In the exhaustive report, Nancy Robb discusses the murder charge laid against respirologist Nancy Morrison following the death of a patient in a Halifax hospital. There appear to be no blacks and whites in the sea of grey surrounding this case, she reports.

1. HPST: Hospital, patients, healthcare, territories; Loi n° 2009-879 du 21 juillet 2009. 2. ATIH: Technical agency responsible for hospitalisations’ information; http:// www.atih.sante.fr/unites-communes-de-dispensation-prises-en-charge-en-sus, downloaded 25/01/2014 3. HAS: High Authority for Health; http://www.has-sante.fr 4. WHO Collaborative Centre for Drugs Statistics and Methodology, ATC ...

Dendrimer-Llinked Nitroxide MR Contrast Agents For Cartilage Imaging: Distribution In Cartilage, pH And Charge Dependence Of Solute Diffusion Carl S. Winalski1,2, Erika Schneider1, Hiroshi Yoshioka2, Sonya Shortkroff2, Gerald Rosen3 1Imaging Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH; 2Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA; 3Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD winals...

the purpose of this investigation was directed to propose sensitive, accurate and reproducible methods of analysis that can be applied to determine distigmine bromide (dtb), cyclopentolate hydrochloride (cphc), diaveridine hydrochloride (dvhc) and tetrahydrozoline hydrochloride (thhc) drugs in pure form and pharmaceutical preparations via charge-transfer complex formation with 7,7,8,8-tetracyan...

tyrosinase is a multifunctional copper-containing enzyme. it can catalyze two distinct reactions of melanin synthesis and benzaldehyde derivatives, which are potential tyrosinase inhibitors.  to find the relationships between charge distributions of benzaldehyde and their pharmaceutical behavior, the present study aimed at investigating nuclear quadrupole coupling constants of quadrupolare nucl...

objective(s): iscomatrix vaccines have now been shown to induce strong antigen-specific cellular or humoral immune responses to a broad range of antigens of viral, bacterial, parasite or tumor. in the present study, we investigated the role of iscomatrix charge in induction of a th1 type of immune response and protection against leishmania major infection in balb/c mice.  materials and methods:...

the interaction between benzo-15-crown-5 (b15c5), dibenzo-18-crown-6 (db18c6), dibenzyl-daza-18crown-6 (dbzda18c6), n-phenyl-aza-15-crown-5 (npha15c5) and dibenzopyridine-18-crown-6 (dbpy18c6) with π-acceptor 2,3-dichloro-5,6-dicyanobenzoquinone (ddq) in chloroform solution was studied spectrophotometrically. the interaction of b15c5-ddq and db18c6-ddq caused the formation of 1:1 charge transfe...

background: this study assessed the clinical usefulness of the solid phantom, which may compensate for the disadvantages of the water phantom, by comparing the radiological doses between the two depending on their depths. materials and methods: the experimental equipment used was a linear accelerator for medical use, water phantom, solid phantom, farmer type ion chamber and electrometer. the di...

Department of Radiology, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital Received October 23, 2008 ; Accepted April 7, 2009 Address reprint requests to : Hyun Sook Hong, M.D., Department of Radiology, Soonchunhyang University Bucheon Hospital, 1174 Jung dong, Wonmi-gu, Bucheon-si, Gyeonggi-do 420-767, South Korea. Tel. 82-32...

background: hospitals in iran are not prepared for disasters the aim of this study was to determine the effect of training functional and nonstructural hospital safety to nurses and their intervention on hospital preparedness in psychiatric razi hospital and day hospital in tehran based on hospital safety index (hsi). materials  and  methods:  this  semi-experimental  study  included  nurse  ma...