OBJECTIVES Controversy surrounding the long term effects of repeated impacts from heading has raised awareness among the public and the medical community. However, there is little information about the human response to the impacts and what measures can be taken to alter their effect. The objective of the current study was to gain a better understanding of heading biomechanics through the imple...

• Objective: To review the literature on the management of nosocomial urinary tract infections (UTIs) and propose guidelines for their treatment. • Methods: MEDLINE search for English-language articles published between 1966 and August 2004 using the medical subject heading “urinary tract infections” or “urinary catheterization” combined with the term “nosocomial infection” or “hospital-acquired

Librarians at the National Library of Medicine tag each biomedical abstract to be indexed by their Pubmed information system with terms from the Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) terminology. The MeSH terminology has over 26,000 terms and indexers look at each article's full text to assign a set of most suitable terms for indexing it. Several recent automated attempts focused on using the article...

TO THE EDITOR, " INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE." Dear Sir,?I was quite surprised to read in the Indian Medical Gazette of December 1889, volume xxiv, page 372, which has the heading " A Yunani School at Delhi." Under the above heading you have perhaps by mistake put the name of Nawab Abdul Lateef Bahadur, C. I. E., instead of Dr. Syed Ahmed, K. C. S. I., of Aligarh. I myself had the honour of attendin...

Fully decentralized peer-to-peer (P2P) systems do not have a central control mechanism. Thus, different forms of control mechanisms are required to deal with selfish peers. One type of selfish behavior is the consumption of resources without providing sufficient resources. Therefore, incentive schemes encourage peers to share resources while punishing selfish peers. A well-known example of an i...

The perioperative surgical home (PSH) is a system for organizing and coordinating care that is patient-centered, physician-led and teambased. PSH care extends from the decision for surgery until completion of recovery. The main components of the PSH are engaged physician leadership, patient optimization for surgery, timely scheduling, evidence-informed care pathways, expert surgical and anesthe...

Under this heading, the Lancet for the 26th November, 1870, makes some comments on an outbreak of cholera which occurred in the Jounpore jail in February 1870 ; the Lancet had gained its information on the subject from Allen's Indian News, and the editor justly remarks,?"to sum up the matter, the medical officer (in charge of the Jounpore prison) was quite unable to connect the origin of the ep...

An informative structured abstract of about 150 words must accompany each manuscript, it should be suitable for use by abstracting journals and include data on the problem, the method and materials, results and conclusion. Key (Indexing) Words Below the abstract provide three to ten key words or short phrases that will assist indexers in cross indexing your article. Use terms from the medical s...