We examined whether older and younger adults share a schema for taking medication and whether instructions are better recalled when they are organized to match this schema. Experiment 1 examined age difference in schema organization. Participants sorted medication items (e.g., purpose, dose, possible side effects) according to similarity and then ...

1996 marked the centennial anniversary of the 1896 visit to California of William Macewen, MD, Regius Professor of Surgery of the University of Glasgow, Scotland, to give the first Lane Medical Lectures. I describe the origins of this historic lecture series and include photographic records. The progress and development of ...

The functional anatomy of the triangular fibrocartilage complex (TFCC) was investigated in 20 fresh cadavers. Dynamic changes in the TFCC during rotation were also examined from both the proximal and distal aspects. In our analysis, the TFCC was separated into three components. The distal component was stable, functioning like a ...

Sir William Hingston was one of Canada's most illustrious surgeons in the second half of the 19th century. Not only was he a very innovative surgeon but he was an excellent teacher and wrote many medical articles during a career that spanned over 50 years. Active as he was medically, ...

In July 1995, Operation Prompt Return was mounted to set up a facility on Wake Island in the mid-Pacific to process 158 illegal emigrants and return them to China. The deployed medical team screened and examined the travelers and the ship's crew. Initial major problems consisted of skin rashes, dental ...

Some leaders of the profession and its educational components have voiced concern about changes under way in California and questioned whether the state board of podiatric medicine is acting appropriately. The author attempts to clarify the role of state licensing boards, developments in California, and the board's alignment with those ...

Podiatric medicine faces some significant challenges that threaten its future growth and development. The California Liaison Committee for Podiatric Medical Education and Training exemplifies an innovative approach to meeting these challenges. The California Liaison Committee has established a dialogue among California's college-based and community-based podiatric medical educators, licensing board members, ...

Predicting paramedic candidate performance on the written licensure examination is of considerable importance to educators, students, employers, and state regulators. There has been little investigation of the available statistical data regarding examinee pass rate and examination score. No studies have measured an examinee's sequential success pattern on the basic emergency ...

Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the courts have ruled that sponsors of job entry assessment procedures must demonstrate the absence of discrimination against minorities. If an assessment discriminates, the courts may prohibit the use of the assessment unless the assessment is linked to a job ...

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this review is to give the reader a global insight into the spectrum of urticaria, focusing on differential diagnosis and pathogenic mechanisms. This review will define the role of the mast cell, explore a possible autoimmune basis for urticaria, and examine the purported role of food ...

PURPOSE: W examined the anatomy of the ejaculatory ducts in normal men and correlated findings with theories of ejaculatory duct obstruction. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Gross and microscopic anatomical studies were performed on cadaveric and operative specimens derived from radical prostatectomy. RESULTS: Histologically, the ejaculatory ducts are a continuation of the ...

OBJECTIVE: In the light of previous reports, to examine the possibility that professional diving might cause abnormalities of the retina and choroid. METHODS: The retinal fluorescein angiograms of 55 Royal Naval divers and 24 non-diver servicemen were compared. RESULTS: No differences were found between divers and non-divers and the prevalence ...

In Hong Kong, medicated oils containing methyl salicylate account for 48% of acute salicylate poisoning cases treated in the general medical ward of the Prince of Wales Hospital. To quantify better the risk to average persons who have intentionally ingested these medicated oils, the methyl salicylate content and bottle size ...

The Medical Council of Canada has made use of examiners' pass/fail classifications of candidates' behaviors in objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) stations in defining cutting scores for these stations. This process assumes that there is consistency in the judgments of examiners employed in the same stations at different testing sites ...

This paper points to a convergence of formal and rhetorical features in ancient Chinese cosmobiological theory, within which is developed a view of the inner life of human emotions. Inasmuch as there is an extensive classical tradition considering the emotions in conjunction with music, one can justify a structural analysis ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between phenytoin medication and cerebellar atrophy in patients who had experienced clinical intoxication. Five females and 6 males, 21-59 years of age, were examined with a 1.5-T whole-body system using a circular polarized head coil. Conventional spin echo images were ...

In the worst possible situation, a disaster results in multiple deaths, requiring the involvement of coroner's and medical examiner's offices. Guidelines offered by the National Association of Medical Examiners and by a national funeral directors' association suggest the use of ministers and chaplains to offer "pastoral" care to family members ...

