California: Leading The Way?

California leading

California has a new hit: the state's new Academy of Sciences building in San Francisco has been drawing increasing plaudits from both professionals and the public alike. With the strictest of environmental demands, architect Renzo Piano has created a building " that is visually and functionally linked to its natural surroundings, metaphorically lifting up a piece of the park and putting a buil...

Leading the way in interventional pain management.

The interval for mental, physical and spiritual rejuvenation has officially ended as summer turns into fall. As usual, my colleagues and I begin another academic year with an energy and enthusiasm that should only follow a prolonged period of respite. Yet, this year is different. My focus is more precise than ever and my drive is turbo-charged. In my view, much remains to be accomplished as it ...

Leading the Way to Quality Long-term Care

Purpose: The purpose of this article is to describe the projected use for long-term-care services through 2012. Design and Methods: We constructed a static-component projection model using age, function, and other covariates. We obtained enrollee projections from the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) and combined these with nursing home and community long-term-care service use rates from the...

Federal policy leading the way in emergency medical services.

Biodiscovery from microbial resources: Actinomycetes leading the way

Biodiscovery from microbial resources can be defined as the exploration of microbial metabolic products to detect, identify and evaluate their potential for medicinal, agricultural and biotechnological operations. Microbial resource centres house microbial compounds produced under different physical and nutritional parameters to maximise the production of metabolites and are subsequently tested...