OBJECTIVE Summarize the current state bioinformatics research from the published literature in 2008. METHODS The entire corpus of publications indexed by the National Library of Medicine in the PubMed repository was reviewed for articles tagged as belonging to the discipline of bioinformatics by Medical Subject Heading or by term in the title or abstract of the article. Selected summary stati...

Meningitis, pneumonia, and sepsis in newborns and young infants (age < 60 days) are the main causes of childhood mortality in developing countries. Even though streptococcus pneumonia is the most commonly detected microorganism in pediatric bacterial meningitis, it is rare in newborn infants. The following article reports a case of pneumococcal meningitis that was detected early in a newborn in...

nowadays, medical tourism reports impressive growth in terms of number of persons, income and number of countries involved in cross-border flows. so this study was undertaken to clarify entrepreneurship opportunities and bio-ethics boundaries in medical tourism. for tourism entrepreneurs, these outgoing flows related to medical procedures and tourism become an opportunity that cannot be ignored...

The formation and propagation of anti-phase boundaries (APBs) in the epitaxial growth III-V semiconductors on Silicon is still subject great debate, despite impressive number studies focusing this topic last past decades. control layer phase major importance for future realization photonic integrated circuits that include efficient light sources or new nano-electronic devices, example. Here, it...