This article suggests that nurse prescribers require an awareness of key concepts in ethics, such as deontology and utilitarianism to reflect on current debates and contribute to them. The principles of biomedical ethics have also been influential in the development of professional codes of conduct. Attention is drawn to the importance of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry's...

Prior to 1988, little had been written about the benefit to risk ratio of adding heparin anticoagulation to intravenous thrombolytic therapy for patients with evolving myocardial infarction, and heparin was considered to be a relatively trivial issue in the overall scheme of coronary thrombolysis. In the past 2 years, however, a considerable body of new data has been derived from intensive clin...

Background. Now one of the necessary capabilities, to succeed in the field of competition is having knowledge and marketing skills in economic institutions. Objectives. The goal of this study was Factors affecting development of marketing capability of collegiate sport. Methods. This study is correlating, and, in view of objective, current research is practical. Populations consist of 5 group...

Prodromal Alzheimer’s disease is a novel area of research, with clinical research definitions still under development. The LipiDiDiet trial,1 published in The Lancet Neurology, was one of the first completed trials based on the International Working Group (IWG-1) criteria for prodromal Alzheimer’s disease.2 The study was a non-pharmacological intervention (medical food Souvenaid) in prodromal A...

Introduction: Although many factors can affect the choice of destination in medical tourism, some factors are indispensable to medical tourists and medical tourism. The aim of this study was to analyze important factors affecting the selection of a destination by potential medical tourists. Methods: This descriptive, cross-sectional study, conducted in Tu...

Anthropology and global health have long been a focus of research for both biological and medical anthropologists. Research has looked at physiological adaptations to high altitudes, community responses to water-borne diseases, the integration of traditional and biomedical approaches to health, global responses to HIV/AIDS, and more recently, to the application of cultural approaches to the con...

While much excitement has been generated surrounding evidence-based medicine, internal documents from the pharmaceutical industry suggest that the publicly available evidence base may not accurately represent the underlying data regarding its products. The industry and its associated medical communication firms state that publications in the medical literature primarily serve marketing interest...