Switzerland to consider revised guidelines

Revised guidelines on

Latent tuberculosis: revised treatment guidelines.

ing to 1999 estimates, 1.86 billion people — one third of the world’s population — are infected with tuberculosis. Most people with primary tuberculosis (TB) do not have signs or symptoms and may not know that they are infected. Their immune systems contain the tubercle bacilli in oxygen-deprived small granulomas, where the bacilli lie dormant for years. Following primary infection, the lifetim...

Revised dietary guidelines for Koreans.

With rapidly changing dietary environment, dietary guidelines for Koreans were revised and relevant action guides were developed. First, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee was established with experts and government officials from the fields of nutrition, preventive medicine, health promotion, agriculture, education and environment. The Committee set dietary goals for Koreans aiming for ...

EFNS GUIDELINES EFNS guidelines on neuropathic pain assessment: revised 2009

EFNS guidelines on neuropathic pain assessment: revised 2009 G. Cruccu, C. Sommer, P. Anand, N. Attal, R. Baron, L. Garcia-Larrea, M. Haanpaa, T. S. Jensen, J. Serra and R. -D. Treede EFNS Panel on Neuropathic Pain, Vienna, Austria; Department of Neurological Sciences, La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy; Department of Neurology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany; Department of Clinical...

Revised Ethics Guidelines for Environmental Epidemiologists

A 299 Environmental epidemiology, a well-established sub specialty of epidemiology, is of vital importance in the identification and prevention of environmentally linked morbidity and premature mortality. Perhaps more than most other applied sciences, the discipline of environmental epidemiology faces significant ethical challenges because of the involvement of powerful stake holders whose infl...