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Pervasive computing has numerous applications, but it offers particular potential to the pharmaceutical and health care industries by facilitating the transmission and collection of biological data on a real-time basis outside a clinical setting. That, in turn, means it can be used to monitor patients and manage their health to test new drugs in totally different ways and to deliver health care anywhere, anytime [13]. 

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has established guidelines on the use of diet pills. These guidelines are used by health-care practitioners both within and outside the United States. The information contained in these guidelines helps to determine who should and should not use weight loss medications. This is important because people who use diet pills inappropriately risk potentially devastating effects on their health. 

The same type of reaction can result from overt or covert racial prejudice. A large body of research supports the idea that ethnic-minority clients frequendy receive qualitatively worse care and quantitatively less attention from health care professionals in clinics and hospital. Sometimes a professional is not even aware of treating ethnic-minority clients differently than White clients. Again, counselors and therapists need to observe their own clinical behavior and note when they may be treating clients differently to identify whether there is a racial pattern to that trend. Another way to check on biases is to observe your personal behavior outside the office If you are engaging in biased behavior outside work, you likely will be engaging in biased behavior while at work, even if you attempt not to be. 

We recently surveyed pharmaceutical companies producing antidepressant medication or central nervous system (CNS) stimulants for the European market. Approval for use of such drugs in children and adolescents is limited worldwide. Sertraline, clomipramine, and flu-voxamine have been approved for use in children (for some drugs down to the age of 6 years) for OCD in some European countries (the most wide spread approval being for sertraline in Austria, France, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Denmark) and countries outside Europe. Methyl-phenidate has been approved for the treatment of children with ADHD in a number of European and non-European countries (Novartis Health care A/S, personal communication). 

In turn, EHS will typically refer to a disaster as a natural or man-made phenomenon that results in the destruction or dysfunction of the available response infrastructure to meet the community s need for health care (ASTM F-30 Committee, 1996 Auf der Heide, 1989 Emergency Medical Services Committee, 2001 FEMA, 1992). Thus in the case of a hurricane or power outage, only a few injured people may require medical care however, because the health system infrastructure may have been destroyed, the disaster may clearly require outside assistance to meet the health care demands of the community. This type of disaster is sometimes referred to as a paralytic disaster because it has the potential to eliminate the EHS s ability to respond to any call for services, let alone extra demands for care resulting from the event. 

The majority of formulations that are filled into capsules are dry powder mixtures. The methods of measuring the dose can be divided up into two groups dependent and independent. The dependent machines use the capsule body directly to measure the dose of powder, whereas the independent machines use a separate device. The literature available on the mechanics of capsule filling is limited when compared to that available for tabletting. Part of the reason for this is that tablets, unlike capsules, are used in a wide range of industries outside the health-care sector, and thus there have been many more workers in the field. 

Health Care Systems Outside the United States... 

EtO is used outside the health care industry as well. Actually, only a small fraction of EtO is used as a... 

Different vaccines and immunization strategies have been evaluated in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden (5). Few places outside Scandinavia have collected data on Hib immunization programs for so long (more than a decade has elapsed since universal Hib immunization was initiated in Scandinavia) and with similar accuracy. Phase 3 studies with PRP-D-Hib vaccine were done in Finland in the late 1980s, and PRP-D-Hib vaccine has been the only vaccine used in Iceland. HbOC vaccine was first compared with PRP-D-Hib vaccine in Finland and then reintroduced to the primary health-care system as the only Hib vaccine used. Finally, PRP-T-Hib vaccine was first temporarily used in Finland, and then as almost the only vaccine in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Besides the different conjugate vaccines, the immunization programs have differed in other aspects, such as immunization schedule and administration of vaccines (separate versus simultaneous administration with other vaccines, such as DT, DTP, DTaP, IPV, or MMR). 

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