Soviet agriculture: US sees signs of improvement

Nuclear medicine market sees solid growth as PET shows signs of commercial viability

For vendors at this year’s Society of Nuclear Medicine show in Los Angeles, the industry’s hard times of the mid-1990s were only a memory. While the meeting suffered from low physician attendance and a paucity of new technological introductions, the growing commercial promise of PET for the most part overshadowed other concerns. Vendors sailed into the show buoyed by a strong market: Industry o...

Nuclear medicine market sees solid growth as PET shows signs of commercial viability

For vendors at this year’s Society of Nuclear Medicine show in Los Angeles, the industry’s hard times of the mid-1990s were only a memory. While the meeting suffered from low physician attendance and a paucity of new technological introductions, the growing commercial promise of PET for the most part overshadowed other concerns. Vendors sailed into the show buoyed by a strong market: Industry o...

How the US responded to disaster in the Soviet Union.

Quality improvement - the US perspective

Continuous evaluation of performance and outcomes leading to improvement is currently the focus of continuous quality improvement (CQI) programmes in ambulatory surgery. This can be implemented by developing clinical indicators and acceptable thresholds that are relevant to daily practice, easy to measure and can be used to initiate the analytic process. Collection of data without the ability t...

Improvement in Signs of Parkinson's Disease in Rats Following Transplantation of Embryonic Stem Cells

Purpose: Parkinson's disease is a degenerative disease produced by the death of dopaminergic neurons, and the response to current treatments is varied. It is important to develop a model for the evaluation of ES cells as an alternative model for treatment. Materials and Methods: The model for PD was developed in rats. First, ES cells were transplanted into experimental models in three groups: ...