Research into gene therapy and genetically modified organism (GMO) medicines is intensifying. Whilst there are only a small number of GMO which have successfully reached registration, Australian hospital pharmacy departments may find themselves in position where they required to handle, prepare dispense this emerging class clinical trial setting. This article explores current literature concern...

day surgery (also called ambulatory or outpatient surgery), the practice of performing surgery without an overnight hospital stay, is not new- indeed it can trace its origins back to the early 1900s- but it only really became popular from about the 1980s. north america, the united kingdom and northern europe were amongst some of the earliest advocates, but the practice has since spread far wide...

BACKGROUND It is current UK policy to expand the numbers of newly qualified doctors entering training to become GPs, to meet increased demand. AIM To report on trends in young doctors' views on the attractiveness of general practice as a career, compared with hospital practice. DESIGN AND SETTING Questionnaire surveys in the UK. METHOD Surveys of doctors, 3 years after graduation, conduct...

OBJECTIVE To undertake an economic evaluation of nurse telephone consultation using decision support software in comparison with usual general practice care provided by a general practice cooperative. DESIGN Cost analysis from an NHS perspective using stochastic data from a randomised controlled trial. SETTING General practice cooperative with 55 general practitioners serving 97 000 registe...

Alexander Gordon, one of twin boys, was born in 1752 in the parish of Strachan, 20 miles south west of Aberdeen. Little is known of his early life, but he obtained an MA at Marischal College, and after further study at the Aberdeen Infirmary and in Edinburgh, graduated in medicine at the University of Aberdeen. In 1780, at the age of 28, with testimonial letters from the Corporation of Surgeons...