Dr. Cornell has boon for six years a medical inspector and is now Director of Medical Inspection in the Philadelphia Public Schools. In the course of this experience he has worked out many problems to a solution, and has become an authority upon methods. His book is, in the first place, a practical manual for the medical inspector, and in the second place a work of reference for the teacher who...

The new European vigilance guidelines come into force on 1 January 2008. In addition, the Directive amending the medical devices Directives, which includes some aspects of the vigilance system, was recently published. This article discusses the amendments concerning vigilance requirements, the new European vigilance guidelines and steps that manufacturers should take now to prepare for these.

www.ums.ac.uk Dr Michael McBride is the new Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Northern Ireland. A graduate of Queens University Belfast Medical School, he also trained in St Mary’s at Imperial College London. His specialist interest in HIV/AIDS suggested early on in his career that he was not afraid of working in a challenging and ever changing field. I met with him to discuss his vision of the N...

Unfortunately, some medical device manufacturers, particularly those based outside the United States (US) are unaware of the business implications of submitting a 510(k) premarket notification to the US Food and Drug Administration. This article discusses information regarding the ownership and other business related aspects of filing a 510(k).

BACKGROUND Emergency medical dispatching should be as accurate as possible in order to ensure patient safety and optimize the use of ambulance resources. This study aimed to compare the accuracy, measured as priority level, between two Swedish dispatch protocols - the three-graded priority protocol Medical Index and a newly developed prototype, the four-graded priority protocol, RETTS-A. METH...

This article investigates the role of the medical examination in municipal poor relief programmes between 1570 and 1620. Documents from the city of Nördlingen, a community of approximately 10,000 people in 1600, suggest that municipal facilities addressed a range of serious illnesses for a wide spectrum of the population. Practitioners were influenced by their Galenic medical milieu but ultimat...

Organizing Committee: James Anderson, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions; Michael Brazaitis, M.D., Walter Reed Army Medical Center; Gilbert Devey, B.S., Georgetown University Medical Center; Anthony DiGioia, M.D., Shadyside Hospital; Matthew Freedman, M.D., M.B.A, Georgetown University Medical Center; Dietrich Grönemeyer, M.D., Witten/Herdecke University; Corinna Lathan, Ph.D., The Catho...