1 Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, 2 Helminth Immunology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America, 3 Departments of Neurology and Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America,...

1 National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States of America. 2 University of California, School of Public Health, Irvine, California, United States of America. 3 Center for Drug Evaluation, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Silver Spring Maryland, United States of America. 4 National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America. 5 MD Anderson Cancer Center Hous...

introduction: cancer research is one of the essential activities for its control and treatment. hospital based cancer registry system is an information system designed to collect, organize and analyze data on cancer. the objective of the present study was to compare hospital based cancer registry system in iran with that in the usa. methods: this research was a comparative study. studied popula...

BACKGROUND During the Suharto era public funding of health in Indonesia was low and the health services were tightly controlled by the central government; district health staff had practically no discretion over expenditure. Following the downfall of President Suharto there was a radical political, administrative and fiscal decentralization with delivery of services becoming the responsibility ...

This investigation is part of an internally-funded research initiative towards processing open source texts (i .e . , free natural language texts drawn from broadcast transcripts, news wires, etc .) . This initiative has been underway for just over half a year, prior to which our group was focusing nearly exclusively on natural language interfaces t o expert systems . We are thus newcomers to t...

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2011;24(1):21–26 I n his defi nitive history on the early days of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, Alan Chesney wrote of Mary Elizabeth Garrett as follows: “For to this lady, more than any other single person, save only Johns Hopkins himself, does the School of Medicine owe its being” (1). Strong words indeed, and doubly important because of the truth they convey. Mos...

Recognizing known faces of possible speakers at the train station is usually how the journey to the outstanding Bürgenstock conference starts, now held in the majestic village of Brunnen, Switzerland (Fig. 1). Tradition dictates that the programme remains a mystery until the beginning of the conference and that speakers can only give one plenary lecture during their life-time. The conference is...