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Early immune development, atopy and asthma: insights from ATS 2001, May 18-23, San Francisco
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There is rising evidence that the initiation of atopy and asthma may occur in early life or even during fetal life. At the American Thoracic Society meeting 2001 in... -
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13th Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Rome, Italy, 1-4 October 2000
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13th Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, Rome, Italy, 1-4 October 2000 -
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Korean women: breast cancer knowledge, attitudes and behaviors
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Introduction Clustered within the nomenclature of Asian American are numerous subgroups, each with their own ethnic heritage, cultural, and linguistic... -
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Bone loss: Epidemiology of bone loss
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Bone loss occurs when the cellular events of bone formation are quantitatively larger than bone formation. This manuscript discusses the measurement of bone loss,... -
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Breast cancer mortality among Ashkenazi Jewish women in São Paulo and Porto Alegre, Brazil
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Background Increased BRCA1 and BRCA2 germline mutation rates have been reported in Ashkenazi Jewish women in North America, Europe and Israel, and have been mentioned... -
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Systematic assessment of the quality of osteoporosis guidelines
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Background Numerous agencies have developed clinical practice guidelines for the management of postmenopausal osteoporosis. The study objective was to conduct a... -
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The society of genes: networks of functional links between genes from comparative genomics
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Comparative genomics provides at least three methods for identifying functional links between genes: examination of phylogenetic distributions, analysis of conserved... -
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A comparison of the illness beliefs of people with angina and their peers: a questionnaire study
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Background What people believe about their illness may affect how they cope with it. It has been suggested that such beliefs stem from those commonly held within... -
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The 26thCongress of the Scandinavian Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Tromso, Norway, 13-17 June 2001
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The Congress took place at the northernmost academic center in the world, in the state-of-the art Tromso University Hospital. There were over 500 participants, mainly... -
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The average cost of measles cases and adverse events following vaccination in industrialised countries
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Background Even though the annual incidence rate of measles has dramatically decreased in industrialised countries since the implementation of universal immunisation... -
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Primary ciliary dyskinesia: a report from ATS 2001, May 18–23, San Francisco
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Primary ciliary dyskinesia (PCD) is a genetic disorder of abnormal ciliary structure and function that leads to defective mucociliary clearance, resulting in oto-... -
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The missions of medical schools:
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Mission statements and role documents of medical schools in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia have been examined on their Internet Web sites and... -
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The 'four principles of bioethics' as found in 13
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Background There have been different ethical approaches to the issues in the history of philosophy. Two American philosophers Beachump and Childress formulated some... -
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International variation in ethics committee requirements: comparisons across five Westernised nations
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Background Ethics committees typically apply the common principles of autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice to research proposals but with variable... -
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Continuing medical education in Turkey: Recent developments
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Background The Turkish Association of Medicine founded a Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee in 1993 to evaluate and accredit scientific meetings and... -
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Types and frequency of preanalytical mistakes in the first Thai ISO 9002:1994 certified clinical laboratory, a 6 – month monitoring
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Background Reliability cannot be achieved in a clinical laboratory through the control of accuracy in the analytical phase of the testing process alone. Indeed a... -
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Effect of paper quality on the response rate to a postal survey: A randomised controlled trial. [ISRCTN32032031]
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Background Response rates to surveys are declining and this threatens the validity and generalisability of their findings. We wanted to determine whether paper... -
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Survey of stress ulcer prophylaxis
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Background: No surveys of stress ulcer prophylaxis prescribing in the USA have been conducted since 1995. Since that time, the most comprehensive meta-analysis and... -
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New approaches to the modulation of inflammatory processes in airway disease models: ATS 2001, May 18-23, San Francisco
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The 97th American Thoracic Society meeting proved to be an excellent meeting, providing a wealth of new information on inflammatory diseases of the airways. Once... -
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Blending science and compassion: The 30th educational symposium of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco, USA, 10-14 February 2001
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Blending science and compassion: The 30th educational symposium of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco, USA, 10-14 February 2001