Doing good: the life of Toronto's General Hospital

Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital offers first-trimester screening across Ontario.

Assessing patient's quality of life after open hart surgery in Bandar Abbass, Iran

Introduction: Promoting patient's quality of life must be the main goal of medical interferences. The increased need and demand for heart surgery, indicates the importance of caring about patients and their quality of life. This study was carried out to investigate the quality of life after heart surgery in Bandar Abbas hospital. Methods: In this descriptive study, the quality of life amo...

Sheehan’s Syndrome Presenting as Major Depressive Disorder

Sheehan’s syndrome or Simmond’s disease is a rare endocrine disorder seen in clinical practice. The clinical spectrum is diverse and a high index of suspicion together with a good clinical acumen and proper diagnostic approach helps in early diagnosis and prompt treatment of this endocrinopathy. Sheehan’s syndrome presenting as a major depressive disorder finds less mention in the literature.Th...

Use of Evidence-Informed Deliberative Processes – Learning by Doing; Comment on “Use of Evidence-informed Deliberative Processes by Health Technology Assessment Agencies Around the Globe”

The article by Oortwijn, Jansen, and Baltussen (OJB) is much more important than it appears because, in the absence of any good general theory of “evidence-informed deliberative processes” (EDP) and limited evidence of how they might be shaped and work in institutionalising health technology assessment (HTA), the best approach seems to be to accumulate the experience of...

I-20: ART - Children How Are They Doing Lessons from Research

Worldwide there are over 4,000,000 ART conceived individuals. As fertility rates ‘fall’ in some countries use of ART is increasing with rates of 1.8% of live births in the UK, 4.4% in Denmark etc. Although still the single largest threat to future ART born children is being born twin, triplet or more, other research shows that there is good grounds for monitoring of the health of these children...