The introduction of 2-[18F] fluor-2-deoxy-D-glucose (18FDG) has provided a valuable tool for the study of glucose metabolism in both normal and diseased tissue in conjunction with positron emission tomography (PET). 18FDG is the most important radiopharmaceutical to be used in Nuclear Medicine for studying the brain, heart and tumor. The advancement in synthesis and quality control of 18FDG and...

“In a highly mobile society, there is no way to contain a disease unless one considers the problem a global health issue,” commented Jessie Gruman, Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Health (Washington, DC, USA), a non-profit institute dedicated to translating research into practice and policy. “Infectious disease is no longer regional or owned by the poor; it gets on airpl...

as a guide to the medical staff but also helps largely in the working of the attached dispensary. The appearance of the new Presidency General Hospital Pharmacopoeia will therefore remove a long-felt want of the members of the institution. A pharmacopoeia is a book of standards; the editor is more or less bound down by formula; and recipes of old standing and cannot allow himself to be carried ...

Hepatitis A vaccines prepared by formalin inactivation of purified cell-culture grown hepatitis A virus are licensed in several European countries. The potencies of these vaccines are expressed in units unique to each manufacturer. Standardisation of potency statements requires establishment of an international reference material. At its 1999 meeting, the ECBS(2) established a preparation coded...

A technique is described for evaluation of the fit-for-purpose risks in conformity assessment chemical composition a substance or material, based on multivariate Bayesian approach. The approach takes into account measurement uncertainty, correlation and mass balance constraint. Two datasets related to synthetic air (provided as electronic supplementary material this paper) were studied. first d...

or. ^he three subsequent editions. All books on pharmacology to keep up to date nave perforce to be revised when the official lists of drugs ^e so dealt with and the tenth edition appeared in 1932 to bring it into line with the new edition of the witish Pharmacopoeia in that year and this edition has appeared to keep pace with the United States Pharmacopoeia which was revised this year. Apart f...