REPORT ON REGISTRATION AFFAIRS

Health Affairs Perspectives On The GMENAC Report

Cancer registration in Pakistan: contemporary state of affairs.

An estimated 7.6 million mortalities were attributed to cancers in 2005 across the globe, and the figures keep mounting. The existing prevalence rate for all reportable cancers is at 25 million, projected to ascend to 30 million around year 2020. Some 70% of these will burden the health care services in under-resourced countries. However, reliable statistics on the incidence, prevalence, mortal...

Report 12 of the Council on Scientific Affairs

The terms "alternative medicine," "complementary medicine," or "unconventional medicine" refer to diagnostic methods, treatments and therapies that appear not to conform to standard medical practice, or are not generally taught at accredited medical schools. The scope of alternative medicine is broad, with widespread use among the American public of a long list of treatments and practices, such...

Report on Registration Systems in American Elections

The decentralization of lists has traditionally made it difficult to make a full accounting of the performance of the election system that would allow local election offices to gauge how well they are doing. Complete reporting of voter registrations, turnout at the precinct and election office level would improve the ability of election offices to diagnose where problems arise and for offices t...

Chair Report for the Academic Affairs Committee

According to the Bylaws of the AACP, the Academic Affairs Committee shall consider any matter relating to the conduct of pharmaceutical education to be within its purview, including but not limited to curriculum, resources, faculty, and students. The committee also considers matters extending beyond pharmaceutical education to higher education, especially those elements concerned with health pr...