Participation during a Pandemic: Forging New Pathways

Globalization of Nursing Profession During a New Pandemic

Forging a New Relationship with ABNM Diplomates.

T he mission of the American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM) is to assure the public of high-quality patient care by establishing standards for training, initial certification, and continuing competence of physicians providing nuclear medicine diagnostic and therapeutic services. Under the existing system, the first contact physicians have with the ABNM is the certification exam. Graduates of ...

Searching PubMed during a Pandemic

BACKGROUND The 2009 influenza A(H1N1) pandemic has generated thousands of articles and news items. However, finding relevant scientific articles in such rapidly developing health crises is a major challenge which, in turn, can affect decision-makers' ability to utilise up-to-date findings and ultimately shape public health interventions. This study set out to show the impact that the inconsiste...

Forging new perspectives on disease surveillance.

Levels of Ag8 in cultural media varied considerably depending on periods of cultivation of bacteria. Additionally, the level of Ag8 varied among strains of B. pseudomallei and B. mallei. Among 61 strains of B. pseudomallei from the museum collection (most of which were isolated in Southeast Asia and northern Australia), three had increased ability to produce Ag8. These strains had been isolated...

A new pandemic--loan bilking.