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The benefits of point-of-care ultrasound

Claudiu Padurean

Rapid and accurate acquisition of basic diagnostic information through the innovative concept of point of care ultrasound can have significant benefits for patient outcome, costs, reducing mortality and medical-legal risk scenarios. These benefits of point-of-care (POC) ultrasound will be highlighted during a WFUMB session by Italian critical care physician Professor Luca Neri, founder and past president of WINFOCUS. He will outline how the concept can significantly empower feasibility, accuracy, efficacy and greater effectiveness of healthcare services, particularly when delivered to out- and in-patients in critical scenarios, Mark Nicholls reports

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Global Economic Downturn: A Crisis of Political Economy Read more: Global Economic Downturn: A Crisis of Political Economy | STRATFOR

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By George FriedmanClassical political economists like Adam Smith or David Ricardo never used the term “economy” by itself. They always used the term “political economy.” For classical economists, it was impossible to understand politics without economics or economics without politics. The two fields are certainly different but they are also intimately linked. The use of the term “economy” by itself did not begin until the late 19th century. Smith understood that while an efficient market would emerge from individual choices, those choices were framed by the political system in which they were made, just as the political system was shaped by economic realities. For classical economists, the political and economic systems were intertwined, each dependent on the other for its existence.

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Analyst Lauren Goodrich examines the reasons behind Moscow’s plan to privatize strategic Russian firms. Read more: Dispatch: Russian Privatization and Modernization

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Analyst Lauren Goodrich examines the reasons behind Moscow’s plan to privatize strategic Russian firms.(http://www.stratfor.com/analysis/20110801-dispatch-russian-privatization-and-modernization?utm_source=freelist-f&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20110802&utm_term=gweekly&utm_content=videotitle&elq=10f23edaa0f84823b2e2962fbd2d105a)The Russian government submitted its revised list for Russian privatization to President Dmitri Medvedev today. It’s one of the world’s largest privatization programs in years, as well as a controversial one inside of Russia.

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Geopolitical Journey: Indonesia’s Global Significance

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By George FriedmanI am writing this from Indonesia. Actually, that is not altogether a fair statement. I am at the moment in Bali and just came from Jakarta. The two together do not come close to being Indonesia. Jakarta, the capital, is a vast city that is striking to me for its traffic. It takes an enormous amount of time to get anywhere in Jakarta. Like most cities, it was not built to accommodate cars, and the mix of cars with motor scooters results in perpetual gridlock. It is also a city of extraordinary dynamism. There is something happening on almost every street. And in the traffic jams, you have time to contemplate those streets in detail.

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Transilvania Bank reports double net profit of RON 65 mln, to H1, 2010

Claudiu Padurean

Transilvania Bank has posted a net income of RON 65 million for the first half of 2011, almost double to the RON 33 million recorded in the first semester of 2010. Net trade incomes increased by 20 percent and net interest income increased by 2 percent from RON 491 million in the first half of 2010 to RON 500 million. Net fee and commission incomes totaled RON 177 million, without significant changes. The operating result decreased year on year from RON 390 million to RON 380 million in the first half of 2011, risk provisions were reduced from RON 330 million in the first half of 2010 by RON 34 million, to RON 295 million.

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