STOURPORT MEDICAL AID ASSOCIATION.

Road Accidents - Medical Aid

ROAD ACCIDENTS MEDICAL AID. By Hans Pacy. (Pp. 136; figs. 30. £1.00). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1971. IT is commonplace to observe that the increasing numbers of deaths and disabling injuries due to accidents on our roads are the cause of concern to the public and the profession, and while much has been written on the subject of such injuries, and their treatment, in wellequipp...

The Syrian Medical Aid Association: British philanthropy in the Near East.

The Syrian Medical Aid Association (SMAA), created by British philanthropists and medical men in the 1840s, represents one of the earliest attempts by a secular organization to transmit Western medicine to a part of the world deemed to be in need of assistance. Its founders, convinced of the need for well-trained physicians, drugs, and equipment in Syria and hopeful that the introduction of sci...

Medical aid system: change way overdue.

The South African medical aid system has evolved in such a way (fragmented risk pools, legally beholden to prescribed minimum benefits (PMBs), a free-for-all on provider tariffs), that there's little wonder it's adversarial and riven with antagonism, exploitation and mistrust.

Medical Aid for Automatic Detection of Malaria

The analysis and counting of blood cells in a microscope image can provide useful information concerning to the health of a person. In particular, morphological analysis of red blood cell's deformations can effectively detect important disease like malaria. Blood images, obtained by the microscope, which is coupled with a digital camera, are analyzed by the computer for diagnosis or can be tran...

The Medical Profession and First Aid