A joint meeting of the medical societies in India took place in Chennai in August 2012, giving rise to national recommendations and an action plan to address the challenge of antimicrobial resistance in India. The 'Chennai Declaration', published in November 2012, has a pragmatic achievable plan and represents a bold ...

The endemic South American mammals Meridiolestida, considered previously as dryolestoid cladotherians, are found to be non-cladotherian trechnotherians related to spalacotheriid symmetrodontans based on a parsimony analysis of 137 morphological characters among 44 taxa. Spalacotheriidae is the sister taxon to Meridiolestida, and the latter clade is derived from a primitive spalacolestine ...

ABSTRACT: Dyce Sombre was an Indian prince who lost his kingdom but inherited a vast fortune. He arrived in England and became a member of the Parliament. His wife's family had him declared as a lunatic. He escaped to France and tried unsuccessfully to be declared sane again. He was ...

A steering committee of the Asian Australasian Society of Neurological Surgeons (AASNS) first met on 17 October, 1961, and between 29 and 31 October 1964, the First Congress was held in Canberra, Australia. A Constitution was accepted and Sir Ian (Douglas) Miller was elected as the first President. The Society ...

ABSTRACT: A report on the 4th International Conference on Quantitative Genetics (ICQG4), Edinburgh, UK, June 17-22, 2012.

ABSTRACT: A report on the Bio-IT World Asia meeting, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore, 6-8 June 2012.

These minutes are the official record of the actions of the Association taken during the year by both the Board of Directors (the Board) and the Council of Representatives (Council). The roll of representatives was called at each Council meeting, and more than a quorum answered to their names. Reference ...

Lists the 2012 officers, boards, committees, and representatives of the American Psychological Association. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2012 APA, all rights reserved).

The chair, board and staff are essential contributors to meaningful meeting dialogue.

OBJECTIVE:: To examine Asian American (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asian, Philippine and South Pacific Islands, and Middle East) representation in national organizations and editorial boards important in US academic surgery. BACKGROUND:: Asian Americans are overrepresented in academic departments of surgery relative to their demographic proportion of US population. ...

A group of individuals who share common beliefs form a culture in which they communicate their values and attributes about certain aspects of society. Sex education remains one of the early teachings that humans experience irrespective of the race or level of development of a given society. However, different cultures ...

A report on the Keystone symposium 'Non-coding RNAs' held at Snowbird, Utah, USA, 31 March to 5 April 2012.

The American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy (ASGE) is dedicated to advancing patient care and digestive health by promoting excellence in gastrointestinal endoscopy. The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (ASMBS) is dedicated to improving public health and well-being by lessening the burden of the disease of obesity and related ...

While there is an ethical obligation to improve clinical outcomes by developing better therapies, surgical innovation has largely progressed without the strict regulations required of novel pharmaceutical products. We explore the reasons why new surgical techniques are frequently introduced without the benefit of randomised controlled trials, and present an approach ...

Providing resourceful solutions to common facility management challenges can require many steps, including internal and external research, evaluating potential options, and implementing new protocols. The outpatient surgical services administrator at the Surgical Center of York and the Endoscopy Center of Memorial Hospital, York, Pennsylvania, addressed the challenge of managing and ...

Human society has changed much over the last centuries and this process of 'modernization' has profoundly affected the lives of individuals; currently we live quite different lives from those forefathers lived only five generations ago. There is difference of opinion as to whether we live better now than before and ...

Deadlines for registration for the 1995 Certifying Examinations of the American Board of Pediatrics are presented in this issue of the Archives. Please direct inquiries to the American Board of Pediatrics, 111 Silver Cedar Ct, Chapel Hill, NC 27514, or telephone (919)929-0461.

Homepage of the IUFRO special project World Forests, Society and Environment Project (WFSE), initiated in 1996. The aim of the project is to monitor and analyse key issues concerning global forests and sustainable forest development. The website gives details of the project and its activities, partners, current news, publications and ...