During the 2001 anthrax bioterror-ism investigation, several areas were identified in which additional research may improve public health response. The disciplines and specific expertise required to approach many of these areas are varied and reside in multiple entities in the federal government and elsewhere. To identify, prioritize, and coordinate short-term Bacillus anthra-cis bioterrorism r...

Many major incidents have significant impacts on people's health, placing additional demands on health-care organisations. The main aim of this paper is to suggest a prioritised agenda for organisational and management research on emergency planning and management relevant to U.K. health care, based on a scoping study. A secondary aim is to enhance knowledge and understanding of health-care eme...

Between 1822 and the late 1830s a highly personal priority dispute was fought between the celebrated surgeon and anatomist Sir Charles Bell and his ex-student Herbert Mayo. The dispute was over the motor and sensory functions of the Vth and VIIth cranial nerves. Over the course of the 1820s and the 1830s, the competing claims of Bell and Mayo were presented in newspapers, journals, and textbook...

background cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer among women worldwide. organized cervical screening and vaccination against human papilloma virus (hpv) have been successful interventions for prevention of invasive cervical cancer (icc). because of cultural and religious considerations, icc has low incidence in iran and many other muslim countries. there is no organized cervical scre...

OBJECTIVES This priority setting partnership was commissioned by Parkinson's UK to encourage people with direct and personal experience of the condition to work together to identify and prioritise the top 10 evidential uncertainties that impact on everyday clinical practice for the management of Parkinson's disease (PD). SETTING The UK. PARTICIPANTS Anyone with experience of PD including: p...

conclusions higher prevalence of t. gondii in patients with ad compared to controls showed the possible impact of this parasite in ad, which may exacerbate symptoms, and this requires special attention of specialists and patient families. results the overall prevalence of t. gondii infection in patients with ad and the control group, using elisa assay, was obtained as 66.6% (58/87) and 56.32% (...

Bronchiectasis is a disease of renewed interest in light of an increase in prevalence and increasing burden on international healthcare systems. There are no licensed therapies, and large gaps in knowledge in terms of epidemiology, pathophysiology and therapy. The European Multicentre Bronchiectasis Audit and Research Collaboration (EMBARC) is a European Respiratory Society (ERS) Clinical Resea...

Myalgic encephalitis (M.E.) is a common condition, the cause of which is not known and there are no treatments available. In this study the national patient support group Action for M.E. sought the opinions of their members via an online survey as to what they felt should be future priorities for M.E. RESEARCH Respondents were asked what they considered first, second and third research priori...

The introduction of potent combination antiretroviral therapy (ART) in the treatment of HIV infection has permitted reliable control of disease progression and has markedly improved survival among people with HIV. As a result, health care providers and patients have shifted clinical priorities; whereas once delaying opportunistic illness was a primary focus, increasing emphasis is now placed on...