BACKGROUND The shortage of doctors and maldistribution among specialties are of great concern in the Japanese health care system. This study investigated specialty preference in medical students of one university, and examined gender differences and compared their preference with real needs. METHODS We conducted a self-administered questionnaire including specialty preference in all students ...

Abstract Inclusive trade is taking hold in various forms international organizations and the policy of national governments. Absent empirical evidence that will take time to generate, it can be difficult assess achievements this new approach trade. Nancy Fraser's three justice idioms provide a conceptual entry point for evaluating potential inclusive agenda. Fraser argues contemporary global co...

Many children with cystic fibrosis (CF), receiving modern, aggressive CF care, have normal spirometry results. This study aimed to see if homogeneity of ventilation distribution is impaired early in the course of CF lung disease, and if ventilation inhomogeneity is a more frequent finding than abnormal spirometry in children benefiting from modern CF care. The study compared spirometry findings...

INTRODUCTION Cyclase-associated protein 2 (CAP2) plays a major role in regulating the actin cytoskeleton. Since inactivation of CAP2 in a mouse model by a gene trap approach (Cap2 (gt/gt) ) results in cardiomyopathy and increased mortality, we hypothesized that CAP2 has a major impact on arrhythmias and electrophysiological parameters. MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed long-term-ECG recording...

Inherent in the remote organ injury caused by sepsis is a profound maldistribution of microvascular blood flow. Using a 24-h rat cecal ligation and perforation model of sepsis, we studied O(2) transport in individual capillaries of the extensor digitorum longus (EDL) skeletal muscle. We hypothesized that erythrocyte O(2) saturation (SO(2)) levels within normally flowing capillaries would provid...