The Broselow tape as an effective medication dosing instrument: A review of the literature.

by Timothy Clapper

Meguerdician, M. J., & Clapper, T. C. (2012, in press). The Broselow tape as an effective medication dosing instrument: A review of the literature. Journal of Pediatric Nursing.

The Broselow tape provides clinical providers with a method of quickly estimating medications and airway adjuncts for... more

Ectoparasites of small mammals in Malaysia. 2010

by M.T. Abdullah, PhD

Ixodes granulatus and Leptotrombidium deliense are of known medical importance.

http://www.tm.mahidol.ac.th/seameo/2011-42-4/06-4984.pdf

A total of 16 animals comprising 5 species of hosts were caught and examined for ectoparasites. The hosts examined... more

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Smart Delivery and Controlled Drug Release with Gold Nanoparticles: New Frontiers in Nanomedicine

by Valerio Voliani

Recent Patents on Nanomedicine - Vol. 2, Is. 1, pp.34-44, 2012, doi: 10.2174/1877913111202010034

Discoveries in the field of nanotechnology are triggering a revolution in medicine, by providing a profusion ofmore

Textualidades cannábicas

by L. Nicolás Guigou

Ponencia presentada en el Debate Nacional sobre drogas- 29 al 31 de agosto de 2011

APOYA:more

Identification of secondary targets of N-containing bisphosphonates in mammalian cells via parallel competition analysis of the barcoded yeast deletion …

by Richard Harrison

Bivi N, Romanello M, Harrison R, Clarke I, Hoyle DC, Moro L, Ortolani F, Bonetti A, Quadrifoglio F, Tell G, Delneri D.
Genome Biol. 2009;10(9):R93. Epub 2009 Sep 10.

BACKGROUND:
Nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates are the elected drugs for the treatment of diseases in which... more

A comparison of Obstetric maneuvers for the acute management of shoulder dystocia. Letter to the Editor.

by Timothy Clapper

Clapper, T. C., Gross, S. J., & Wilcox, W. C. (2012). A comparison of Obstetric maneuvers for the acute management of shoulder dystocia. Letter to the Editor. Obstetrics & Genecology, 119(2), Part 1, 386. doi: 10.1097/AOG.0b013e318244b405

Letter to the Editor, Re: Hoffman MK, Bailit JL, Branch DW,
Burkman RT, Van Veldhusien P, Lu L,et al. A... more

A Tibetan Medical Perspective on Irritable Bowel Syndrome

by Eliot Tokar

Tokar, Eliot 1998, A Tibetan medical perspective on irritable bowel syndrome: building a means of discourse for integrative medicine, Alternative and Complementary Therapies, 4(5): 343-349

This article will compare the diagnostic approaches of Western biomedicine and Tibetan medicine. The biomedical... more

Mobile Computing & Semantic Web in Health & Medicine

by Guus van den Brekel

Language : German
Mobile Computing & Semantic Web für Medizin und Informationsversorgung

Mobile Computing is big and unstoppable. The iPhone and iPad have given an enormous innovative boost to mobile... more

APPLICATION OF THE “TRIANGULAR ECO-KINEMATICS THEORY” (TEKT) (PART I) - THE PARADIGM OF ECOLOGY, PUBLIC HEALTH AND ECONOMY AS A SYNERGISTIC EFFECT UPON HUMAN RIGHTS

by Adrian Toader-Williams

Presented at the International Conference "Human Ecology: Health, Culture and Quality of Life, Oct. 26-27, 2011, Moscow, Russian Federation and Published in the "Herald of the International Academy of Science, Russian Section", 2011, Vol 1, ISSN 2221-7479 Full article [22 pages] in English with a Russian abstract and English abstract. Free download at http://www.heraldrsias.org/online/2011/1/203/
Upcoming updates on TEKT are on the way. Introductory presentation made during conference excerpts at http://youtu.be/kZkGKkbnGKE Comments and collaboration proposals are welcome. Thank you!

The laws governing natural economic flow are recommended to be used as model for a sustainable anthropogenic economy.... more

Ion Beam Analysis Of Silicon Based Surfaces And Correlation With Surface Energy Measurements

by Nicole Herbots

Qian Xing, N. Herbots, M. Hart, J. D. Bradley, B. J. Wilkens, D. A. Sell, Clive H. Sell, Henry Mark Kwong Jr., R. J. Culbertson, S. D. Whaley

Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504
Associated Retina Consultants, 7600 N 15th Street, Suite 155, Phoenix, AZ 85020

Citation: AIP Conf. Proc. 1336, 201 (2011); doi: 10.1063/1.3586089

The water affinity of Si-based surfaces is quantified by contact angle measurement and surface free energy to explain... more

Pharmacist intervention in primary care to improve outcomes in patients with left ventricular systolic dysfunction

by Frances Mair

This was a late breaking trial at the American Heart Association Mtg on 14 November 2011. It is the largest and longest  study of a pharmacist intervention for heart failure published to date. Co-authored with: Richard Lowrie, Nicola Greenlaw, Paul Forsyth, Pardeep S. Jhund, Alex McConnachie, Brian Rae and John J.V. McMurray.


