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Prescribing tests must have curriculum support

Correspondence: Thomas I Lemon School of Medicine, Cardiff University, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF14 4XW, Wales Email [email protected] Dear Editor Gordon, Catchpole and Baker have discussed and investigated a very interesting, currently relevant, subject in medical education; particularly with the introduction of the prescribing test for undergraduates trialled in the U...

Dairy Cattle Must Have Good Forage

Must-Have Knowledge about the Helicobacter pylori-Negative Gastric Cancer

Are gastric cancers all attributable to Helicobacter pylori infection? This question is very fundamental for gastric cancer prevention strategies. Cancers are a result of genetic instability and the carcinogenic causes are comprised of both host and environmental factors. Infection is a major initiative for cancer development and, in 2008 statistics, the population attributable fraction (PAF) f...

Public health: someone must have been doing something right!

Table 1 illustrates the change in infant mortality rates, according to WHO statistics. Across a wide geographic and economic range, many countries have made substantial progress, partly due to improvements in sanitation and control of infectious diseases but also due to an improved nutritional situation. Even within a country with a comparatively low infant mortality rate in 1960 like Sweden, t...

Must We Value Life to Have a Right to It?

In her recent article "Death, Mis­­ fortune, and Species Inequality,"l Ruth Cigman gives clear, careful expression to an argument which seems well on its way to becomi ng a classic among opponents of animal rights. 2 Cigman's argument runs as follows: A right to X entails the right to be protected against certain actions which will result in the misfortune, or possible misfortu ne, of not-X. A ...