The year of 2016 is eventful in many aspects. As President of ISA National, I was invited to many places nationally and internationally as Guest of Honour and in few places as Chief Guest and I am happy to say that Icould participate in many academic events. I was specially invited to Guangzhou in China for the annual Conference of Chinese Society of Anaesthesiologists in the capacity of Presid...

The war in Ukraine is now entering its ninth year, and a year has passed since the russian army invaded on large scale. A few months ago, Ukrainian Renal Disaster Relief Committee of Association Nephrologists Kidney Transplant Specialists was established began work to provide immediate support kidney patients during war. In this brief report, we present first data collected number receiving rep...

Warwickshire Association records with regret the enforced abandonment of a scheme for the opening of a County Certified Institution at Southam, whilst Buckinghamshire has to report the failure of the Local Education Authority to realise their hope of establishing a Residential School for feeble minded girls at Pragnell. The Birmingham After Care Committee notes a decrease in the number of cases...

PURPOSE To use meta-analysis techniques to evaluate the efficacy and safety of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections for the treatment knee of osteoarthritis (OA). METHODS We performed a systematic literature search in PubMed, Embase, Scopus, and the Cochrane database through April 2016 to identify Level I randomized controlled trials that evaluated the clinical efficacy of PRP versus control...

Clinical document contains vital information like symptom names, medication names, age, gender and some demographical information. These information can be used for giving quick relief from a disease. In existing system, they had built a system for clustering symptom names and medication names using Multi-View Non-Negative Matrix Factorization. While considering the clinical documents the facto...

woman seeking relief from menopausal.svmptoms is common in Westesn society. Many women, however, suffer in silence or take the plunge towards synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Whilst the untoward symptoms of the female climacteric (change of life) are troublesome, the postmenopausal onslaught of degenerative diseases is the real health problem that faces the mature female. New inform...

The Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001 reduced individual income tax rates for most taxpayers. The conventional wisdom, and evidence from earlier reductions in marginal tax rates, suggests that such reductions are associated with expansions of small businesses. In this paper I investigate how the business decisions of self-employed taxpayers responded to the 2001 rate cut...