The Society has had a notable year. Membership steadily increased, attendances were excellent, and two most successful joint meetings were held in Edinburgh with the Royal Medical Society and the Scottish Department of the Pharmaceutical Society respectively. At the Annual General Meeting and the following Ordinary Meeting in October 1978, the Society was honoured by having as its guest and one...

Muhasebe hataları, işletmelerin mali tablolarının ve raporlamaların doğru güvenilir olmasını engellemekte bu verilerden faydalanan ilgili tarafların karar alma süreçlerini olumsuz yönde etkilemektedir. hatalarından ortak, yönetici hissedarlarının yanı sıra finansal tablo kullanıcıları da zarar görmektedir. Türkiye’de en önemli yerel yönetim idarelerinden olan il belediyelerin muhasebe kayıtları...

Serbia, as many countries in Eastern Europe, is in the process of reforming its health system in an effort to improve the efficiency and efficacy of health services and to achieve equal distribution of health resources. Representatives of Ministry of Health (MOH), Health Insurance Fund (HIF), and Institute of Public Health (IPH) articulated an overall health vision for the health sector in Serb...

Over the past 15 years, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) has engaged in ongoing efforts to improve the methodology and data collection processes used to develop the national health accounts (NHA) estimates of national health expenditures (NHE). In March 1998, HCFA initiated a third conference to explore possible improvements or useful extensions to the current NHA projects. This ...

There are strong pressures for employers to pursue defined contribution health benefits with individual health benefit accounts such as Medical Savings Accounts (MSAs), Health Care Reimbursement Accounts (HCRAs), and Comprehensive Individual Medical Accounts (CIMAs). Health care consumers are becoming more assertive. The political backlash against managed care is eroding provider-based cost con...

BACKGROUND Glomerulonephritis (GN) is a group of rare kidney diseases with a substantial health burden and high risk of progression to end-stage renal disease. Research in GN has been limited by poor availability of large comprehensive registries. Substantial variations in access to and administration of treatment and outcomes in GN have been described. Leveraging provincial resources and exist...

Phytohemagglutinin (PHA), the seed lectin of the common bean, accumulates in protein storage vacuoles of storage parenchyma cells in cotyledons. When expressed in yeast, PHA is efficiently targeted to the yeast vacuole [Tague and Chrispeels (1987). J. Cell Biol. 105, 1971-1979]. To identify vacuolar sorting information in PHA, a series of 3' deletions of the PHA gene were fused in-frame to a tr...

Pharmaceutical policy in Canada is set at both the federal and provincial levels of government. The federal government is responsible for intellectual property rights of manufacturers (patents) and the initial approval and labelling of prescription drugs and for ensuring overall market competitiveness. The provincial government has responsibility and jurisdiction over the funding of all health ...

A novel influenza A (H1N1) virus detected in April 2009 rapidly spread around the world. North American provincial and state laboratories have well-defined roles and responsibilities, including providing accurate, timely test results for patients and information for regional public health and other decision makers. We used the multidisciplinary response and rapid implementation of process chang...