Interventional Radiology (IR) is a subspecialty of diagnostic Radiology. It has dramatically developed in the recent past and has became part of daily practice in most Health Care centres in Europe and worldwide. Because of its major role in various diseases, IR has gained wide acceptance and despite turf battles on some intervention, IR are in a central position to create, perform, determine t...

With the active involvement of the entire ONS membership in health policy advocacy, we can achieve positive public policy change. nurses and the Oncology Nursing Society (ONS) why they must continue to be engaged in advocacy to protect and promote oncology nursing. We are increasingly concerned about a series of steps taken by AMA and other physician organizations that indicate their intent to ...

BSTRACT OF THE OCHRANE REVIEW ackground: Peripheral joint osteoarthriis is a major cause of pain and functional imitation. Few treatments are safe and efective. bjectives: To assess the effects of acuuncture for treating peripheral joint oseoarthritis. earch Strategy: We searched the Cohrane Central Register of Controlled Trils (The Cochrane Library 2008, Issue 1), EDLINE, and EMBASE (both thro...

347 At the end of 2008, the experts of American Col­ lege of Cardiology Foundation (ACCF), American Heart Association (AHA), and American College of Gastroenterology (ACG) published a joint po­ sition statement which encompassed the recom­ mendations for reduction in gastrointestinal com­ plications, particularly gastrointestinal hemo­ rrhage, in patients on antiplatelet therapy.1 Since no such...

The available experimental data and steady-state calculations make it difficult to explain the M discontinuity beneath both oceans and continents on the basis of the same phase change. The oceanic M discontinuity may be a chemical discontinuity between basalt and peridotite , and a similar chemical discontinuity ma,y thus be expected b�neath the conti­ nents. Since ayailable experimental data p...

In m any languages o f W est A frica and also in the A frican-C arribean C reo les there ex ists a un ique and p roductive gram m atical phenom enon involv ing an in trica te in terp lay o f a series o f v e rb s and th e ir argum ents w ith in the borders o f w hat seem s to be a m onoclausal construction . V arious n am es have been used to designate th is phenom enon. A m ong them are serial...

Realist Painting Exhibits: 10 a.m.-5 p,m. Tues. through Sat. and 2-5 p.m. Sun., exhibits through March 10 and May 12, respectively, SECCA. Paintings on layers of wax and linen by artist David Ortins; landscapesandnauticalscenes by local artist Robert B. Dance. $3 adults; $2 Piedmont Symphonic Wind Eilsembl~i 8 p.m. · Tues., Crawford Hall. Robert Simon ·coj}ducts. , Sponsorcil by NCSA. $5 adults...

Editor’s note: NEHA strives to provide up­ to-date and relevant information on envi­ ronmental health and to build partnerships in the profession. In pursuit of these goals, we feature a column from the Environmen­ tal Health Services Branch (EHSB) of the Centers for Disease Control and Preven­ tion (CDC) in every issue of the Journal. In this column, EHSB and guest authors from across CDC will...

INTRODUCTION On September 27–28, 2018, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Critical Path Institute’s Transplant Therapeutics Consortium convened a public workshop to address drug development in field of transplantation, titled “Evidence-based Treatment Decisions Transplantation: The Right Dose & Regimen for Patient/Individualized Treatment.” occurred over 2 days focusing on biomarker use ...