The multidisciplinary trauma peer review process collects, reviews, discusses, and collates all morbidities and mortalities of injured patients to institute corrective action in a timely manner. The resultant remedial activity may include professional education, physician counseling, restriction of privileges, or changes in the trauma care system. Effective corrective action necessitates ...

A self-administered examination protocol of the musculoskeletal system in the neck, shoulders, and upper limbs was mailed to 350 subjects and the results were compared to those of a subsequent medical examination. The prevalences of reported positive findings were higher than in the medical examination. Validity ranged between poor and ...

In Ohio in 1915, the Platt-Ellis Law was enacted, a compromise between medical and chiropractic forces that defined chiropractic as a "limited branch of medicine or surgery." Practitioners of chiropractic, naprapathy, spondylotherapy, mechanotherapy, magnetic healing, and other "minor" healing arts excluding osteopathy and midwifery were all examined by the State ...

Descriptions and differentiating factors in post-torture lesions are described and discussed, from the point of view of the medical examination of persons alleging physical abuse of human rights. The lesions caused by various methods of torture are described. The material and expertise is drawn from a long experience both in ...

Based on a number of years' experience by volunteer doctors engaged in the examination and welfare of refugees and asylum-seekers who have claimed that they have suffered torture a scheme of history-taking and physical examination is offered. The role of the medical expert in the investigation of abuse of human ...

If not modified or overturned on appeal, the Dal Cielo decision will very likely have a significant negative impact on the ability of California's organized peer review bodies to conduct frank, candid, and confidential peer review. Dal Cielo appears to permit the Board to subpoena committee minutes, physician credentials files, ...

The Louisiana State Board of Medical Examiners does not recognize the examination offered by the National Board of Osteopathic Medical Examiners as a valid pathway to licensure, either directly or by endorsement. The State Board recognizes the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) as the appropriate examination for direct licensure. ...

Are prophylactic antibiotics really needed to prevent endocarditis and prosthetic joint infection when patients at risk undergo medical and dental procedures likely to cause bacteremia? Although animal studies seem to support such prophylaxis, clinical trials in humans are lacking, and some authorities believe it is unethical to give antibiotics without ...

Efforts to reduce the dose of diagnostic medical irradiation by applying selective criteria for radiographic examinations have been addressed by the Royal College of Radiologists in their Guidelines. Reduction of the number of views of an area has also been suggested by some authors. Deviating from one of the fundamentals ...

French-speaking candidates taking the translated version of the Medical Council of Canada's (MCC's) Qualifying Examination in Medicine often complain that poor performance could be due to translation defects. The purposes of this 1991 study were to determine (1) whether French-speaking candidates spend the same time as do English-speaking candidates in ...

Every year about 45,000 Texas physicians dutifully get out their checkbooks and send off a few hundred dollars to this state institution. Besides taking the test for their licenses in the first place, mailing that yearly check marks the extent to which most Texas physicians ever come into contact with ...

Haptoglobin (Hp) polymorphism and its relationship to malaria infections was examined in Solomon Islanders under 25 years of age. The slide positive rate for malaria was 48% (53/111): Plasmodium vivax (Pv) 21 cases, Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) 16 cases and the remaining 16 were a mixture of Pv/Pf/P. malariae. Of 111 ...

The averaging of individual late component event related potential (ERP) responses, particularly P300, has revealed significant differences between schizophrenic patients and normal subjects. However, the averaging process removes the variability of the individual epochs that constitute that average. The response-variance-curve (RVC) method quantifies the variability of the individual epochs and ...

Medical examiners perform autopsies on victims of criminal violence and such deaths must be reported to the medical examiner. Because few medical personnel are cognizant of the full extent of the types of deaths which must be reported and of the substantial noncriminal aspects of medical examiner services, this description ...

Solid organ transplant provides lifesaving therapy for infants and children with otherwise terminal diseases, but it is severely limited by donor organ supply. Medical examiners perform a pivotal role in the organ procurement process by determining whether a "heartbeating cadaver" on life support is a medicolegally suitable donor. This descriptive ...

Despite recent calls for greater collaboration between medical anthropologists and epidemiologists, examples of synthetic, interdisciplinary anthropological-epidemiological research are frankly rare, due in large part to perceptions among medical anthropologists that anthropology and epidemiology diverge considerably in their topics of inquiry, epistemological assumptions, methods of data collection and notions of risk ...

This past summer, the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) drafted model legislation on the practice of medicine across state lines and sent it to each state medical board for consideration. The Florida House of Representatives Committee on Business and Professional Regulation posed a series of questions about telemedicine covering ...

