Since the mid-1990s this 55-year-old, a Hawaii resident, has been collecting licensing fees on the common procedure for testing the blood of pregnant women for certain indications of Down syndrome in a fetus.
A few interventions examined in this review show strong evidence of impact for certain indications, including Caesarean for breech birth at term and induction of labour for post-term pregnancy.
Given the use of induction for certain indications including post-term pregnancy, pre-eclampsia, and PROM in which the fetus is at higher risk of perinatal death, as well as the potential for drugs used to induce labour to cause fetal distress, an assessment of the evidence of impact of specific drugs available for induction of labour on perinatal outcomes is warranted.
The Panel did not require multigene array definition of tumor subtype, although there was acceptance of such assays for certain indications (see below).
Cancer Care Ontario has a funding program for new drugs that will pay for some of these drugs for certain indications.
In the Netherlands, like other western countries, there is an ongoing debate whether rapid molecular tests should be used as a stand-alone diagnostic tool instead of karyotyping in prenatal diagnosis for certain indications[ 5, 11- 15].
Thus, the tissue-engineered approach to the development of activated bone substitutes allows the creation of safe medical products that are effective for certain indications.
Routine CXRs may only be beneficial for certain indications and the discussion regarding these indications and the safety of abandoning routine CXRs is still continuing [ 2].
The report cleared the Gulf state of corruption, although it noted that there were "certain indications of potentially problematic conduct of specific individuals".
Each session started with a 30 min theoretical introduction to the different transducers, sequences of medical examinations, certain indications, statements and standard scan planes; followed by a 90 min practical training including the standard scan planes of the shoulder and knee joint (European League Against Rheumatism [EULAR]) [ 17].
