National Cancer Research Institute, Genoa, Italy; Molecular Epidemiology Unit, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom; Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology, Municipal Institute of Medical Research, and CIBER Epidemiologia y Salud Pública, Barcelona, Spain; Medical School, University of Crete, Heraklion, Greece; Institute of ...

This paper was selected as the 2013 student essay winner by the Canadian Undergraduate Surgical Education Committee. The essay was in response to the question "How does rapid communications technology affect learning?"

Results from a descriptive study on Swedish Telemedical Advice Services (TMAS) from 1997, 2002, 2007, and the first six months of 2009 on infectious conditions are presented. These findings concern symptoms, actions taken, number of evacuations, means of communication, and use of digital photos. They show that infectious conditions are a significant contributor to calls to the service and that ...

1 Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 3 Department of Sociology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America, 4 Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts,...

1Cardiac Regeneration and Ageing Lab, Experimental Center of Life Sciences, School of Life Science, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China 2Victor Babes National Institute of Pathology, 050096 Bucharest, Romania 3Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology and Histology, Carol Davila University of Medicine and Pharmacy, 050474 Bucharest, Romania 4Laboratory of Experimental Cardiology, Unive...

Departments of aPsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and bPediatrics, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC; cDepartment of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School and dDepartment of Society, Human Development, and Health and the Center on Media and Child Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts; eAdolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children’s Hospital, Boston,...

Hospital accreditation is a new concept for Hong Kong Hospital Authority hospitals. Queen Mary Hospital has been engaged as one of the hospitals in a territory-wide Pilot Scheme of Hospital Accreditation. In preparation for accreditation, Queen Mary Hospital has undergone the process of self-assessment, staff engagement, and service improvements which all require well-planned strategies to achi...

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