biological terrorism consequences and medical preparedness

nuclear, chemical, and biological terrorism

nuclear, chemical, and biological terrorism

Ngày tải lên : 01/06/2014, 10:26
... clinical and medical microbiology He is the director of clinical microbiology and diagnostic immunology at Tisch Hospital, New York University Medical Center, as well as Mt Sinai Medical Center, and ... Department of Homeland Security is designed to be comprised of four main divisions: Border and Transportation Security; Emergency Preparedness and Response; Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear ... guidelines for state and local governments Direct exercises for federal, state, and local chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear attack response teams and plans Consolidate and synchronize...
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Successful scientific writing a step by step guide for the biological and medical sciences

Successful scientific writing a step by step guide for the biological and medical sciences

Ngày tải lên : 05/04/2016, 18:49
... reorganized and expanded to offer increased guidance, additional examples, and more hands-on exercises When you picked up this book, did you fear that it would center on split infinitives, case and tense, ... databases available to biological and medical researchers All are available in both traditional formats and online from various vendors Database Description Agricola Agricultural and Environmental ... to Nursing and Allied Health) Current Contents Dissertation Abstracts Covers biomedical and genetic engineering and related fields Widely used for literature in biology, agriculture, and biomedicine...
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Báo cáo y học: "Management of chest pain: exploring the views and experiences of chiropractors and medical practitioners in a focus group interview"

Báo cáo y học: "Management of chest pain: exploring the views and experiences of chiropractors and medical practitioners in a focus group interview"

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2012, 10:06
... focus group composed of both chiropractic and medical professionals The goals of the focus group were to explore the attitudes and experiences of medical and chiropractic clinicians regarding their ... rule out cardiac and other major medical conditions first), and that musculoskeletal chest pain is principally a diagnosis by exclusion Anecdotal experience of both chiropractic and medical cardiology ... practices and standardization of care Participants reported that standardizing care within professions may facilitate opportunities for interprofessional referrals, that guidelines and care standards...
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Báo cáo y học: "Surgical and medical emergencies on board European aircraft: a retrospective study of 10189 cases"

Báo cáo y học: "Surgical and medical emergencies on board European aircraft: a retrospective study of 10189 cases"

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2012, 10:31
... data and classified different categories of medical and surgical emergencies Only events that actually happened in the air after take-off and before landing were included rpk values were also obtained ... online http://ccforum.com/content/13/1/R3 Several studies have shown the use and suitability of expanded mandatory medical kits introduced on board of US airlines in 1996, which caused the US ... Sceientific Affairs, American Medical Association: Inflight medical emergencies Aviat Space Environ Med 2000, 71:832-838 Ruskin KJ, Hernandez KA, Barash PG: Management of in-flight medical emergencies...
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Báo cáo y học: "Lifetime health effects and medical costs of integrated stroke services - a non-randomized controlled cluster-trial based life table approach"

Báo cáo y học: "Lifetime health effects and medical costs of integrated stroke services - a non-randomized controlled cluster-trial based life table approach"

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2012, 10:35
... 3% and 0% discounting rates for both costs and health effects Results Lifetime costs and health effects Table presents the average (half) yearly costs and the EuroQoL-5 D score at discharge and ... categories 0-1, 2-3, and was 5.94, 5.16, 3.87 and 3.64 for men, and 6.91, 5.94, 4.92, and 4.51 for women Corresponding lifetime QALYs were estimated at 4.12, 3.00, 1.39, -.02 for men, and 4.80, 3.28, ... the Netherlands The population-based stroke incidence register: Incidence, initial clinical picture and medical care, and three-week case fatality Stroke 1982, 13:629-634 37 Bamford J, Sandercock...
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Báo cáo y học: "Special considerations in the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder and medical co-morbidities"

Báo cáo y học: "Special considerations in the treatment of patients with bipolar disorder and medical co-morbidities"

Ngày tải lên : 25/10/2012, 10:51
... signs and symptoms of medical illness and facilitating referral for appropriate evaluation and intervention Psychiatrists must also be aware of the medical risks of psychotropic medications and ... with medical comorbidity Patients with psychiatric illness may not have routine general medical care and diagnosis of general medical conditions may be delayed As the physician with the most (and ... (Amphocin and Fungizone), aripiprazole (Abilify), carbamazepine (Tegretal and others), clozapine (Clozaril), droperidol (Inapsine and others), gabapentin (Neurontin), haloperidol (Haldol and others),...
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Data mining and medical knowledge management   cases and applications

