The International Society for Ceramics in Medicine is established to recognize, encourage and stimulate outstanding research contributions to the field of bioceramics and is annually presented during the Bioceramics International Symposium and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine. The Symposium and Annual Meeting of the International Society for Ceramics in Medicine, known as Bioceramics, provides a valuable forum where scientists and clinicians working in the dental and medical fields can discuss the exciting advances made in basic and applied research, and promote new technologies and applications of ceramics in medicine. In Bioceramics, the papers have been categorized into most topical and essential themes of ceramics in medicine: including characterization, design and processing technologies, tissue engineering, nanotechnology, surface modification, composites, drug delivery and interdisciplinary studies. The work will thus be of great help in taking advantage of the merits of ceramics, and overcoming their weakness in various applications involving polymers and metals. A November 2011 symposium provided a forum for scientists and clinicians in dental and medical fields to discuss new technologies and applications of ceramics in medicine and dentistry. Papers from the symposium are collected here in 21 sections on topics including alumina/zirconia ceramics, apatites, bioglasses and glass-ceramics, biomimetics, bone substitutes, calcium phosphate ceramics, cell materials interactions, and dements. Other main themes are clinical applications, coatings and composites, dental materials, drug delivery carriers, injectable materials, nanomaterials, osteoconductivity, porous materials, scaffolds, tissue engineering, titanium and alloys, and other materials. Some specific topics include pore morphology in MAO-produced oxide film, fabrication of bioactive apatite nuclei-precipitated composites, grafting materials for major sinus lift, and regulating protein absorption onto hydroxyapatite. Other subjects are nanobioceramics production from razor shell, improvement of bone growth on a PEEK surface implant, and adhesion behaviors of serum proteins on an oxide layer of commercially pure titanium.
Introduction: The standard precautions advanced by the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in 1996, goals of Standard precautions to reducing the risk of transmission of blood-borne and other pathogens in hospitals. The prpous of this study :to assess the knowledge and compliance of standard precautions...Read More
Androgen insensitivity syndrome is the most frequent etiology of disorders of sex development in 46,XY individuals. It is characterized by evidence of feminization of the external genitalia at birth, abnormal secondary sexual development in puberty, and male infertility. It is an X-linked recessive disease caused by alterations in the...Read More
Background: We report a case of a patient with metastatic breast cancer that was treated with a novel magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia approach for the treatment of solid tumors comprising of systemic administration of iron oxide multicore encapsulated nanoparticles, named Sarah Nanoparticles (SaNPs), and Alternating Magnetic Field (AMF) irradiation. Case...Read More
Objective: Nursing ethics is the rational and sustainable use of communication, knowledge, clinical skills, emotions and values in nursing practice. This study aimed to discover and explain factors that affect nursing ethics in nursing practice at Aksum university hospital. This qualitative study was conducted using content analysis approach. Twenty...Read More
