Individual testimonies to nursing care after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Aim: The aim of the present research is to clarify the nursing care conducted just before and after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima in 1945.

Methods: Five surviving nurses, who were registered nursing staff at that time in Hiroshima, offered to participate in this research. Individual interviews were conducted in order to obtain the information concerning the nursing activities in the disaster-stricken areas.

The guideline of the personal health data structure to secure safety healthcare. The balance between use and protection to satisfy the patients' needs.

Purpose: To inform about the impact of a recent movement towards a policy to develop integrative networked electronic health record (EHR) as a basis for cooperation among care teams and with patients and in support of safe patient care in Japan.

Methods: The author headed a commission developing policy for health record (HR) structure and its computerization. It executed two questionnaire surveys as the basis for its work.

Reversible fluorescence labeling of amino groups of protein using dansylaminomethylmaleic anhydride.

The reversible fluorescence labeling of insulin, catalase and lysozyme has been demonstrated. As a derivatizing reagent, dansylaminomethylmaleic acid (DAM) has been used after investigating the precolumn and precapillary derivatization conditions. This reagent (DAM) reacts with the amino groups of proteins via its anhydride in the presence of a suitable dehydrating reagent, which then could be liberated under mild acidic conditions and the native proteins are regenerated.