Medical art are essential in consumer health education,facilitating consumers to un-derstand medical concepts,invisible body parts and complex pathology. This paper reviewed the origin and development medical arts,analyzed the characteristics of medical arts specific for consumers rather than professionals,and discussed the opportunities and challenges of medical arts in internet era.

Deletions,insertions,duplications,and complex multi-site variants,now formally termed copy number variations(CNVs),are regions larger than 1 kb that are present with variable copy numbers in comparison with the reference genome.CNVs in humans and other mammals are associated with a series of complex genetic diseases including congenital heart disease.The studies of CNVs have become hot topics.This review mainly discusses the principle of CNVs,the detection techniques and CNVs in the pathogenesis of congenital heart

Acromegaly is usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone(GH) for a prolonged period from a pituitary adenoma along with increased levels of insulin-like growth factor-1(IGF-1), which leads to acral and soft tissue enlargement and metabolic dysfunction, such as cardiovascular system or glucose metabolism. Its features are elevated plasma GH/IGF-1 concentrations, however the biochemical tests remain challenging.

Childhood asthma and obesity are significant public health problems all over the world.In the past decades,the prevalence of both diseases has increased considerably.Because both asthma and obesity appear to have their beginnings in early childhood,common exposures that predispose individuals to both conditions may explain how they are associated.These exposures include common genetic predictors,prenatal exposure to specific nutrients and overall maternal nutrition, colonization patterns of the neonatal and infant gut,birth weight and infant weight gain,and sedentary behaviors in early life.

Objective: To investigate the understanding of other' s mind in children with autism in Beijing.Method: The instrument of this study was experimental test story. Results: Children with autism could understand other person' s physical and social desire, and predict behavior of others in accordance with desires. They basically unerstood other' s positive and negative emotions. However, they had a special difficult in understanding other' s cognitive mental states such as false belief. Concluslon: It indicated that the development of understanding other' s mental state is much more gradual and complex. Understandding other' s false belief is not all or nothing. The difference in understanding other's false belief between children with autism is not absolute, but relative.

The present situation of data acquisition of principal diagnosis on front page were introduced and analyzed,the importance of selection and filling out the principal diagnosis on from page were expounded.Meanwhile,how to select the principal diagnosis correctly,clear and definite the definition of Principal Diagnosis,rule of selection of principal diagnosis were also introduced.Besides,some experience on how to select the principal diagnosis were presented.All of these,that analyzing the present situation and the problems of principal diagnosis,in order to assisting medical staff to select principal diagnosis correctly.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the status quo and feature of the distribution rationality of licensed pharmacists in different regions in China in recent 2 years.METHODS: Using "per capita licensed pharmacists every ten thousand people" as index to contrast and analyze the distribution of licensed pharmacists.SPSS13.0 statistical analysis software was used to calculate the distribution Tail index(TI) of licensed pharmacists in the east,middle,and west regions of China taking population and GDP as weight.RESULTS: The distribution of licensed pharmacists in the east region in China was more intensive;TI was far greater when using population as weight than using GDP as weight,and all TI decreased in the past 2 years.CONCLUSIONS: The licensed pharmacists should be distributed rationally according to the practical demand on pharmaceutical care,and the government should intensify the education and training of licensed pharmacists in the middle and west regions of China.

OBJECTIVE:To investigate the status quo and the feature of licensed pharmacists in Hubei province to provide experimental reference and policy bases for the concerned governmental department in making decision about management regulations. METHODS: 486 licensed pharmacists who came to attend the continuing education were investigated by questionnaire survey and personal interview regarding their essential information, social approval, and attitude towards their profession etc. RESULTS: The obtained essential information of the licensed pharmacists in Hubei province revealed that the majority of them regarded that they failed to bring their role in into full play in their daily work and their social approval degree was low; as for attitude towards their profession, most of the interviewees responded that the evolvement of policy is the important factor to bring into the role of licensed pharmacists into full play, meanwhile they thought highly of the active role of continuing education. Different type of licensed pharmacists have different needs, to satisfy the diversified needs, a pertinent study is needed. CONCLUSION: The government should establish licensed pharmacists law as soon as possible to identify the legal position of licensed pharmacists and solve their orientation problem so as to bring their role into full play.

OBJECTIVE:To survey the implementation of pharmaceutical care in various levels of medical institutions in Shanghai and introduce the foreign experience in order to find out defect and orientation in the field of pharmaceutical care in China. METHODS:The pharmaceutical care practices of clinical pharmacists in sampled hospitals were surveyed using questionnaire in order to survey the status quo of the implementation of clinical pharmacy projects in various levels of hospitals in Shanghai. The focused projects were evaluated to analyze the advantage and disadvantage of pharmaceutical care provided by clinical pharmacists in various levels of hospitals and orientation of pharmaceutical care in the future. RESULTS:Medical care and pharmaceutical care in China which were different from foreign model of pharmaceutical care with community pharmacy as main model presented multi-level operating model. The scales of pharmacy in China were ranged from community-based health service station to grade A class three hospital according to the rank of hospital. CONCLUSION:The development of pharmaceutical care in China requires clinical pharmaceutical staff overcome the difficulty and strive to make innovation.

To embark on a standard,systematic and legal metrology work in grassroots medical units,it is recommended that the position of a full-time gauger should be set and more effort should be put into publicity and supervision of metrology law,which is an indispensable part of equipment management.[Chinese Medical Equipment Journal,2008,29(2):108-109]