Data mining and medical knowledge management cases and applications

Ngày tải lên : 16/08/2013, 16:24
... Information and Knowledge and communication technologies These new technologies are speeding an exchange and use of data, information and knowledge and are eliminating geographical and time barriers ... models and situations related to medicine and using medical concepts However, all these situations and corresponding medical statements are usually oversimplified in order to provide easy and transparent ... cancer and diabetes, is enabled by the concurrence of two main factors: the availability of data at the genomic and proteomic scale and the construction of biological data repositories and ontologies,...
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Tài liệu CANCER AND MEDICAL CANNABIS doc

Tài liệu CANCER AND MEDICAL CANNABIS doc

Ngày tải lên : 15/02/2014, 04:20
... chemotherapy are nausea and retching The nausea and retching associated with chemotherapy are often disabling and intractable The severity of the symptoms and their medical consequences vary from ... nausea and vomiting, and tiredness It can cause drowsiness, confusion, weakness, and headache when first starting the drug Nausea, vomiting, dry mouth, changes in heart rate and blood pressure, and ... between and 50 to for secobarbital and between and 10 to for ethanol Marihuana is also far less addictive and far less subject to abuse than many drugs now used as muscle relaxants, hypnotics, and...
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PATENTS AND MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ISSUES FACING THE AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY

PATENTS AND MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY: AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF ISSUES FACING THE AUSTRALIAN INDUSTRY

Ngày tải lên : 13/03/2014, 21:54
... (3) and (4) of the Patents Act 1990 excludes applications for innovation patents (but not for standard patents) for plants and animals and biological processes for the generation of plants and ... ‘Patents and Access to Genetic Tests’ Centre for Law and Genetics Symposium Breaking the Code Murdoch Children’s Research Institute And Walter And Eliza Hall Institute, Melbourne 28 and 29 November ... debated both nationally and internationally In addition, the expertise of members of the Centre for Law and Genetics lies primarily in the area of medical law and ethics and to date the research...
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TUBERCULOSIS - PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR CLINICIANS, NURSES, LABORATORY TECHNICIANS AND MEDICAL AUXILIARIES doc

TUBERCULOSIS - PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR CLINICIANS, NURSES, LABORATORY TECHNICIANS AND MEDICAL AUXILIARIES doc

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 03:20
... treatment and had been registered in another TB centre, and was then referred during treatment 42 The disease TB and HIV TB is a leading cause of HIV-related morbidity and mortality and is one ... 1988 (before HIV pandemic) Region ARI estimate (%) Sub-Saharan Africa 2.5 Northern and Western Asia 1.5 Asia 2.0 South America 1.5 Central America and the Caribbean 1.5 Caucasus and eastern Europe ... national scale using chest X-rays, sputum smear microscopy and cultures) These surveys are, however, demanding and are rarely done All the figures and formulas mentioned above are only valid for countries...
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AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge potx

AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge potx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 12:20
... the clinic, and so forth) and in the context provided by 30 AIDS, Rhetoric, and Medical Knowledge scientific discourses and embodied by scientific texts, journal articles, conferences, and symposia ... richness, depth, and complexity of the Introduction lab, the clinic, and the operating theater, and the vigor, determination, and commitment of social movements It consists of a thousand disparate ... its causes, concrete shape, and consequences By contrast, risk implies a set of tools and procedures through which knowledge about the causes, shapes, consequences, and means of prevention of...
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MORAL PRINCIPLES AND MEDICAL PRACTICE, THE BASIS OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENC potx

MORAL PRINCIPLES AND MEDICAL PRACTICE, THE BASIS OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENC potx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 13:20
... right and praiseworthy, and others wrong and worthy of condemnation; even there Doctors and patients and their relatives would have certain rights and duties In such a land, the lecturer on Medical ... and likeness; and let him have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and the beasts, and the whole earth, and every creeping creature that creepeth upon the earth.” And ... food and clothing, his mental and physical improvement, and even his reasonable recreations Man can lawfully hunt and fish and practise his skill at the expense of the brute creation, notwithstanding...
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Responsible Research with Biological Select Agents and Toxins potx

Responsible Research with Biological Select Agents and Toxins potx

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 15:20
... Biology and Public Health and CoDirector, Center for Health Preparedness, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY JOHN D CLEMENTS, Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, and ... conclusions and recommendations: Research on biological select agents and toxins is essential to the national interest Research with biological select agents and toxins introduces potential security and ... focus on those biological agents and toxins that might be used as biothreat agents Policies and practices for work with biological select agents and toxins should promote both science and security...
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Means, Ends and Medical Care doc

