195 cases of acute poisoning among children (age<12 y) in a tertiary hospital were identified over a period of one year. Two-thirds (63%) of them were males and 75% were below five years of age. Poisoning by medicines was most common (17%) followed by ingestion of corrosives/detergents (16%) and kerosene (14%).

Translational research is difficult to define but recognizable to all who engage in it. Academic medical centers struggle to participate effectively, in contrast to the biotechnology or pharmaceutical industry, which are designed for nothing else. The process of translational research can be viewed as a cycle with defined phases and identifiable checkpoints. From the original hypothesis, throug...

tant Abt Associates Inc, showed that 90% do not have a consistent water supply and 50% do not have electrical generators. “We never have a day without the electricity cutting off for 12 hours or longer, and half of these centers have no generator,” said Alwan. The same survey showed that 95% of those centers do not have gynecologic tables or electrocardiogram machines. “When we say there’s a sc...

Background: Pharmaceutical services play an important role in the success of patient treatment health centers, therefore it is necessary to evaluate management pharmaceutical preparations and clinical pharmacy see level satisfaction waiting time for prescriptions centers by comparing those stipulated regulation minister no 74 2016 129 year 2008 Objective: The purpose this study was Consumable M...

background: dental waste can be hazardous to humans and the environment. objective: to determine the current status of dental waste management in private and public dental clinics and private dental offices in shiraz, southern iran. methods: this cross-sectional study was conducted at the shiraz university of medical sciences from february through june 2013. a stratified random sampling method ...

Owing to a great progress in clinical chemistry connected with utilization of applied mathematics, the pharmacokinetics came into being. The previously unknown objective methods of research of drugs in humans were discovered, among them controlled clinical trials (CCT). These new methodologies generated a new clinical discipline called clinical pharmacology (CPH) which has its roots in basic ph...

A productive and ethical relationship between the pharmaceutical industry and physicians is critical to improving drug discovery and public health. In response to concerns about inappropriate financial relationships between the pharmaceutical industry and physicians, national organizations representing physicians or industry have made recommendations designed to reduce conflicts of interest, le...

A recent proposal to address conflicts of interest in academic medical centers suggested that industry support of continuing medical education (CME) activities should be limited to contributions to a central fund that would disburse the money to programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. The authors of the proposal reason that this arrangement would " per...