PPP plan for BMA members.

Turning the BMA into print.

1 Beecher HK. Ethics and clinical research. N EnglJ Med 1966;274:1354-60.2 Anonymous. Experimental medicine [Editorial]. BMJ 1962;ii: 1108. 3 BearD AG, Billing BH, Sherlock S. Hepatic glucose output and hepatic insulin sensitivity in diabetes mellitus. Lancet 1951;ii:698. 4 Beecher HK. Experimentation on man. Springfield, Illinois: Thomas, 1959. 5 Southam CM. Hormotransplantation of human cell ...

The first BMA Gold Medal.

The BMA in agony.

The BMA suffered agonies last week. And the chairman of its council, Dr Jeremy Lee-Potter, suffered even more. Why the agony and will anything be learnt? Even before the annual representative meeting (the supreme policy making body of the association) had opened in Inverness last week a whispering campaign had begun. It said that Dr Lee-Potter (attending his first such meeting as chairman of co...

Health plan members' views about disclosure of medical errors.

BACKGROUND Various authorities and national organizations encourage disclosing medical errors, but there is little information on how patients respond to disclosure. OBJECTIVE To examine how the type of error, severity of adverse clinical outcome, and level of disclosure affect patients' responses to error and disclosure. DESIGN Mail questionnaire survey (8 versions were developed) varying ...

Bma: Visual Tool for Modeling and Analyzing Biological Networks

BioModel Analyzer (bma) is a tool for modeling and analyzing biological networks. Designed with a lightweight graphical user interface, the tool facilitates usage for biologists with no previous knowledge in programming or formal methods. The current implementation analyzes systems to establish stabilization. The results of the analysis— whether they be proofs or counterexamples—are represented...