BACKGROUND Medical blogs have emerged as new media, extending to a wider range of medical audiences, including health professionals and patients to share health-related information. However, extraction of quality health-related information from medical blogs is challenging primarily because these blogs lack systematic methods to organize their posts. Medical blogs can be categorized according t...

Trust has often been identified as an important factor in Business-to-Consumer (B2C) electronic commerce. Lack of trust in online companies is a primary reason why many web users do not shop online. This study proposes a model of the determinants and effects of perceived company trustworthiness by first-time customers. The model is empirically tested using a questionnaire-based field study. The...

D. Pharm., B.Sc. (Hons), B.Pharm. (Hons), M.Pharm., Ph.D., FICS, CChem FIC (India), CChem FRSC (UK), CSci (UK), AOM (USA) Professor, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Shri Sarvajanik Pharmacy College, Gujarat Technological University, Arvind Baug, Mehsana-384001, Gujarat, India Phone: 00-91-2762-247711 (Ext-307); Fax: 00-91-2762-247712 Website: http://sspcmsn.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/F...

Since 2006, after completing a cognitive certifying or recertifying examination, dermatologists are automatically enrolled into Maintenance of Certification (MOC) and can access a personalized electronic table (at www.abderm.org) that presents the requirements over the 10-year cycle. On this web site, diplomates can also pay the annual fee and attest to completion of the various components. Cli...

BACKGROUND In 2004, the US Department of Veterans Affairs expanded its delivery of chiropractic care by establishing onsite chiropractic clinics at select facilities across the country. Systematic information regarding the planning and implementation of these clinics and describing their features and performance is lacking. OBJECTIVES To document the planning, implementation, key features and...

medical student at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, wanted a central repository for his notes. Since he was lugging his laptop to class anyway, he figured putting them on a website made sense. And though his original motivation was to enhance his education, LaPierre thought his website could also help students across Canada and in other countries, especially those in resource-poor ...

It is 2 am in the cardiac step-down unit. A nurse needs to set up a secondary infusion on a new infusion pump, a procedure that she has never done before. She had attended the in-service training session before the pumps arrived the previous month, but there was a great deal of information to absorb. Clinical nurse specialists, who provide assistance with technology-related questions, are not a...

BACKGROUND Wrong-site surgery in dermatology often occurs due to difficulty finding the initial biopsy site prior to Mohs surgery. Patients frequently present for Mohs surgery weeks to months following the initial biopsy site. Visualization of the biopsy site may become difficult at presentation due to healing. OBJECTIVE To investigate the utility of anesthetic blister induction at a su...

The guided migration of neural cells is essential for repair in the central nervous system (CNS). Oligodendrocyte progenitor cells (OPCs) will normally migrate towards an injury site to re-sheath demyelinated axons; however the mechanisms underlying this process are not well understood. Endogenous electric fields (EFs) are known to influence cell migration in vivo, and have been utilised in thi...