Background Meta-analysis of small trials suggests that pharmacist-led collaborative review and revision of... more

Declerck, G., Charlet, J. (2011). Intelligence Artificielle, ontologies et connaissances en médecine. Les limites de la mécanisation de la pensée

by Gunnar Declerck

Prepublication version
Complete reference :
Declerck, G., Charlet, J. (2011). Intelligence Artificielle, ontologies et connaissances en médecine. Les limites de la mécanisation de la pensée. Revue d’Intelligence Artificielle (RIA), vol. 25, n°4, pp. 445-472, n° spécial « Intelligence artificielle et santé »

This theoretical article aims to draw up an inventory of the latest advances in medical knowledge engineering in the... more

Internet experiments: methods, guidelines, metadata

by Ulf-Dietrich Reips

published 2009 in Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XIV 7240(1), 724008. (Invited paper by the SPIE-IS&T Science and Technology Electronic Imaging societies)

The Internet experiment is now a well-established and widely used method. The present paper describes guidelines for... more

Multiphoton Molecular Photorelease in Click-Chemistry-Functionalized Gold Nanoparticles

by Valerio Voliani

SMALL, Vol 7, Is 23, pp 3271–3275, 2011

Yellow–green controlled photorelease: probes click-linked to peptide-coated gold nanospheres by a triazole ring can be... more

Words for Dying, Death, and Living

by Daniel Keeran MSW

by Daniel Keeran, MSW

Much of the content of this paper is from the chapter on Grief Counseling Skills in more

Field equations, quantum mechanics and geotropism

by Han Geurdes

The paper is about gravitropism in plants. However, I believe that there are further implications possible:

One constant form factor in the formation of 'life on earth' is gravity. Gravity is omnipresence and its influence on the formation and workings of the organism is easily overlooked. It was Darwin who noticed that plants do have orthogravity behavior independent of, but perhaps connected to, photoperiodism. In fungi, for instance, the exact positioning of the plant in the gravity field is crucial to the most effective spreading of spores.
If gravity conditions play such a crucial role in plant-life, it should be no surprise that gravity also is important in the machinery of animal life but is going to be even less noticed. The main idea of the research is that gravity medicine is not only restricted to spaceflight missions but perhaps can further the understanding of diseases that are difficult to cure under normal g=9.8 m/s2 gravity conditions. 
In a neuro-muscular autoimmune disease such as  Myasthenia Gravis (MG) there is a disbalance between Acetylcholine-esterase AChE) and the (production of) Acetylcholine (ACh). One may wonder how this condition of disballance arose in the cell but in aquired MG there once was a condition of balance that is disturbed with e.g. virus infection. If the virus, or the general disturbance, has put the cell in a greater level of stress apparently this stress continues to be present in further copies of the cell. However, if cell membranes can be 'chemically' or 'elastically' be relaxed perhaps the chemical balance between AChE and ACh will be restored. The patient will be less in need of corrective medcine and secondary cancer will most likely not evolve.  In plant science, artificial changes in gravity condition are enabled with the use of a clinostat or with special airplanes in so called parabolic flight.

The following study employs a mathematical  approach to unify field theories in order to understand the influence of weak gravity on biochemical processes.

The biochemistry of geotropism in plants and gravisensing in e.g. cyanobacteria or paramacia is still not well understood today. Perhaps there are more ways than one for organisms to sense gravity.
The two best known relatively old explanations for gravity sensing are sensing through the redistribution of cellular starch statoliths and sensing through redistribution of auxin. The starch containing statoliths in a gravity field produce pressure on the endoplasmic reticulum of the cell. This enables the cell to sense direction. Alternatively, there is the redistribution of auxin under the action of gravity. This is known as the Cholodny-Went hypothesis. The latter redistribution coincides with a redistribution of electrical charge in the cell.
In the present paper a unified field theory approach to gravisensing is advanced. In plants, the activity of e.g. Phytochrome and Zeatin is demonstrated to be changed under the influence of(weak) gravity. With the unified field theory advanced in the paper, conformational changes of biomolecules are derived. The advantage of the (Einstein like) unified field approach is that electromagnetic, quantum mechanical and (weak) gravity are put in one mathematical conceptual framework that allows direct biochemical testing. The evidence from the influence of e.g. Phytochrome on plants gravisensing is already known from studies in 1966. The only thing that was lacking was a proper chemical and physical explanation to suggest further experimentation and finally perhaps medical application.


The biochemistry of geotropism in plants and gravisensing in e.g. cyanobacteria or paramacia is still not well... more

Evaluating Complex Interventions and Health Technologies Using Normalization Process Theory: Development of a Simplified Approach and Web-Enabled Toolkit

by Frances Mair

Published in BMC Health Services Research 2011, 11:245.

Background
Normalization Process Theory (NPT) can be used to explain implementation processes in health care... more

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