normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa pharmacists as one of health-care providers face ethical issues in terms of pharmaceutical care, relationship with patients and cooperation with the health-care team. other than pharmacy, there are pharmaceutical companies in various fields of manufacturing, importing or distributing that have their own ethical issues. therefore, pharmacy practice i...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this study were to verify the occurrence of dental injuries in professional Brazilian soccer players, the level of knowledge of the teams' medical departments about mouthguards, and the conducts adopted in cases of dental trauma during the match. MATERIAL AND METHODS Closed questionnaires were sent to the physicians in charge of the medical departments of the 40 teams e...

Around 15 years ago, the idea of exploiting the self-repairing, self-organizing and selfreproduction properties of DNA to create nanoelectronic circuits was a dream of many researchers in the nanoscience community1,2. The vision triggered research activities all over the world3,4, but such devices never emerged. In fact, it proved difficult to deliver the most basic requirement: a reliable dete...

The Department of Orthodontics educates predoctoral, professional, and graduate students for careers as practicing dentists, orthodontists, researchers, and teachers. It delivers state-of-the-art treatment to its patients—adults, children, and adolescents with a range of orthodontic, craniofacial, and related issues. The department also conducts major research programs and receives significant ...

and -thromboglobulin) supports a packing or sorting defect rather than a defect in protein synthesis.5,7 By analogy, mice lacking chondroitin sulfate have -granules deficient in PF4, -thromboglobulin, and platelet-derived growth factor because of a granule-packing defect9 and patients lacking the vesicle-sorting protein VPS33B have -granule deficiency.10 Defects in protein packing, vesicle traf...

With the continuous progress of China’s industrialization, problems with the environment, health and safety (EHS) have become increasingly prominent. A study on EHS managers’ competency model shall help Chinese enterprises build up an EHS professional team and accomplish EHS managerial goals. This article adopts the “behavioral event interview” (BEI) method to extract characteristic indexes for...

OBJECTIVE To determine perceptions of acceptable conducts amongst under and postgraduate optometry students and to compare them with students from other disciplines. METHODS Students (under/postgraduate) of optometry (n=156) and other courses (n=54) from University of Minho participated in a voluntary online questionnaire about perception of conducts, classifying as acceptable or unacceptable...