BACKGROUND Previously developed 'club guidelines' developed for club owners and promoters have tended to focus more on the legislative aspects of clubs, rather than the medical management of unwell clubbers within club environments. Despite this lack of guidance on the management of unwell clubbers, a significant proportion of clubs have 'club medic' rooms for managing these individuals. Howeve...

The continued growth of the computational capability of throughput processors has made throughput processors the platform of choice for a wide variety of high performance computing applications. Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are a prime example of throughput processors that can deliver high performance for applications ranging from typical graphics applications to general-purpose data parall...

This paper shows the general perceptions of Spanish university stakeholders in relation to the university’s annual reports and the adequacy and potential of intellectual capital reporting. To this end, a questionnaire was designed and sent to every member of the Social Councils of Spanish public universities. It was thought that these participants would provide a good example of the attitude of...

Fernando Alfonso (MD) , Karlen Adamyan (MD), Jean-Yves Artigou (MD) , Michael Aschermann (MD), Michael Boehm (MD), Alfonso Buendia (MD) , Pao-Hsien Chu (MD) , Ariel Cohen (MD), Livio Dei Cas (MD) , Mirza Dilic (MD) , Anton Doubell (MD) , Dario Echeverri (MD) , Nuray Enç (MD), Ignacio Ferreira-González (MD), Krzysztof J. Filipiak (MD), Andreas Flammer (MD), Eckart Fleck (MD), Plamen Gatzov (MD) ...

Reader in Surgery, Luc know University. It is an undeniable fact that the abdominal diseases of the ileo-csecal region repeatedly claim the attention of the surgeon. The excuse for a short note on this subject is the great and possibly growing frequency of such diseases in the population around us at the present time. The following figures show the incidence of tuberculosis in the United Provin...

An Izindaba review of annual reports from 2006 to 2008 shows a growth in departmental staff numbers of 13 360 people and a budget spending increase of R5.5 billion (including a R1.2 billion overspend for 07/08). In spite of the heavy spending, the average of medical specialist vacancies at Pietermaritzburg and Durban’s tertiary hospitals stands at 70% and 63% respectively. Medical officer vacan...