This practice differed from other district hospitals in South Africa, and from that recommended by national policy, which recommended restriction of culture and drug-susceptibility testing to TB patients who were failing their current first-line regimen or who were re-treatment cases [21].
Although all guidelines recommended restriction of salt intake, four (SIGN, CMA, BHS, NICE) relied upon a similar and extensive body of work, either directly using the original data in a systematic review or indirectly sourcing the study via a previously published systematic review (see table 6).
The financial policy committee already had certain powers to put a damper on rising house prices, but it will now be able to recommend restrictions to the scheme.
The agency also scheduled a hearing on July 30, at which a panel of expert advisers could recommend restrictions, or even a ban, on Avandia's use.
Last week, a UN committee approved the Resolution on the Human Genome and Human Rights, which calls for vigilance against discrimination based on a person's genes and recommends restrictions on human cloning and germline gene therapies, which risk introducing new genes into a population.
