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Reports on the release of public-hearing results regarding biomedical literature in the U.S. in 1987. Key issues of interest; Analysis of pertinent issues and relevant topics; Implications on libraries and library science.

Reports on the statement of a British team in `Nature' periodical refuting the claim of pharmacologist Jacques Benveniste that extremely diluted medicines can treat illnesses. Gist of Benveniste's paper; Members of the British; Agreement to repeat Beneviste's experiments for the Research Council for Complementary Medicine.

This article focuses on the MRCGP exam. One is weeks away from the exam and some candidates will be feeling overwhelmed with the sheer volume of material to tackle. It is not too late for a coordinated systematic approach to one's revision. Good planning is essential. The written paper consists of 12 questions to be answered in 3 hours. Paper 2 is the 3-hour multiple choice question (MCQ) paper. The vast majority of questions in the MCQ paper are based on medicine. Fifteen percent of questions are concerned with administration and management, and one in five questions are dedicated to research, epidemiology and statistics.

The author expresses disappointment over a paper published in the British medical journal "Lancet" which reported that hydroxychloroquine both was ineffective at treating the coronavirus and caused cardiac implications. He details some of the recent reports which investigated the use of some drugs in treating COVID-19 pandemic, such as dexamethasone and remdesivir. He also explains why ophthalmologists are very familiar with hydroxycholorquine.

The article focuses on the "White Paper on Expanding the Role of Pharmacists in Caring for Individuals with Alzheimer's Disease" published in the November/December 2008 issue of the "Journal of the American Pharmacists Association." The paper, a summary discussions from a meeting of experts convened by the American Pharmacists Association (APhA) Foundation, lists the areas that could involve pharmacists in improving care for patients with the disease, such as identifying practices in collaborative care and giving overall medication for patients.

The article presents information from the field of medicine. A recent paper in pediatrics showed that employing clown in the operating suite helps to relax anxious children about to be given an anesthetic. Adolescents who eat large amounts of fried food away from home are heavier and more likely to have a poor quality of diet. When it comes to how patients prefer to take medication, there is a stereotypical picture that the French prefer to take medication rectally, Germans by intramuscular injection, and the British prefer a long course of tablets.

Philosopher Michel Foucault is widely quoted in academic nursing papers, but do we really understand him? Daniel Allen went on a mission to find out more about the man and his relevance to nursing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the life and works of Francis Bernard Chavasse who made a valuable contribution to ophthalmology with his novel techniques and devices. Medicine and the military were part of Chavasse's life. He specialises in ophthalmology, and the papers he delivered to the Ophthalmological Society and at the Northern and Oxford Congresses made his reputation.

The article reports on the publication of the white paper entitled "Safety Supervision of Medicines in China." It is outlined that the total production of the pharmaceutical industry in the country has increased. Meanwhile, information about a group of plant medicines and natural medicines that have been manufactured and used in China are mentioned.

This article reports developments related to the field of medicine. The consultation paper "Choosing Health: Making Healthy Choices Easier," was published in December 2004. It sets a range of public health initiatives for English PCTs to implement over the next four years. The DoH has published the results of the GP Recruitment and Retention Survey 2004. Thirteen percent of respondents who expressed an opinion perceived the recruitment process to be easier than in the past 5 years, compared to 9 percent in 2003.

Reports that the United States National Institutes of Health's PubMed Central, the free but not yet realized Web site for medical science papers, has received two votes of confidence. How the votes came from a publisher's project and a European program; Details on the plans for PubMed; Details on BioMed Central, which will forge an alliance with PubMed; Outlook for the Web site.