Correspondence: Dr. Sudhamsu Koirala, MD Consultant Pathologist Kathmandu Pathology Laboratory, Kathmandu, Nepal Email: [email protected] Background: This article aims to decipher chemical composition of renal stones and briefly outline laboratory tests and dietary habitual changes aimed at preventing stone recurrence. It is based on analysis of 95 renal stones received in a private la...

Ryan R. J. McAllister, John E. Gross, Chris J. Stokes 1 CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Davies Laboratory, PMB PO Aitkenvale 4814 Australia. 2 National Park Service, 1201 Oakridge Dr., Ft Collins, Colorado 80525 USA. a Corresponding Author: CSIRO Sustainable Ecosystems, Davies Laboratory, Private Mail Bag PO Aitkenvale 4814 Australia Tel: +61-7-4753-8613 Fax: +61-74753-8600 [email protected]

Background: High quality midwifery care for patients in the labor unit is of great importance in the promotion of women's wellbeing and pregnancy health. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the professional behavior of midwives with respect to their responsibilities and the service they provide in labor units in the university, governmental and private hospitals across Sari in 1390. M...

Background : Medical Laboratory plays a critical role in maintaining and promoting health. Increasing wide applications of laboratory medicine in clinical practice have highlighted specific topics in the areas of social, professional and ethical issues in the laboratory. Despite the important role of clinical lab in health system, ethical issues have been rarely discussed for clinical labs. Con...

after four years of publishing the iranian national laboratory standard and following a strategic plan to implement its requirements, it was decided to review the taken actions, evaluating the achievements and the failures, as well as analyzing the gaps and planning the interventional activities to resolve the problems. a thorough evaluation revealed that the progress of implementation process ...

HIV diagnostic and follow up testing are usually done in laboratory settings. However, in developing countries there is a need to decentralize testing as the majority of the population lives in rural settings. In developing countries stringent quality assurance (QA) practices, which include appropriate training, development of standard operating procedures, maintenance of operator proficiency, ...

BACKGROUND The contrast between the low proportion of tuberculosis (TB) suspects referred from private practitioners in Bali province and the high volume of TB suspects seeking care at private practices suggests problems with TB suspect referral from private practitioners to the public health sector. We aimed to identify key factors associated with the referral of TB suspects by private practit...

We study in the laboratory a series of first price sealed bid auctions of a common value good. Bidders face three types of information: private information, public information and common uncertainty. Auctions are characterized by the relative size of these three information elements. Half of our subjects bid differently depending on whether the last piece of information obtained is private or p...

1 Laboratory of Tropical Crop Improvement, Catholic University of Leuven, K Mercierlaan 92, 3001 Hever/ee, Belgium 2ARC Grain Crops Institute, Private Bag X1251, Potchefstroom, 2520 South Africa 3Department of Nematology, Agricultural Research Organisation, The Volcani Centre, Bel Dagan, Israel 4National Col/ection of Nematodes, Biosystematics Division, ARC Plant Protection Research Institute, ...