Civil servants

A study of 398 male and 133 female civil servants in London, England, measured blood pressure, PbB, and serum creatinine concentration the study found no correlation between blood pressure and PbB after adjustment for significant covariates, including sex, age, cigarette smoking, alcohol intake, and body mass index in a stepwise multiple regression analysis (Staessen et al. 1990). 

Staessen J, Yeoman WB, Fletcher AE, et al. 1990. Blood lead concentration, renal function, and blood pressure in London civil servants. Br J Ind Med 47 442-447. 

She was one of those pretty, charming women who are born, as if by an error of Fate, into a petty official s family. She had no dowry,1 no hopes, nor the slightest chance of being loved and married by a rich man—so she slipped into marriage with a minor civil servant. 

Mr Leane is a 61-year-old retired civil servant who lives alone in a rural setting following the death of his wife 2 years ago. Mr Leane walks his two dogs at least twice a day he drinks wine in moderation. Mr Leane s elder brother died of a stroke 5 years ago. Clinical examination shows that he is not overweight, has a normal blood pressure but has some slightly yellow patches in the skin. 

NICE recommendations will have a major impact on the direction of industry research and development. It will also have major impact on politicians and civil servants who run the NHS, since NICE recommendations have already had considerable cost implications. 

Prominent within the EU organizational strueture is the European Commission. The Commission is composed of 20 commissioners (with at least one being from eaeh member state) and several thousand civil servants. The major funetion of the European Commission is to propose new EU legislation and to ensure enforeement of existing legislation (European drug law, therefore, comes under the auspices of the Commission). 

Some of EPA s programmatic and policy deficiencies can be ascribed to career civil servants with their own agendas, who manipulate EPA-inexperienced political appointees (most often lawyers). A pertinent example is Dr. Elizabeth Milewski, an EPA mid-level manager who has had primary responsibility for biotech policies in the Office of Pesticides and Toxic Substances. At a 1991 interagency meeting that I attended, she announced that the EPA could not accept a certain scientifically based policy because our constituency won t stand for it. ... 

Looking at Sweden s state bureaucracy from his perspective, as the head of a government, I would totally agree. Housed in spacious modern offices and supported by the latest advances in information technology, Sweden s civil servants are generally efficient, much more so than in most other countries, including the United States they are dutiful in the extreme and probably among the least corrupt (in the classical sense) in the whole world. However, there is a downside to the efficiency of the Swedish state machinery. 

Marmot, M.G., G.D. Smith, S. Stansfeld, C. Patel, F. North, J. Head, I. White, E. Brunner, and A. Feeney. 1991. Health inequalities among British civil servants The Whitehall II study. Lancet 337(8754) 1378-1393. 

I am indebted to many scientists across the globe for their input into the chapter, provision of information and references, and general stimulation of my interest in this application of QSAR. In particular, I would like to thank Mike Comber, Joanna Jaworska, John Walker, Chris Watts, Andrew Worth, and Maurice Zeeman. Further, I acknowledge the hard work, effort, and dedication of many scientists and civil servants worldwide who have endeavored to apply QSAR methods to regulatory decision-making processes. 

London, England - May 21, 1815, Bloomsbury, England) He served as a civil servant at the East India Company before he devoted himself to scientific pursuits and journalism. In 1797 he founded The Journal of Natural Philosophy, Chemistry and the Arts, generally known as Nicholsons Journal, which he published monthly until 1814. 

In England, a study was conducted with ten thousand civil servants. People in the lowest grades of the administration were at the highest risk for cardiovascular diseases. During work hours, their blood pressure went up. And the lower the person was on the administrative ladder, the higher the pressure went. 

The great crossroads that was the plan s point of departure has been variously interpreted as a symbol of Christ s cross or an Amazonian bow. Costa, however, referred to it as a monumental axis, the same term that Le Corbusier used to describe the center of many of his urban plans. Even if the axis represented a small attempt to assimilate Brasilia in some way to its national tradition, it remained a city that could have been anywhere, that provided no clue to its own history, unless that history was the modernist doctrine of ciam. It was a state-imposed city invented to project a new Brazil to Brazilians and to the world at large. And it was a state-imposed city in at least one other sense inasmuch as it was created to be a city for civil servants, many aspects of life that might otherwise have been left to the private sphere were minutely organized, from domestic and residential matters to health services, education, child care, recreation, commercial outlets, and so forth. 

Until 1998, the Medicines Commission consisted of an executive board, a chairman, four working parties and outside experts and consultants. Except for one general practitioner, all members are professors at different Belgian universities and are experts in either toxicopharmacology, clinical medicine, drug analysis and galenical pharmaceutics or veterinary medicine. The Secretariat of the Commission falls under the responsibility of the Inspector General, who is a pharmacist. In 1994 the inspectorate consisted in total of 28 civil servants (in 1982 the number was 37). 

The Medicines Commission also includes four civil servants (pharmacists) with an advisory capacity the inspector general of pharmacies the director of the Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology a pharmacist designated by the minister responsible for social security and the inspector general of the Radiation Protection Division (for radiopharmaceuticals and medicincil products treated with ionizing radiation). These civil servants can also be represented by their deputies. 

The Secretariat of the Medicines Commission is placed under the responsibility of the Inspector-General of Pharmaceutical Inspection and is staffed by civil servants appointed by the Minister. 

The aim of this instrument is to establish the regulations governing the State s reimbursement of the price of drugs prescribed to users of the National Health Service and beneficiaries of the Civil Servants Social Security Department s scheme (known as ADSE). 

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