A medical device manufacturer located outside Europe was informed by an Italian distributor that the European Authorised Representative must designate the distributor as the authorised entity when registering the manufacturer's devices in Italy in a new online data bank. This is incorrect. This article discusses the new requirements for registering medical devices in Italy, together with the st...

Aim This study set out to gain insight into views held by children's nursing students, lecturers and clinically based nurse mentors about interprofessional education (IPE). Method A qualitative research design was undertaken. Small focus groups were held with pre-registration children's nursing students, and semi-structured interviews with university lecturers and clinically based nurse mentors...

INTRODUCTION: He MRI is increasingly useful for regionally evaluating ventilation in mouse models of asthma before and after challenge with Methacholine (MCh) [1,2] Such changes can be effectively quantified by suitably normalizing the preand post-MCh images, and subtracting the two to generate a difference map depicting regional changes in ventilation[3]. However, difference mapping can in som...

 Students will recognize the importance of voting within a democracy.  Students will conduct a survey of voters in the community.  Students will analyze results of the survey.  Students will suggest ways to increase voter participation.  Students will list steps in registering to vote.  Students will identify various ways to register to vote (local registration, on the Web, through the de...