BACKGROUND In September 2009, a folic acid fortification mandate (135 μg/100 g bread) was to be implemented in New Zealand. However, due to political and manufacturer objection, fortification was deferred until May 2012. Based on estimates of bread consumption derived from a 1997 nationally representative survey, this program was intended to deliver a mean additional intake of 140 μg folic acid...

A Working Group on Pediatric Allergology was formed in 1984, which rapidly developed to become the European Society on Pediatric Allergology and Clinical Immunology (ESPACI) in 1988 with its own journal, Pediatric Allergology and Immunology. ESPACI worked together with the European Academy of Allergology and Clinical Immunology (EAACI) to form a Section of Pediatrics within EAACI (SP-EAACI) in ...

A u t h o r : S h a n e A T h o m a s , Ph D. I have just completed the considerable task of preparing a doctoral thesis for assessment. Shane Thomas' pocket-sized How to book was invaluable. Thomas is an experienced academic, based in Melbourne. He has qualifications in social science, public policy, and research. He holds adjunctive professorial or research fellow appointments at four univers...

Following Swales’ (1981) definition of genre analysis many scholars have attempted to characterize good academic writing; however, this can be difficult and worrying for non-native writers. Since a well-written abstract encourages readers more effectively, the present study intended to find differences in the rhetorical structures of abstracts by TEFL students from the University of Tehran (UT)...

Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon--the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconci...

Adriane Fugh-Berman examines documents unsealed in recent litigation to investigate how pharmaceutical companies promoted hormone therapy drugs, including the use of medical writing companies to produce ghostwritten manuscripts and place them into medical journals.

Methods: First, we constructed a questionnaire based on the descriptors collected from various sources in order to elicit university teachers’ views on the importance of these descriptors. A revised version was produced based on the feedback from the initial questionnaire survey. In order to further investigate what level or levels these remaining descriptors would fall into, 35 university teac...

About the authors James Bird is a primary school teacher at The Blake CE Primary School in Witney, Oxfordshire. Alongside being a class teacher, he is also ICT coordinator. Before retraining as a teacher in 2000/01, he was a lecturer and researcher in the School of Postgraduate Medical and Dental Education at the University of Wales College of Medicine, Cardiff. His role was as a teacher and re...

CONFEDERATION OF POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION COUNCILS Postgraduate Medical Council of Victoria The Postgraduate Medical Institute of Tasmania The Northern Territory Postgraduate Medical Council The Postgraduate Medical Council of New South Wales Council for Early Postgraduate Training in South Australia The Postgraduate Medical Education Foundation Queensland The Prevocational Training and A...

Clinical photodynamic therapy (PDT) has existed for over 30 years, and its scientific basis has been known and investigated for well over 100 years. The scientific foundation of PDT is solid and its application to cancer treatment for many common neoplastic lesions has been the subject of a huge number of clinical trials and observational studies. Yet its acceptance by many clinicians has suffe...