Wholesale data for surveillance of Australian Aboriginal tobacco consumption in the Northern Territory.

Objectives: Effective monitoring of trends in tobacco use is an essential element of tobacco control policy. Monitoring tobacco consumption using tobacco wholesale data has advantages over other methods of surveillance. In the present work, a research project that monitored tobacco consumption in 25 remote Aboriginal communities and its translation to a policy to implement this monitoring routinely in the entire Northern Territory of Australia is described.

A successful nurse-led model in the elective orthopaedic admissions process.

Aim: To document a nurse-led admissions process for same day orthopaedic surgery, on relatively fit patients under 70 years of age.

Methods: Patients undergoing minor surgery, under 70 years of age, and with a body mass index (BMI) of <35, were selected from the total of patients being admitted for elective orthopaedic surgery under the Accident Compensation Commission (ACC) contract. The nurse-led project relied primarily on an admission questionnaire, on physician consultation notes, and on previous clinical records.

Heparan 2-O-sulfotransferase, hst-2, is essential for normal cell migration in Caenorhabditis elegans.

The importance of heparan sulfate proteoglycans has been highlighted by a number of human genetic disorders associated with mutations in genes encoding for heparan sulfate proteoglycan protein cores or biosynthetic enzymes required for heparan sulfate (HS) assembly. To study the functional role of HS in Caenorhabditis elegans development cosmid sequence C34F6.4 was identified as the C.