Paucity

Retiring Government Doctors to Be Reappointed to Overcome Paucity of Specialists

The government of the southern Indian state of Kerala will now reappoint retiring government doctors to overcome the paucity of specialists// in certain areas. State Health Minister P.K. Sreemathy said retiring specialist doctors in four disciplines, general medicine, surgery, gynecology and an...

Severe Paucity of General Practitioners in Australia

The land of the Kangaroos is getting known for its severe dearth of general practitioners, further substantiated by recent research in this area. // Australia is in the throes of a severe GP crisis. The research published in the Medical Journal of Australia has revealed the current trend of Do...

Early detection of second breast cancers halves women's risk of death

...ll improve prognosis, since breast cancer survivors have a long-term risk of developing further disease or relapse in either breast. However, due to a paucity of evidence about this until now, current recommendations on surveillance of breast cancer survivors vary substantially between countries and organisa...

Major Shareholders Criticize Enzon Pharmaceuticals Management Team in Open Letter

...alter has also been one of the least accessible CEOs of a small biopharmaceutical company that we have ever come across. This has been evidenced by a paucity of meetings with investors, lack of presence at institutional investor conferences, and an apparent disinterest in responding to inquiries from shareh...

Research demonstrates differing genetic makeup of lung cancer in African-American patients

...ituto Clinico Humanitas IRCCS in Rozzano, Italy, sought to determine the frequency of EGFR abnormalities in African American patients since there is a paucity of data on this population. The study authors observed 53 African-American patients with resected non-small cell lung cancer and found few EGFR mutat...

Genetic Mutations Linked to Deadly Cancers

...to offer any firm conclusions. "It's a bit disappointing that so many of the mutations in these genes have already been known. There seems to be a paucity of really new findings," said Dr. Charis Eng, the Sondra J. and Stephen R. Hardis Chair of Cancer Genomic Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic and a profe...

Surveys Find Key Changes in the Role of the Pharmaceutical CFO

...ization, and cost pressures. This is in contrast with the global survey results for MNCs where compliance & risk are major change drivers. -- paucity of information that matters: Although 81% of respondents have implemented Enterprise Resource Planning systems, 50% of MNCs and 67% of IPCs ei...

Confronting the challenge of antimicrobial resistance

... a dearth of rapid diagnostic tests that would allow physicians to better gauge whether a given infection is drug-susceptible or drug-resistant, and a paucity of clinical trial data to guide therapeutic strategies. NIAID is meeting the complex challenge of antimicrobial resistance through a multifaceted ...

mtvU & The Jed Foundation Go Beyond 'March Madness,' Spring Break & 5th Anniversary of Iraq War, Dedicating March Programming to College Students' Mental Health

...ublic service announcements throughout the month, focused on the growing prevalence of student cutting, self-inflicted injuries, and how a paucity of mental health resources affects students and non-students alike. On air throughout the month and on demand at http://www.HalfofUs.com . -- N...

Comparison of antipsychotic treatments in adolescents with schizophrenia

... February 28, 2008 There is a wealth of scientific literature available on the treatment of adults diagnosed with schizophrenia. However, there is a paucity of data to guide the treatment of children and adolescents with schizophrenia. Although the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has recently appr...

Paucity in Medical Technology

Calixa Therapeutics Announces Initiation of Phase 2 Clinical Trial of Its Antibiotic, CXA-101, in Patients with Complicated Urinary Tract Infections

...es, LLC said, "With the continually increasing incidence of serious and life-threatening infections caused by resistant gram-negative bacteria and the paucity of new drugs in the pipeline to counter such resistance, we are working diligently to expedite the development of CXA-101. We are fully committed to ...

New Data Supports Significant Economic and Clinical Value of MENOPUR(R) in IVF

...duct and contains only rFSH. "Until recently, discussions regarding funding for infertility treatment services have been hindered by a relative paucity of economic studies of the specific treatments," points out study investigator Dr Jaro Wex from PharmArchitecture, UK. "Our new study compared ...

Avian (Bird) Flu: Is There a Role for Rapid Tests?

...the virus. Now that the H5N1 subtype has crossed the species barrier to humans, there is concern for human-to-human transmission. Given the presumed paucity of human resistance to the H5N1 subtype, infections could then reach pandemic proportions. This is particularly worrisome since the observed case fat...

Paucity in Biological News

Researchers find evidence linking stress caused by the Sept. 11 disaster with low birth weights

...emain unknown. Prof Eskenazi concluded: We have thoroughly reviewed the literature on preterm birth and low birth weight, and there is, thus far, a paucity of hard data to support the anecdotal information that women are more likely to have a spontaneous preterm birth immediately after a stressful event. ...

Vitamins: Science doesn't always match policy

...ribute health outcomes to vitamin use until we have more information. The best source of vitamins is food," he adds. To close the gap between the paucity of established scientific evidence and the widespread use of vitamin supplements, Rosenberg suggests that supplements be regulated, as they are curren...

Bird samples from Mongolia confirmed as H5N1 avian flu

...have happened either in close proximity to infected domestic poultry and waterfowl, or in regions where such contact could not be excluded, Mongolia's paucity of domestic poultry suggests a new vector of avian flu. Finding the H5N1 strain during this expedition suggests that while the highly pathogenic avian...

Habitat use by North Pacific right whales, Eubalaena japonica, in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska

...ecorder deployments along the slope are much anticipated. All sightings since 1979 were in waters less than 200 m deep which may simply reflect the paucity of search effort elsewhere. From the commercial whaling era to the late-1960s, right whales were commonly seen in waters greater than 2000 m deep, ind...

Paucity in Biological Technology

For nano, religion in US dictates a wary view

...le, also suggest that in the United States the public's knowledge of nanotechnology has been static since a similar 2004 survey. Scheufele points to a paucity of news media interest and the notion that people who already hold strong views on the technology are not necessarily seeking factual information abou...

WHO Introduces the Helminth Drug Initiative With Special Supplement in the Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery

...re responsible for a huge health burden on developing country populations, and the number of drugs available to treat them is incredibly limited. The paucity of products in development for helminth diseases has necessitated a focused initiative to boost the R&D pipeline for these diseases. Consultation meet...

Financing life science: The ongoing saga

...vest in later-stage companies or companies that already have done major deals with corporate pharmaceutical or biotech partners. The result has been a paucity of financing at the very earliest of stages except perhaps in California and Massachusetts, where the venture bet is on the serial entrepreneur that p...

Barriers will not stop convergence of medical technologies

...rgical disease? Nearly everyone will correctly identify diabetes as a medical disease caused by a relative lack of insulin in these patients. The paucity (and in some cases complete lack) of insulin has many effects. The most important is an increase in blood sugar which results from the fact that live...

Use of Transcriptor Reverse Transcriptase in Microarray Analysis

...he Cy5 channel. Compared with Transcriptor Reverse Transcriptase there is a much greater abundance of signals in the 0 5,000 class and relative paucity of signals in the higher fluorescence classes for product X. This signal distribution indicates that Transcriptor Reverse Transcriptase labels cDN...

Paucity in Biological Definition

Evolution

...ent outstanding debates is over the theory of punctuated equilibrium , a theory propounded by Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould to explain the paucity of transitional forms between phyla. Social effect of evolutionary theory Main article: Social effect of evolutionary theory As ...

Evolutionary biology

... paleontology , zoology and the like). Microbiology has recently developed into an evolutionary discipline. It was originally ignored due to the paucity of morphological traits and the lack of a species concept in microbiology. Now, evolutionary researchers are taking advantage our extensive understand...