CMR March 18 BU

CMR March 18 BU

CMR March 18 BU

(Continued on p. 2) Large European Data Base Indicates STM Effective Method of Family Planning Since 1984, German researchers from the University of Dusseldorf and the University of Heidelberg have been developing and analyzing a data set of menstrual cycles collected from multiple European sites. This long-term menstrual cycle data base (of 32,788 prospectively collected menstrual cycles) was ...

A nationwide medication incidents reporting system in The Netherlands

OBJECTIVE Many Dutch hospitals have established internal systems for reporting incidents. However, such internal systems do not allow learning from incidents that occur in other hospitals. Therefore a multicenter, information technology (IT) supported reporting system named central medication incidents registration (CMR) was developed. This article describes the architecture, implementation and...

Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation for chronic myeloid leukemia in first chronic phase: a randomized trial of busulfan-cytoxan versus cytoxan-total body irradiation as preparative regimen: a report from the French Society of Bone Marrow Graft (SFGM).

From March 1988 to March 1991, 19 French bone marrow transplant (BMT) centers participated in a prospective randomized trial comparing two conditioning regimens for patients with chronic myeloid leukemia transplanted in first chronic phase with an HLA identical sibling donor. A total of 120 consecutive patients were randomized to receive either 120 mg/kg of cyclophosphamide followed by total bo...

Sero-Epidemiology as a Tool to Screen Populations for Exposure to Mycobacterium ulcerans

BACKGROUND Previous analyses of sera from a limited number of Ghanaian Buruli ulcer (BU) patients, their household contacts, individuals living in BU non-endemic regions as well as European controls have indicated that antibody responses to the M. ulcerans 18 kDa small heat shock protein (shsp) reflect exposure to this pathogen. Here, we have investigated to what extent inhabitants of regions i...