The American Hospital Association [6] (AHA), joined by the American Medical Association [7] (AMA), brought the suit against the US Department of Health and Human Services [8] (HHS) and its then-director Otis R. Bowen [9], to have a series of requirements for neonatal care struck down. These requirements?the first set of Baby Doe Rules?were created by the HHS and US President Ronald Reagan's Adm...

Sixty-nine patients with multiple myeloma diagnosed during a five year period at the Belfast City Hospital were followed until death or for a minimum of one year in a retrospective study of survival. Although the patients were unselected, survival data was found to be similar to results from trials in which patient selection had occurred. Overall median survival was thirty-two months. Median su...

The shadow of Kraepelin stands over psychosis nosology like a colossus. The reason is that Kraepelin made an attempt to systematize diagnosis in a rational, pathophysiological manner. But, to this day, no one has done better. The tragedy is that one can say of Kraepelin that the measure of his stature is the extent to which his infl uence has delayed progress since his death. With such a judgme...

OBJECTIVES To describe the epidemiology of childhood tuberculosis in Wales and to assess the standard of management of patients with tuberculosis. DESIGN Retrospective study of data retrieved from case notes and review of radiographs of all identified patients. SUBJECTS Forty eight cases of tuberculosis and 10 of tuberculosis chemoprophylaxis in children under 15 years of age, in Wales, bet...

When Ottawa’s starting pistol was fired in the snow blizzards of November 1986, who would have thought that the health promotion race would have sped so long and so hard without roads? Across the world, there are government health promotion strategies and reviews, statutory authorities and foundations, consumer interest groups, professional associations and journals. University departments and ...

Soil organic carbon (SOC) is an essential property of soil, and understanding its spatial patterns critical to vegetation management, soil degradation, environmental issues. This study applies a framework using remote sensing data digital mapping techniques examine the spatiotemporal dynamics SOC for Yazd-Ardakan Plain, Iran, from 1986 2016. Here, conditioned Latin hypercube sampling method was...