Health reforms that emphasize public health and improvements in primary care can be cost-effective measures to achieve health improvements, especially in developing countries that face severe resource constraints. In their paper “Shanghai rising: health improvements as measured by avoidable mortality since 2000,” Gusmano et al suggest that Shanghai’s health policy-makers have been successful in...

purpose: to determine the effect of horizontal recti surgery on visual acuity and head posture and electronystagmographic indices in patients with congenital nystagmus. methods: this prospective comparative case series was conducted on 58 patients with congenital nystagmus who were referred to our clinic over three years. patients were divided into three groups: the first group (29 cases) had h...

In many domains Case-Based Reasoning has become a successful technique for knowledge-based systems. So far in medicine it is not as successful yet. Since we believe that the main problem is the adaptation task, we have developed a task oriented adaptation model for therapeutic problems. This model is based on our experiences with therapeutic decision support programs in the endocrine domain.