World-Organization after the World-War: An Omninational Confederation

The Third World War?

Reforming the World Health Organization after Ebola.

are helpful. For example, the website DiabetesMine curates video patient reviews that explain how a particular app works andwhether the patient or caregiver finds it useful (http://bit.ly/1EtLCCR). “It’sagreat resourcethat isbeingmissed because it isnotcomingfromthemedicalestablishment,”Leesaid. “Patientsare thebest at finding tools thathelp themmanage their chronic disease.” Even if a physicia...

Production and Optimization of an ethanol-based handrub solution according to the world health organization formulation

Hand hygiene is the most effective, simplest, and least expensive way to prevent the spread of hospital infections. Hand hygiene needs an ingredient that shows effectiveness in reducing microbial load in a way; alcohol-based hand rubs have more effective fast and long-lasting disinfection than other antiseptics. The aim of this study was to prepare and optimization of an alcohol-based hand rub ...

Psychotherapy in The Netherlands after the Second World War

The early history of psychotherapy in the Netherlands hardly differs from that of the surrounding countries. Somewhat later than in France and Germany, psychotherapy appeared during the last decades of the nineteenth century, with general practitioners who started to treat their patients (mainly for all kinds of somatic complaints) by psychological means. In the early decades of the twentieth c...

World War I: an air war of consequence.

On December 17, 1903, the brothers Wilbur and Orville Wright flew the world's first successful airplane, following this with the first military airplane in 1908. (The 1908 Flyer was built by the brothers in response to a 1907 requirements specification for a 2-place aircraft capable of flying at 40 mph and able to be broken down and transported in a horse-drawn wagon. Technically, since it cras...