BACKGROUND There is a wealth of evidence regarding the detrimental impact of excessive alcohol consumption on the physical, psychological and social health of the population. There also exists a substantial evidence base for the efficacy of brief interventions aimed at reducing alcohol consumption across a range of healthcare settings. Primary research conducted in emergency departments has rei...

Many biological activities take place through the physicochemical interaction of two molecules. This interaction occurs when one of the molecules finds a suitable location on the surface of the other for binding. This process is known as molecular docking, and it has applications to drug design. If we can determine which drug molecule binds to a particular protein, and how the protein interacts...

BACKGROUND Aboriginal Health Workers (AHWs) have a mandate to deliver smoking cessation support to Aboriginal people. However, a high proportion of AHWs are smokers and this undermines their delivery of smoking cessation programs. Smoking tobacco is the leading contributor to the burden of disease in Aboriginal Australians and must be prevented. Little is known about how to enable AHWs to quit ...

BACKGROUND Health services research is a well-articulated research methodology and can be a powerful vehicle to implement sustainable health service reform. This paper presents a summary of a five-year collaborative program between stakeholders and researchers that led to sustainable improvements in the maternity services for remote-dwelling Aboriginal women and their infants in the Top End (TE...

In this issue of the journal, Crawford et al make a useful contribution to the ongoing debate regarding whether alcohol screening and brief intervention for excessive drinkers should be delivered within sexual health clinics. Alcohol misuse in the UK is responsible for considerable morbidity and mortality, as well as financial cost to the National Health Service, estimated at £2.9 billion in 20...

background: the best management for an ovarian mass is provided by appropriate prediction of malignancy. the aim of our study is to construct and validate a new malignancy probability score based on four simple sonographic findings and age. methods: in a cross sectional study; histopathological files of 3303 ovarian mass patients and tertiary hospitals, have reviewed within 6 years (2000-2006)....

. introduction tropical cyclones (tcs), all over the world, are recognized as the most common and most devastating of all the natural disasters. nearly 80–90 tcs occur around the globe that about 40–50 attain intensity of 33 m/s (frank and george, 2007). approximately 7% of tcs originate in north of indian ocean and nearly 2% in arabian sea (wmo report, 2008). the prediction of tc track has bee...