A part of this work was supported by ‘Japan Advanced Molecular Imaging Program (J-AMP)’, and grant-inaid for Young Scientists (B) (22790836) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT), Japan, a grant-in-aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan, and a grant-in-aid for Compreh...

Introduction To improve health and well-being of people with rare diseases and to implement the Council Recommendation of the European Union on rare diseases the German Federal Ministry of Health, in cooperation with the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the National Alliance of Patient Groups for Rare Diseases, has initiated a national action league for people with rare diseases N...

Zhanna kalmatayeva, Ainur Zholamanova: School of Public Health, Ministry of Health, Republic of Kazakhstan. Correspondence address: [email protected] Acknowledgements: We are grateful to the physicians in the Polyclinic No. 12, Almaty and the Central City’s Polyclinic, Kaskelen, Republic of Kazakhstan for assistance in the selection of patients to this study. We are also grateful to Dr Zhanna Kalmat...

The Ministry of Health Clinical Practice Guidelines for Depression were prepared and distributed to all doctors in Singapore in early 2004. This article highlights salient points and discusses pharmacotherapy, psychotherapy and psychoeducation in managing cases of depression. Assessment of suicide risk is elaborated upon, although this was not discussed in the guidelines. The learning points wi...

Since 2007, all Romanian hospital discharges are validated based on the clinical data sent by hospitals. Consequently, the Ministry of Health developed a set of indicators, in order to evaluate the hospital management performance. This evaluation was first done in 2008, based on the new legal regulations that introduced Hospital Management Contracts between hospital managers and Ministry of Hea...

The Indian health minister, Jagat Prakash Nadda, has formed a committee with officials from the ministries of health, civil aviation, and immigration to check that all airports in the country are adhering to guidelines on quarantining people with suspected Ebola virus disease. The committee will report to the government in a week. A statement from the government said that Nadda emphasised the i...

The Ministry of Health (MOH) has published clinical practice guidelines on Bipolar Disorder to provide doctors and patients in Singapore with evidence-based guidance on the management of bipolar disorders. This article reproduces the introduction and executive summary (with recommendations from the guidelines) from the MOH clinical practice guidelines on Bipolar Disorder, for the information of...

1 Key Laboratory of Medical Molecular Virology of Ministry of Education/Health, Scientific Research Center, Shanghai Public Health Clinical Center & Institutes of Biomedical Sciences, Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2 Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Washington, DC, Un...

Background Indonesia comprises 17,000 islands and 495 districts. Decentralization mandates district health services, but ensuring proper supply chain management (SCM) capacity at the district level is a challenge. The ministry of health developed and implemented SCM training modules and guidelines; however, weaknesses in the system remain, particularly related to human resources. The ministry i...