Disease relevance of Public Opinion

• A proposed new international TNM staging system for malignant pleural mesothelioma from the International Mesothelioma Interest Group [1].

High impact information on Public Opinion

• BACKGROUND: The 1999 Institute of Medicine report on medical errors proposed major changes to the health care system and gained widespread media attention, yet there is limited information on physician or public opinion regarding recommendations from that report [2].
• On 19 August 2002, a group of basic scientists, clinicians, environmental health researchers, and public interest groups gathered at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, to discuss ongoing research on these topics [3].
• PURPOSE: International surveys on knowledge and attitudes toward people with epilepsy suggest that public opinion is improving in many countries [4].
• Manpower studies for the United States. Part II. Demand for eye care. A public opinion poll based upon a Gallup poll survey [5].
• ESHRE guidelines for good practice in IVF laboratories. Committee of the Special Interest Group on Embryology of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology [6].

Biological context of Public Opinion

• The 8th Meeting of the Alcohol and Immunology Research Interest Group (AIRIG) was held at Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, Illinois, USA, on November 21, 2003 [7].

Associations of Public Opinion with chemical compounds

• Compared to the inspiratory and expiratory threshold loading test, the histamine challenge test identified more patients in the special interest group as poorest perceivers [8].
• A survey of public opinion was conducted utilizing a random sample of 501 adults in Orange County, CA in an attempt to identify demographic correlates of attitudes [9].
• The clinical trials and angiographic studies of cholesterol lowering have been of decisive importance in persuading scientific and public opinion that elevated serum cholesterol is a causal element in the chain of events leading to CHD and that treatment by diet and drugs is effective in lowering the risk of CHD [10].
• Republican schoolmaster: the U.S. Supreme Court, public opinion and abortion [11].
• Medical and public opinion about cocaine use have shifted dramatically over the past decade [12].

Gene context of Public Opinion

• Public opinion, the NHS, and the media: changing patterns and perspectives [13].
• Public Consultation. Does public opinion matter? (Yes/no/don't know) [14].
• Tabulated survey results and a review and discussion of future directions in skin banking and replacement research are discussed in this paper and were presented to the Tissue Bank Special Interest group at the 1993 American Burn Association annual meeting [15].
• Networks were formed, leading to collaborative regional and national presentations and formation of an APA Faculty Development Special Interest Group. Participants reported increased recruitment of training sites and preceptors, with enhanced relationships [16].
• Power and interest groups: a study of ANA and AMA [17].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Public Opinion

• Yet despite a surfeit of public opinion polls and widespread opining in the news media on the topic of human cloning, there have been no empirical studies comparing the views of scientists and Christian fundamentalists in this debate (see Evans, 2002a for a recent study of opinion polls assessing religion and attitudes toward cloning) [18].
• Targeted radiotherapy review meeting. Report on a meeting organized by the BIR Nuclear Medicine Committee and the IPEM Radionuclide Special Interest Group, held at the British Institute of Radiology, London, 11 February 1997 [19].

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