Ada P., eight years old, was brought to me by her mother, in the summer of 1889, for medical advice concerning an affection described as " going down." The child during the past twelve months had been subject to being compelled to bend down sideways, sometimes to the left, sometimes to the right, less frequently backwards and also forwards. The movements occurred once, twice, three times, and n...

NMR solution structure of the reduced form of thioredoxin 1 from Sacharomyces cerevisiae Anderson Sá Pinheiro, Gisele Cardoso Amorim, Luis Eduardo Soares Netto, Fábio C.L. Almeida, and Ana Paula Valente* 1 Centro Nacional de Ressonância Magnética Nucelar Jiri Jonas, Instituo de Bioquı́mica Médica, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro-RJ, Brasil 2 Instituto de Biologia, Universi...

Caring for patients with diabetes mellitus requires addressing many issues beyond glycemic control. To help physicians provide optimal care for these patients, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) releases annual revisions to its clinical practice recommendations for standards of medical care. The recommendations include screening, diagnostic, and therapeutic actions that have been shown or ...

PURPOSE In a 2011 survey sponsored by the American Nurses Association (ANA), nurses identified the acute and chronic effects of stress and overwork as one of their two top safety and health concerns. DESIGN/METHODS A review of the literature was conducted to investigate the impact that job stress has on the health and safety of nursing professionals and the role that working conditions and jo...

Our Editor–in–Chief Prof. Ana Marušić won the prestigious Meritorious Award from the Council of Science Editors. Prof. Marušić received the Meritorious Award from the Council of Science Editors (CSE) at its 2016 Annual Meeting in Denver, Colorado, USA. The CSE is an international membership organization for editorial professionals publishing in the sciences, serving the scientific, scientific p...

Economists have long used state-collected discharge data to construct Hirschman-Herfindahl (HH) indices measuring hospital competition. Since data are collected to determine the facility providing the service rather than ownership, the difference between the number of reporting facilities and the number of competitors has grown over time due to mergers and networking activities. Consequently, t...

Preview ©Austrian Pharmacological Society (APHAR), 2013 Joint Meeting of the Austrian Neuroscience Association (13 ANA Meeting) and the Austrian Pharmacological Society (19 Scientific Symposium of APHAR) Vienna, Austria, 16–19 September 2013

FirstRand decided on the AMA not only because of the capital savings that could be obtained, but also to achieve world-class, sophisticated risk management using state-of-theart technology and techniques. The use of an AMA requires the implementation of various risk management processes, subprojects and measurement components that support good, accurate risk measurement, management and reporting.

Among medical researchers and clinicians the dominant view is that it is unethical to deceive patients by prescribing a placebo. This opinion is formalized in a recent policy issued by the American Medical Association (AMA [Chicago, IL]). Although placebos can be shown to be always safe, often effective, and sometimes necessary, doctors are now effectively prohibited from using them in clinical...