Health professionals are able to make right decision in right time only if they posses prompt, accurate and up to date information about health status of patients and general population. They also need knowledge and tools, computer and information technologies, for successful management of huge amount of information. Efficient management of information is of crucial importance for health policy...

thrombosis will not occur. If the flow is poor, heparin will not help. Prevention of most of the complications from femoral artery puncture could probably be achieved by the following precautions. (1) Never catheterize an artery in a patient with poly-cythaemia. (2) Puncture the common femoral artery, not the external iliac. (3) Do not use excessive or prolonged pressure to arrest bleeding, par...

In his textbook “A Complete Practical Work on the Nature and Treatment of Venereal Diseases”, Homer Bostwick stated that “We do not know of any substance, which, taken into the system, is an antidote to the infection of gonorrheal matter. Such an antidote has been long sought for, and its pretended discovery has been often announced, but we have no good reason to believe that any of these prete...

but more modest historical achievements to be justly proud of. Furthermore, these authors ‘quote’ references which are pure fabrications on the part of the authors and the original sources do not contain such statements. A corollary of such a practice is that unsubstantiated statements become repeated and copied in subsequent writings of one article to the next and so these untruths become esta...

“Every child deserves a medical home” is one of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ (AAP) essential child health outcomes for the 21st century. With increasing health care costs, technology, survivorship, specialization, and fragmentation of care, the medical home is steadily gaining interest and standing in the public eye. Today’s policy makers, those who are involved with children, and parent...

Health professionals are able to make right decision in right time only if they posses prompt, accurate and up to date information about health status of patients and general population. They also need knowledge and tools, computer and information technologies, for successful management of huge amount of information. Efficient management of information is of crucial importance for health policy...