the vice-president of a medical college and hospital in the Punjab state, few in the country’s medical community were surprised. Like the cou...