Means, Ends and Medical Care doc

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 19:20
... in front of and behind us, above and below, things oriented horizontally and vertically, things connected and separate, large and small, heavy and light, active and inert, lasting and transitory, ... things inside and outside of others, things close up and far away, appearing and disappearing, obvious and hidden, changing suddenly and gradually, rigid and deformable, hot and cold, loud and quiet, ... fuzzy and/ or overlapping boundaries), several different image schemas to be explicated below, metaphors and scenarios for event structure, cause and effect, means and ends, and acts and consequences...
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Arsenic speciation in environmental and biological samples extraction and stability studies

Arsenic speciation in environmental and biological samples extraction and stability studies

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 23:49
... determined in four powder candidate reference materials (prepared within the framework of a European project) of environmental and biological origin: rice, chicken, fish and soil samples Sample preparation ... concentrated HNO3 were added and the reactor was covered and pre-digested overnight Next, 20 mg of Na2 S2 O8 and ml of HClO4 (or 0.3 ml of concentrated HF in rice) were added and heated to 150 ◦ C for ... 1:1–9:1) and M H3 PO4 (only for soil samples) Table shows the total arsenic content found in rice, chicken, fish and soil, after acid digestion of raw samples and determination by HG-AFS, and the...
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STATE OF THE ART IN BIOSENSORS - ENVIRONMENTAL AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS potx

STATE OF THE ART IN BIOSENSORS - ENVIRONMENTAL AND MEDICAL APPLICATIONS potx

Ngày tải lên : 16/03/2014, 12:20
... circularly permuted LOO10-GFP construct (beta strand 10 omitted) and introducing two synthetic forms of strand 10, the wild-type strand and a strand with a mutation to cause yellow-shifted fluorescence, ... tween the nonbiological materials on the surface of a sensor or implant and biologically active fluids [10,11] Potential applications include the acceleration and improvement of medical implant ... barrel.Each beta strand is to 13 residues in length and hydro‐ gen bonds with adjacent beta strands to create an enclosed structure.The bottom of the barrel contains both termini and two distorted...
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HEALTH STATUS AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF THE FUTURE ELDERLY: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDICARE PROGRAM EXPENDITURES potx

HEALTH STATUS AND MEDICAL TREATMENT OF THE FUTURE ELDERLY: IMPLICATIONS FOR MEDICARE PROGRAM EXPENDITURES potx

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 13:20
... the health and functional status of the elderly, the likely effects of new medical advances and treatments on morbidity and mortality among the elderly, and the likely costs of new medical treatments ... decreases in ADL, and nursing home residence: • Men tend to have higher risks of cancer and heart disease and lower risks of hypertension, arthritis, and disability than women • Blacks and Hispanics ... better medication management, and improved home environment And perhaps most importantly, changes in lifestyle could have the most dramatic consequences for the health and medical expenditures of the...
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Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics pot

Information Technology in Bio- and Medical Informatics pot

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 22:20
... the aim to integrate biology and medical information and to bridge the gap between clinical care and medical research, provides a large and interesting field for biomedical informatics researchers ... coupled communication, and text-encoded data and messages The widespread adoption of SOAP18 and WSDL19 standards together with HTTP20 and XML21 facilitate developers to adopt and less costly to deploy ... relation of bioinformatics and clinical medicine Bioinformatics was originated by the outstanding development of information technologies and genetic engineering, and the effort and investments during...
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The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Accident & Health Insurance and Medical Service Plans Sold by Life Insurance Companies pdf

The 2000-2005 World Outlook for Accident & Health Insurance and Medical Service Plans Sold by Life Insurance Companies pdf

Ngày tải lên : 22/03/2014, 22:20
... Insurance and Medical Service Plans Sold by Life Insurance Companies 38 2.46 SWAZILAND Accident & health insurance and medical service plans sold by life insurance companies (US $ mln): Swaziland 1995 ... Vincent and the Grenadines Trinidad and Tobago United States viii Executive Summary American Samoa Australia Fiji Kiribati Marshall Islands Micronesia Federation Nauru New Zealand Palau Solomon Islands ... political and economic risk assessments and legal trends (e.g., intellectual property, licensing, and corruption) This report covers the world outlook for accident & health insurance and medical...
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