New AIDS definition

Working group on AIDS case definition.

Considering a New Sample Unit Definition for Pavement Condition Index

One of the main components of pavement management system (PMS) is pavement evaluation. Several indices have been defined for the evaluation of existing pavement. The Pavement Condition Index (PCI) is a common index used for pavement evaluation. In order to calculate PCI, a significant volume of condition data -based on distress surveying- is required. The objective of this research is to reduce...

Cachexia: a new definition.

On December 13th and 14th a group of scientists and clinicians met in Washington, DC, for the cachexia consensus conference. At the present time, there is no widely agreed upon operational definition of cachexia. The lack of a definition accepted by clinician and researchers has limited identification and treatment of cachectic patient as well as the development and approval of potential therap...

New Definition of Aging?

Article, see p 801 In this issue of Circulation Research, Quyyumi et al provide evidence that regenerative capacity, as measured by circulating progenitor cell counts, may better define the aging process, refining our ability to define age-related cardiovascular risk according to a metric other than years. Nearly 20 years ago, Asahara et al identified CD34 cells as a population enriched for cel...

Assessment of clinical case-definition for HIV/AIDS in Tanzania.

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the usefulness of World Health Organisation (WHO's) clinical case-definition (CCD) for AIDS in a private hospital. DESIGN A prospective study. SETTING Shree Hindu Mandal Hospital, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. SUBJECTS A total of 601 patients (> 14 years) were studied from January 1995 to December 1997. METHODS Using HIV test results as a reference standard, sensitivity...