Background: Over one million Francophone Canadians live in official language minority communities (OLMC) outside of Québec. Availability and accessibility linguistically appropriate care to these OLMCs is lacking, resulting poorer quality care. To help address this health equity gap, the FrancoDoc program was created 2015 identify Francophone/Francophile medical students enrolled at faculties t...

Abstract. Together with the latent heat stored in glacial ice sheets, ocean uptake carries lion's share of glacial–interglacial changes planetary content, but little direct information on global mean temperature (MOT) is available to constrain response climate perturbations. Using ratios noble gases and molecular nitrogen trapped Antarctic EPICA Dome C core, we are able reconstruct MOT for peak...

The use of petro-lubricants in metal forming leads to lamination oxide on the extrudates due temperature increase and reaction base with some elements lubricant, hence resulting poor surface quality end product. non-biodegradability these lubricants also environmental pollution. Although De-oiled Jatropha Caked has been volarised for so many applications, oil left cake it can still be employed ...

With the completion and the success of the unraveling of the human and some nonhuman genetic codes comes the optimism that science, once again, is at the threshold of transforming human existence in an unprecedented way. The sequencing of the human genome with the science and technology by which it occurs is seen as a potential gateway to man's final conquest of most of the health and health re...

Since the 2001 election there have been stark changes in the fortunes of the leader of the Labour Party and in the personnel leading the Conservatives. Of the main national parties only the leadership of the Liberal Democrats was relatively stable in terms of public perceptions and occupancy, and even Charles Kennedy had his share of negative publicity relating primarily to his social life and ...

This paper contains first systematical revision of the results on traditional use of wild medicinal and aromatic herbs on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H)--west of Balkan Peninsula; Southeast of Europe. There have been detected 227 plants belonging to 71 different plant families, which are being used with ethno therapeutic purpose. Results were obtained by method of open ethno bota...

Frequent visitors to the website, Rotten Tomatoes, may be surprised to discover that a movie with a 15% positive rating is not necessarily better reviewed than than one which gets, say, 45% positive. This is because dichotomizing reviews as either just good or bad, period, discards lots of information. A strong consensus that a film is not great (say, mostly C-) will result in a low percentage ...

50 MANAGED CARE / APRIL 2016 Drug prices will rise at least 5% annually from now until 2020, according to a survey of top pharmacists in the United States. In fact, 89% of the 134 pharmacists* who responded to the survey by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists called this possibility “very likely,” the highest percentage for that response to any of the 56 survey items. The survey, ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy of 2 ceruminolytic products, Cerumenex Eardrops (Purdue Frederick Company, Norwalk, Conn) and Murine Ear Drops (Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, Ill), in subjects with partial or complete occlusion of the ear canal due to cerumen. DESIGN Randomized, subject- and observer-blind, placebo-controlled, clinical trial. SETTING Corporate research clinic. PARTI...