in Malawi Sarah E. Rutstein; Mina Hosseinipour MD, MPH; Alice Soko; Memory Mkandawire; Eva Stein; Charles Mclendon; Deborah Kamwendo; Mary Kadiwa; Eldee Paladar; Abdoulaye Sarr; Sundeep Gupta MD, MPH; Frank Chimbwandira; Reuben Mwenda; Ronald Mataya, MD; Department of Health Policy and Management, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC; University of North Carolina Project...

Data centers, hosting centers, and Internet companies typically rely on large clusters of computers to interface with users and store data. The computational, networking, and cooling infrastructures of these organizations consume significant amounts of power and energy. Research on power and energy conservation for these systems can have several benefits. In this paper, we motivate this researc...

In the development of primate research, Dr. Eyestone plans to encourage establishment of two primate research centers, at locations to be selected in the near future. Two million dollars has been earmarked for the program, and further expansion is contemplated, including development of breeding centers. Dr. Eyestone, who became a PHS Commissioned Officer in May, 1959, came to NIH in 1949 as a v...

objectives: the iranian cancer network was established in may 2003. our aim was to coordinate re search and treatment programs in all cancer centers in iran in order to save time and money and enable patients, wherever they live, to receive a uniformly high-standard treatment and care. methods: after signing a mutual contract with fellow (collaborator) university and holding some shared session...

The Second Year of Life project of the Global Health Security Agenda aims to improve immunization systems and strengthen measles and rubella surveillance, including building laboratory capacity. A new laboratory assessment tool was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to assess the national laboratory in Ghana to improve molecular surveillance for measles and rubella. Res...

BACKGROUND Diagnostic tests are recommended for suspected malaria cases before treatment, but comparative performance of microscopy and rapid diagnostic tests (RDTs) at rural health centers has rarely been studied compared to independent expert microscopy. METHODS Participants (N = 1997) with presumptive malaria were recruited from ten health centers with a range of transmission intensities i...

PURPOSE This study aimed to compare the perception of the academic learning environment between medical laboratory science students and nursing students at Saint Louis University, Baguio City, Philippines. METHODS A cross-sectional survey research design was used to measure the perceptions of the participants. A total of 341 students from the Department of Medical Laboratory Science, School o...

For the past 40 years, the Toxoplasma Serology Laboratory at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation Research Institute (TSL-PAMFRI) has been dedicated to the laboratory diagnosis of Toxoplasma gondii infection and toxoplasmosis. TSL-PAMFRI is the "brain child" of Jack S. Remington. Jack's ceaseless devotion to objectivity and uncompromising excellence has made TSL-PAMFRI the Toxoplasma reference labo...

Medical wastes include all infectious waste, hazardous (including low-level radioactive) wastes, and any other wastes that are generated from all types of health care institutions, including hospitals, clinics, doctor (including dental and veterinary) offices, and medical laboratories (42). 1 The main focus of concern has been on the portion of medical wastes that are defined as infectious, and...

The National Health Information Standards Committee was established in 2004 in Korea. The practical subcommittee for laboratory test terminology was placed in charge of standardizing laboratory medicine terminology in Korean. We aimed to establish a standardized Korean laboratory terminology database, Korea-Logical Observation Identifier Names and Codes (K-LOINC) based on former products sponso...