DISKURSOSFERA PECHATNYKH SMI: IGRA NA VYZHIVANIE

Reflections on the Smi

Physical health indicators in SMI.

Abbt and Alderson remark ‘how little time we spend in general practice ... perhaps 8 weeks over an entire degree’ but at Imperial College London and probably at most other medical schools, this represents greater time allotted than for many other specialties. We suggest the focus in medical schools should shift towards improving the quality of general practice placements and promoting the integ...

The IGRA tests: where are we now?

In the early 1990s, WHO declared TB a global emergency [1]. Since that time after introduction of DOTS strategy and National TB Programs, the reduction of global incidence rate (2002), as well as of total number of TB cases (2006) were recorded. However, in 2012, about 8.6 million cases were established, of which only two third were registered. It means that 3 million cases were missed and untr...

Cost-effectiveness of IGRA testing for the treatment of latent tuberculosis in Switzerland Short title: Cost effectiveness of IGRA testing

IPPB, SMI, gloves: good or bad?

COMMUNICATIONSTO THE EDITOR 615 misdiagnosed as diffuse alveolar damage or fibrosing alveolitis. Dr. Carrington has re-reviewed the slides and agrees that this is an example of eosinophilic pneumonia with an unusual degree of bronchiolitis obliterans. The patient has also been included in another report4 as an example of acute fibrosing alveolitis. It is recognized that patients with rheumatoid...