OBJECTIVE To assess the availability of essential drugs and the perceptions of clients on drugs situation in the primary health centres of Tafa Local Government Area, north central Nigeria. METHODS Checklist consisting of minimum drugs expected in a generic primary health centre developed by the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) was adopted and used to assess drugs avai...

E d it o ri a l With the passing of the Children Act 2004 in England, I am led to dwell on the process of policy development. This is the third major shake-up I have witnessed. The first was the Children and Young Persons Act 1969 which sought a better balance between welfare and justice for troubled children. The second was the Children Act 1989 that combined public and private law, provided a...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Şükrü Akyüz, Tıbbıye Cad. No: 23, Siyami Ersek Göğüs ve Kalp Damar Cerrahisi Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, İstanbul-Türkiye Phone: +90 532 340 74 72 Fax: +90 216 444 52 57 E-mail: [email protected] Available Online Date: 09.04.2015 ©Copyright 2015 by Turkish Society of Cardiology Available online at www.anatoljcardiol.com DOI:10.5152/akd.2015.6241 Diagnosti...

Toe above question is asked by Dr. M. Poster in the last edition of his text-book of physiology, and as the weight of evidence appears to favour the idea that the liver is the chief organ concerned in producing these changes in the products of decomposition of nitrogenous matter resulting in the formation of urea, I would feel obliged by your publishing the following observations, which appear ...

T his column is all about middleware, and ultimately, middleware is all about integration. Middleware has existed in various forms for many years in systems such as the IBM Customer Information Control System (CICS), numerous message queuing systems such as IBM’s MQ Series, the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (Corba), Microsoft’s Component Object Model (COM), Java 2 Enterprise Edition...

To the Editor: As an advocate for patient safety and for the introduction of appropriate monitoring technology into perioperative practice, I read the recent article by Taenzer et al. with anticipation. Unfortunately, the conclusions reached by the authors do not appear to be supported by the evidence provided in the article. Specifically, the authors conclude “our results demonstrate that cont...