Academic health centers (AHCs) have long been the exemplars of medicine in the United States. They produce “breakthrough” research, pioneer new diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, and train the best and brightest future physicians with emphasis on specialists and subspecialists. Today, they face a perilous future because the health care economic system that supports this enterprise is fad...

During 1984 a short summary of all recruits who failed their recruitment medical examination at Leven was kept. An overall failure rate of 19% was discovered and no recruit examined in 1984 from Army Careers Information Office, Leven, was dismissed from service on medical grounds. It seems quite likely, therefore, that the Regulations covering medical fitness are adequate. Indeed, the Regulatio...

Iran has a rich civilization and a long history during which medical science flourished at specific periods. For instance, medicine blossomed in Sassanids era (226 - 652 AD). One of the most remarkable cultural and scientific centers of Sassanids era was the city of Gondishapur located in the south-west Iran in Shah-Abad near Susa in Khuzestan Province. The city was rebuilt in the third century...

Electrophysiological procedures use high-cost multipolar electrode catheters which can be reprocessed. The reuse thereof has been performed by electrophysiology services in Europe, United States, Latin America and also in our midst. In fact, prior studies have proved that there is an actual cost decrease1,2 and have also attested to the safety and efficacy of such practice,3-12 observing rates ...

1. Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Division of International Health and Humanitarian Programs, Boston, Massachusetts USA 2. Senior Scholar,Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC USA 3. Senior Fellow, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts USA 4. Professor, Department of Community Emergency Health & Paramedic Practice, Monash Univ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether completing a year of the Rural Clinical School of Western Australia (RCSWA) program is associated with entering the rural medical workforce. DESIGN AND SETTING Cohort study of graduates from the University of Western Australia who completed Year 5 of medical school between 2002 and 2009, comparing work location (identified from the Australian Health Practitioner...

From the Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin–Madison School of Medicine, Madison (N.S.); the Early Intervention Program Clinic, Milwaukee Health Services, Milwaukee (C.L.A.); and the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School (D.R.K., S.S.), and the Department of Veterans Affairs Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence (S.S.) — both ...