Will the Conversion from Sanatorium Medical Facilities into New Facilities Progress in Japan?

The Progress of Himac and Particle Therapy Facilities in Japan

More than 1,000 patients have been treated with carbon ions accelerated by a medical synchrotron HIMAC at National Institute of Radiological Sciences, NIRS. Treated patients have tumors on sites of head and neck, lungs, livers, prostates, uteruses, bones and soft tissues, etc. The results of the phase I/II clinical studies, the purposes of which are to confirm the effectiveness of the carbon th...

Progress in Research into Ammonia and Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Animal Production Facilities

On 1-4 June 2003, the Danish Institute of Agricultural Sciences (DIAS) hosted the International Symposium on Gaseous and Odour Emissions from Animal Production Facilities. This symposium can be considered a follow-up of the first special symposium on gaseous and odour emissions, held in 1997 in Vinkeloord, the Netherlands (Voermans and Monteny, 1997). The organizers of the 2003 symposium were S...

Medical facilities as moral worlds.

Bioethics is dominated by an emphasis on rule making and quandary solving. Teaching and research in ethics often focuses upon dramatic, controversial issues at the margins of life and death. Much less attention is given to the relationship between moral reflection and the ethos of place. Medical facilities, however, are moral worlds. To discuss the ethos of place is to focus on the character or...

Medical facilities under intense pressure in Gaza.

www.thelancet.com Vol 373 January 17, 2009 199 The best-equipped medical facility in the Gaza Strip resembled a charnal house. Corpses were strewn on the fl oor after morgue refrigerators inside Al Shifa—a 585-bed hospital in Gaza City—were packed to capacity in the fi rst week of the Israeli military off ensive in the Palestinian enclave. Doctors were reduced to treating the injured on the fl ...

Medical training facilities and medical practice in Pennsylvania.