Saddam Hussein's medical examination should not have been broadcast: Images were designed to humiliate

Should There Have Been a Polis in Aristotle’s Poetics?

[Reimbursement of generics in Croatia: should more have been done?].

BACKGROUND while numerous ordinances on drug pricing and reimbursement have been enacted, trying to suppress the drug expenditure in Croatia, it seemed there were inconsistencies in pricing procedures of some of the drugs. OBJECTIVES to show whether or not the pricing system given has had the desired result, we review pricing and reimbursement systems of generics in some of the EU countries a...

Should Singapore have a second medical school?

The case for establishing a second medical school in Singapore is strong. Given the recent explosive advances in medicine and biology, Singapore has identified the life sciences as an area of great economic potential, and aspires to become a regional "medical hub" capable of achieving excellence in healthcare, medical education and biomedical research. The existing medical faculty at the Nation...

Mathematical model to calculate the number of articles that should have been retracted

We analysed the PubMed database, looking for retracted articles published between 1950 and 2004 in 4,348 journals with known impact factors (IFs) over a number of years. Here we compute each journal’s impact factor as an average of its IF values reported for the years 1999 to 2004 by ISI Thomson, Inc. Note that for some journals, ISI provides different IF values in the bar charts and text on th...

Why Should We Have a Periodic Safety and Performance Program for Medical Devices

Nowadays, more than 10,000 different types of medical devices can be found in hospitals.These devices used in medical centers and hospitals for monitoring and treatment of patients require periodic safety and performance checking in order to have confidence in their functioning and operation. Physicians need better accurate medical measurements in order to better diagnose diseases, monitor pati...