Research Libraries in Latin America

Health research in Latin America.

1 Villar J, Carolli G, Wojdyla D, et al, for the WHO Antenatal Care Trial Research Group. Preeclampsia, gestational hypertension and intrauterine growth restriction, related or independent conditions? Am J Obstet Gynecol 2006; 194: 921–31. 2 Sibai BM, Caritis S, Hauth J, for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Maternal-Fetal Medicine Units Network. What we have learned ...

Recent Archeological Research in Latin America.

Recent Archeological Research in Latin America: DR. Wm. DUNCAN STRONG ...... .. 179 The Problems of Aging and of Vascular Diseases: DR. HENRY S. SIMMS ... 183 Obituary: Charles William Lines, Jr. Recent Deaths .................. 186 Scientific Events: New Haven Industrial Medical Service; Health Services of the Commonwealth Fund; Stalin Prizes; The Inter-America Bureau of the New York Academy o...

Barriers to Clinical Research in Latin America

Enhancing health research capacity in developing countries is a global health priority. Understanding the orthopedic burden of disease in Latin America will require close partnership between more-developed and less-developed countries. To this end, the Osteosynthesis and Trauma Care Foundation assembled a research consortium of Latin-American orthopedic leaders. Prior to the meeting, we surveye...

Research opportunities in environmental health in Latin America.

-A study has been made of the thymidine labelling index (TLI) of marrow blast cells in 201 adults with untreated acute leukaemia. There was no significant difference between the TLI in 172 patients with acute myeloblastic leukaemia and 29 patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. The TLI did not correlate with the age, sex, peripheral-blood or marrow blast-cell count, or the platelet count a...

Opportunities and Challenges for IS Research in Latin America