Rauwolfia serpentina has come to stay with the modern medical profession as a useful therapeutic agent. It would be easily the best remedy so far discovered from amongst Indian folk lore and it will be a matter of time involving wide field trials before the drug finds its exact role in the management of two challenging medical problems namely ‘hypertension’ and ‘neuropsychiatric’ conditions. Ho...

In the history of human medicine, antibiotics represent epochal examples of medical progress. However, with an approaching antibiotic crisis due to the emergence and extensive spread of antimicrobial resistance among bacterial agents, as well as to increasing number of patients with chronic and recalcitrant bacterial biofilm-associated infections, the naturally occurring molecules may become ne...

In this paper the author presents medicinal or otherwise useful weed species with details of family, vernacular name and its medicinal utility. Information on other general economic importance of medicinal weeds is also described here.

The Basque Diaspora in Western USA and Argentina represents two populations which have maintained strong Basque cultural and social roots in a completely different geographic context. Hence, they provide an exceptional opportunity to study the maternal genetic legacy from the ancestral Basque population and assess the degree of genetic introgression from the host populations in two of the large...

Discrete-choice experiments (DCEs) have become a commonly used instrument in health economics and patient-preference analysis, addressing a wide range of policy questions. An important question when setting up a DCE is the size of the sample needed to answer the research question of interest. Although theory exists as to the calculation of sample size requirements for stated choice data, it doe...

W. Liu, B. Turkbey, J. Senegas, S. Remmele, C. Stehning, D. Daar, Y. Pang, M. Bernardo, and P. Choyke Clinical Sites Research Program, Philips Research North America, Briarcliff Manor, NY, United States, Molecular Imaging Program, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, United States, Sector of Tomographic Imaging, Philips Research Europe, Hamburg, Germany, Molecular Imaging Program, National ...

We study the propagation of a "pulled" front with multiplicative noise that is created by a local perturbation of an unstable state. Unlike a front propagating into a metastable state, where a separation of time scales for sufficiently large t creates a diffusive wandering of the front position about its mean, we predict that for so-called pulled fronts, the fluctuations are subdiffusive with r...

The chances are that, even within the past week, you have been involved in some discussion of competence. As concepts and as terms, ‘‘competence’’ and ‘‘competency’’ have crept into everyday medical vocabulary to a point where it is difficult to determine how, when and why they first appeared. This is a real problem, given the importance that has been placed upon ‘‘competency’’ in what I call t...

Dereje Dadi Gudeta, Valeria Bortolaia, Greg Amos, Elizabeth M. H. Wellington, Kristian K. Brandt, Laurent Poirel, Jesper Boye Nielsen, Henrik Westh, Luca Guardabassi Department of Veterinary Disease Biology, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Denmark; School of Life Sciences, University of Warwick, Coventry, United Kingdom; Department of Plant and E...

INTRODUCTION In Japan, participants in the disaster-specific medical transportation system have received ongoing training since 2002, incorporating lessons learned from the Great Hanshin Earthquake. The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred on March 11, 2011, and the very first disaster-specific medical transport was performed. This article reviews in detail the central government's control and ...