PRESCRIPTION DRUG OVERDOSE: BETWEEN PATIENTS AND THEIR DOCTORS

Prescription drug overdose: between patients and their doctors

Walter Ling,1 Li-Tzy Wu21Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Science, Integrated Substance Abuse Programs, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA; 2Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USAPrescription drug overdoses, mainly involving prescription opioids, have reached epidemic

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Building interdisciplinary leadership skills among health practitioners in the 21st century: an innovative training model

Transformational learning is the focus of 21st century global educational reforms.In India there is a need to amalgamate the skills and knowledge of medical, nursing and public health practitioners and to develop robust leadership competencies among them.This initiative proposed to identify interdisciplinary leadership competencies among Indian hea

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Serum proteomic profiling of precancerous gastric lesions and early gastric cancer reveals signatures associated with systemic inflammatory response and metaplastic differentiation

The noninvasive detection technique using serum for large-scale screening is useful for the early diagnosis of gastric cancer (GC).Herein, we employed liquid chromatography mass spectrometry to determine the serum proteome signatures and related pathways in individuals with gastric precancerous (pre-GC) lesions and GC and explore the effect of Heli

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