The Australian Health Technology Assessment Review has the potential to have a major effect on the availability of new medical technology and the listing of associated medical procedures on the Medicare Benefits Schedule. Despite this, only about 15% of submissions to the Review came from "medical associations". Pharmaceutical and medical technologies are inherently different, and there are a n...

Introduction: During a disaster, an increase in the number of casualties requiring hospital admission is recorded. This challenge hospitals' management - there need for beds, rooms, consumables, drugs, and medical teams to support increased patients arriving. Purpose: study aims analyze awareness professionals about required procedures described contingency plan bed availability case disaster. ...

The utilization of CO2 to produce life support consumables, such as O2 and H2O, via the Sabatier reaction is an important aspect of NASA’s cabin Atmosphere Revitalization System and In-Situ Resource Utilization architectures for both low-earth orbit and long-term manned space missions. In the current International Space Station (ISS) and other low orbit missions, metabolically-generated CO2 is ...

Medical Devices are becoming indispensable part of Indian healthcare sector. multi-product sector which includes various products such as implants, consumables, IVD reagents. The market medical devices is growing tremendously but India mainly relies on imports these devices. Government has announced Promotion Parks. This will encourage setting Med Tech Industry in India. But, short fall skilled...

BACKGROUND In 2006 there were an estimated 645,000 people in Amhara, Ethiopia, with trachomatous trichiasis (TT) who needed surgery. Despite an extensive integrated eye care worker training programme (IECW) and robust support for TT surgical services, productivity has not reached targets. We investigated why surgeon productivity was below target. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Confidential in...