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Medical Sciences	50%

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Prescribing antibiotics in odontology and stomatology.

FUNDAMENTAL & CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY, Issue 6 2003
Recommendations by the French Health Products Safety Agency
Abstract In order to limit the onset of adverse effects and the increasing emergence of bacterial resistance, the prescription of antibiotics must be reserved strictly for situations where their efficacy has been demonstrated. The French Health Products Safety Agency (Afssaps) has updated recommendations concerning the use of antibiotic treatment in odontology and stomatology. The general strategy for the prescription of antibiotics proposed by the present recommendations relies on a professional consensus. The full-length, discussed and referenced text is available at the web site of Afssaps (http://www.afssaps.sante.fr) in the ,Documentation et publications' rubric. [source]

Creating culturally sensitive and community-sensitive measures of development

NEW DIRECTIONS FOR CHILD & ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENT, Issue 98 2002
Nancy A. Busch-Rossnagel
Research with ethnic minority and subcultural groups is often stymied by measures developed on samples of European Americans. This chapter presents recommendations to help researchers create measures that are sensitive to both the culture and the communities of research participants. [source]

Recommendations for Integrating Restoration Ecology and Conservation Biology in Ponderosa Pine Forests of the Southwestern United States

RESTORATION ECOLOGY, Issue 1 2006
Reed F. Noss
Abstract Over the past century, ponderosa pine,dominated landscapes of the southwestern United States have been altered by human activities such as grazing, timber harvest, road building, and fire exclusion. Most forested areas within these landscapes now show increased susceptibility to stand-replacing fires, insect outbreaks, and drought-related mortality. Recent large wildfires in the region have spurred public interest in large-scale fuel reduction and restoration programs, which create perceived and real conflicts with the conservation of biodiversity. Conservation concerns include the potential for larger road networks, soil and understory disturbance, exotic plant invasion, and the removal of large trees in treated areas. Pursuing prescribed burning, thinning, or other treatments on the broad scale that many scientists and managers envision requires the reconciliation of ecological restoration with biodiversity conservation. This study presents recommendations from a workshop for integrating the principles and practices of restoration ecology and conservation biology, toward the objective of restoring the composition, structure, and function of dry ponderosa pine forests. Planning on the scale of hundreds of thousands of hectares offers opportunities to achieve multiple objectives (e.g., rare species protection and restoration of ecological structures and processes) that cannot easily be addressed on a site-by-site basis. However, restoration must be coordinated with conservation planning to achieve mutual objectives and should include strict guidelines for protection of rare, declining, and sensitive habitats and species. [source]

Framing Disparities Along the Continuum of Care from Chronic Kidney Disease to Transplantation: Barriers and Interventions

AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TRANSPLANTATION, Issue 4 2009
K. Ladin
Research in renal transplantation continues to document scores of disparities affecting vulnerable populations at various stages along the transplantation process. Given that both biological and environmental determinants contribute significantly to variation, identifying factors underlying an unfairly biased distribution of the disease burden is crucial. Confounded definitions and gaps in understanding causal pathways impede effectiveness of interventions aimed at alleviating disparities. This article offers an operational definition of disparities in the context of a framework aimed at facilitating interventional research. Utilizing an original framework describing the entire continuum of the transplant process from diagnosis of chronic kidney disease through successful transplant, this article explores the case of racial disparities, illustrating key factors predicting and perpetuating disparities. Though gaps in current research leave us unable to identify which stages of the transplant pathway adversely affect most people, by identifying key risk factors across the continuum of care, this article highlights areas suited for targeted interventions and presents recommendations for improvement and future research. [source]