Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon--the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconci...

Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.

Methods: First, we constructed a questionnaire based on the descriptors collected from various sources in order to elicit university teachers’ views on the importance of these descriptors. A revised version was produced based on the feedback from the initial questionnaire survey. In order to further investigate what level or levels these remaining descriptors would fall into, 35 university teac...

abstract the present  research seeks to pinpoint the deficiencies of compiling and writing textbooks, and also provide the needed standards for writing printed and electronic books in payame noor university. to achieve the said objectives, printed and electronic textbooks were studied and the problems regarding the principles of compiling and writing books have been recognized. the research is ...

AIM This paper in the series on professional assessment provides a practical guide to writing key features problems (KFPs). Key features problems test clinical decision-making skills in written or computer-based formats. They are based on the concept of critical steps or 'key features' in decision making and represent an advance on the older, less reliable patient management problem (PMP) forma...

Students at universities and colleges in Belgium as well as abroad often experience difficulties with writing (academic) texts in their native language. Several needs analyses have pointed out that the most frequent writing problems in Dutch are text structure and cohesion, academic style and, to a lesser extent, spelling. Despite many interventions such as extra writing classes or workshops, t...

The prevalence of musculoskeletal issues in clinical practice, and the limited focus placed upon musculoskeletal conditions by current electronic summary resources, highlights the need for a resource that provides access to simple and concise summaries of top-quality orthopedic literature for orthopedic surgeons and allied healthcare professionals. OrthoEvidence™ is an online clinical resource ...

Enhanced p l a in TJ$ macros and a bidding environment for typesetting bridge card distributions and bidding sequences are given as a follow-up to the IPW macros given in [12]. Moreover, macros for annotated printing of the course of the play are provided. Examples of use are included.