disasters are one of the most important challenges which must be considered by every management system. higher education centers have high disaster risk because of their risk factors (existence of historical and scientific documents and resources and expensive laboratory equipment in these centers emphasizes the importance of disaster management). moreover, the existence of young volunteers of ...

David J. FitzGerald,* Charlotte M. Fryling,* Alexey Zdanovsky,* Catharine B. Saelinger,* Maria Kounnas, ~ Jeffrey A. Winkles, § Dudley Strickland, ~ and Stephen Lepplall *Laboratory of Molecular Biology, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Biology, Diagnosis and Centers, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892; *Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Cincinnat...

Primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) has emerged as the preferred therapy for acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), as multiple randomized clinical trials and pooled analyses have shown improved clinical outcomes compared with medical reperfusion. Unfortunately, medical centers with 24-hour PCI capability are concentrated in urban areas, relegating many patients ...

Until recently PET scanning has been available only at major universities or teaching hospitals possessing the necessary resources and expertise to operate a research PET facility. Most dedicated PET centers cost several millions of dollars, and include a cyclotron, a radiochemistry laboratory to synthesize PET radiopharmaceuticals, a multicrystal dedicated PET camera, advanced computer f...

Federal authority over clinical laboratories began in 1966 when Medicare independent-laboratory regulations established personnel standards for laboratories that participated in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The following year, Congress enacted the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967, known as ‘tCLIA ‘67,” which required licensure for laboratories testing patients’ specimens in in...

Santica Marcovina, Ronald R. Bowsher, Greg Miller, Myrlene Staten, Gary Myers, Samuel P. Caudill, Scott E. Campbell, Michael W. Steffes for the Insulin Standardization Work Group. 1 Northwest Lipid Metabolism and Diabetes Research Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 2 LINCO Diagnostic Services, St. Charles MO; B2S Consulting, Beech Grove, IN 3 Department of Pathology, Virginia Com...

BACKGROUND Sexually transmitted infections (STI) care in the Netherlands is primarily provided by general practitioners (GPs) and specialized STI centers. STI surveillance is based on data from STI centers, which show increasing numbers of clients. Data from a GP morbidity surveillance network were used to investigate the distribution in the provision of STI care and the usefulness of GP data i...

OBJECTIVE To reevaluate the persistence and stability of previously observed differences between pediatric diabetes centers and to investigate the influence of demography, language communication problems, and changes in insulin regimens on metabolic outcome, hypoglycemia, and ketoacidosis. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS This was an observational cross-sectional international study in 21 centers,...