The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of sickness absenteeism among the three types of agencies, government, semi-government (boards) and private (public) companies. The methodology involved eliciting retrospective data on medical leave over the year 1990 by requesting the agencies to fill up a questionnaire (Appendix I), ...

Low molecular weight heparins (LMWHs) are considered to be the agent of choice for the prophylaxis of DVT in medical and surgical patients. Conventionally, these agents have been produced by fractionation of or by chemical or enzymatic depolymerization of native heparin. The fractionated heparin retains many of its biological properties ...

Prevalence of filariasis in 8 randomly selected villages of Puri district was studied. 782 persons were examined. The prevalence of microfilaria was found to be 7.3 per cent and the disease rate 9.5 per cent. The mf rate was higher in males (8.8 per cent) than the females (5.7 per ...

Trephination was widely recognised as an achievement of many primitive cultures but until Dr Stephen Webb identified two Australian Aboriginal skulls it was not believed to have occurred on the continent of Australia. The technique and actual instruments used in New Britain for trephination are examined and the two skulls ...

Facts and principles concerning the role of the medical examiner or coroner in the procurement of organs or tissue for transplantation are presented. Topics discussed are the legalities and the importance of control of the dead body, the medical examiner's or coroner's role in the determination of death, recognition of ...

A comprehensive selection examination in the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) aims to minimise medical wastage of military pilots who have to function safely in the unnatural environment. Of the 8642 applicants examined, 657 (7.6%) were rejected for non-medical reasons before completion of medical examination. Of the remaining 7778, ...

OBJECTIVES: Cocaine use among youths as measured by several annual surveys was most popular from about 1979 to 1986, after which it declined. This study carefully examines the nature of the decline by focusing on microdata for youthful arrestees in Manhattan. METHODS: Multiple statistical analyses examine whether the decline in ...

The intention of this paper is to describe the organizational principles and indicate the results already achieved in the identification of war victims in Croatia. By 25 February 1993, 6,493 victims had been identified. A model is proposed that could be used in the course of identification processes, examining the ...

A positive identification of a homicide victim was made possible by observing an inconspicuous Casio watch worn by the deceased. Identification of deceased individuals are usually made by fingerprints or dental matching, visual means, DNA studies, X-rays of other bodily structures, tattoos, etc. When all of these methods fail and ...

Anaesthesiology is the first medical specialty in Japan to be legislated for training and certification by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. The Japanese Society of Anaesthesiologists (JSA) is the regulating body since 1960. Consultants or independent specialists in anaesthesiology are known as Diplomates of the Board of JSA. Diplomates ...

The timing of the appearance of leptomeningeal glioneuronal heterotopia (LGH) and its immunohistochemical development were examined on autopsied brains ranging from 12 to 43 weeks of postmenstrual age. LGH appeared at 20 weeks postmenstrual age and its incidence gradually increased until 28-31 weeks. All patients with trisomy 13 who were ...

Mortality patterns from earthquakes in the United States may differ from those observed in other parts of the world. We reviewed coroner and medical examiner records for all investigated deaths from seven California counties for 15 days following the Loma Prieta earthquake of October 17, 1989 (N = 327). Data ...

OBJECTIVE: We sought to determine the prevalence of HLA-B27 and the prevalence and nature of spondyloarthropathies in the native residents of Eastern Chukotka, Siberia, Russia. METHODS: We conducted a cross sectional study with medical examination and interview of 464 of 640 (72.5%) native residents of 2 Eastern Chukotka settlements, Sireniki ...

In 1991, 22 potential organ donors in Colorado were lost due to coroner refusal. This reflects a 41% loss of organ donors in Colorado based on 53 donors for the same year, which prompted Colorado Organ Recovery Systems to ascertain whether there was a national trend in coroner/medical examiner refusal ...

In 1984, the Medical Advisory Board for the state of Maine realized that uniform criteria with regard to physical, emotional, and mental competence to operate a motor vehicle were nonexistent. This resulted in confusion and inevitable inequities. The burden of determining one's ability to operate a motor vehicle safely was ...

A 70-year-old Japanese housewife, a resident of Shimane Prefecture, developed an erythematous, annular skin lesion on her right forearm. Mycological examinations revealed that it was tinea corporis caused by Trichophyton verrucosum (T. verrucosum). This fungus was then shown to have been transmitted to her from young dairy cattle introduced from ...