Radiation in medicine: Origins, risks and aspirations. [PDF]
The use of radiation in medicine is now pervasive and routine. From their crude beginnings 100 years ago, diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine and radiation therapy have all evolved into advanced techniques, and are regarded as essential tools across ...
Donya, M +4 more
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Pain medicine content, teaching and assessment in medical school curricula in Australia and New Zealand [PDF]
Background: The objective of pain medicine education is to provide medical students with opportunities to develop their knowledge, skills and professional attitudes that will lead to their becoming safe, capable, and compassionate medical practitioners ...
Bate, Frank +4 more
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Sex-mediated differences and correlations between the anthropometric characteristics and motor abilities of university students [PDF]
The aim of this study was to evaluate sex-mediated differences, and the correlations, between anthropometric characteristics and motor abilities of university students performing various motor tests.
Clark, Cain +2 more
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Family medicine training in Sub-Saharan Africa : South-South cooperation in the Primafamed project as strategy for development [PDF]
BACKGROUND. Health-care systems based on primary health care (PHC) are more equitable and cost effective. Family medicine trains medical doctors in comprehensive PHC with knowledge and skills that are needed to increase quality of care.
Ayankogbe, Olayinka +4 more
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Plasma neuronal specific enolase : a potential stage diagnostic marker in human African trypanosomiasis [PDF]
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Mitchell, Julia A, Sternberg, Jeremy M
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Traditional vocations and modern professions among Tamil Brahmans in colonial and post-colonial south India [PDF]
Since the nineteenth century, Tamil Brahmans have been very well represented in the educated professions, especially law and administration, medicine, engineering and nowadays, information technology.
Fuller, C. J., Narasimhan, Haripriya
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Comparison of Medicine Availability Measurements at Health Facilities: Evidence from Service Provision Assessment Surveys in Five Sub-Saharan African Countries. [PDF]
With growing emphasis on health systems strengthening in global health, various health facility assessment methods have been used increasingly to measure medicine and commodity availability.
A Cameron +11 more
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An All-digital Nuclear Medicine Department [PDF]
An all-digital nuclear medicine department is described. Nuclear medicine images are acquired by a separate computer interfaced to each camera. The digital images are viewed, manipulated, and interpreted from remote display stations in an interpretation area. The interpretation is dictated into a Rapid Telephone Access System (RTAS), where the voice is
J A, Parker +7 more
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Empyema necessitans with osteomyelitis of fifth rib due to Nocardia farcinica: a case report
Background Empyema necessitans is a rare pulmonary condition described as the presence of pus in the pleural cavity with insidious extension into the surrounding soft tissue.
Swapnil Tripathi +7 more
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Thyrotoxic periodic paralysis is a rare endocrine emergency that manifests as acute onset muscle weakness and hypokalaemia secondary to thyrotoxicosis. It mainly occurs due to rapid and dramatic intracellular shift of potassium resulting in hypokalaemia ...
Tejaswee Banavathu +5 more
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