A POSSIBLE ADVANCE IN MEDICAL MANOMETRY

The growing importance of advance medical directives.

Medical Advance, Public Health and Social Evolution

ground of his life (over 250 names of his contemporaries appear in the text), Gibbs also provides a valuable document of the eighteenth century scene and, at the same time, produces an excellent companion volume to R. E. Schofields' The Lunar Society ofBirmingham (1963). That science never for long took first place in Priestley's life is correctly stressed. Full justice is done, for instance, t...

The Australian experience of advance directives and possible future directions

This paper analyses the role that advance directives can play in the formation of advanced care planning. Following on from a review of the legal history of advance directives in Australia, including the common law and statutory regimes, it is argued that schemes for advance directives have not yet proven to be successful. It is proposed that what is needed is a more integrated approach, whereb...

Outsourcing Medical Dataset Analysis: A Possible Solution

We explore the possible ways modern cryptographic methods can be applied to the field of medical data analysis. Current systems require large computational facilities owned by the data owners or excessive trust given to the researchers. We implement one possible solution in which researchers operate directly on homomorphically encrypted data and the data owner decrypts the results. We test our ...

Survey of anal sphincter dysfunction using anal manometry in patients with fecal incontinence: a possible guide to therapy

BACKGROUND Despite the surge of new medical and surgical approaches to treat fecal incontinence, the types of sphincter abnormalities in patients with incontinence have not been well characterized. We aimed to categorize anal sphincter dysfunction using anorectal manometry in patients with fecal incontinence as a potential guide for improved treatment. METHODS A retrospective review of 162 co...