ABSTRACT: Simultaneous and spontaneous bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture is an uncommon injury that is usually seen in association with multiple medical conditions and some medications. We report a case of simultaneous and spontaneous bilateral quadriceps tendon rupture that may be related to the long-term use of a statin.

COVER FIGURE Using the facial analysis developed by Peter Hammond, the figure plot is showing the patient's face as more WHS-like than Smith-Magenis-like (SMS) or velocardiofacial-like (VCFS). See article by Hannes et al. in this issue.

Medical evaluations were performed on free-ranging and captive Matschie's tree kangaroos (Dendrolagus matschiei) in Papua New Guinea. The health assessment included physical examination, morphometrics, cloacal swab; and blood, hair, and feces collection. Radio-collars were placed on free-ranging tree kangaroos to determine home range and forest habitat use. The free-ranging tree ...

Helping ward registrars transition from denial to acceptance.

The doctor in a foreign country is a recurring theme in physician writer Richard Selzer's stories. In his 2009 novel, Knife Song Korea, Selzer returns to this theme, examining it in depth through the lens of gender. Selzer features the American military surgeon Sloane's multiple border-crossings, namely, from America to ...

On the cover of the Vol. 13, number 3/2011 issue of printed Medical Ultrasonography journal due to a regrettable typing error, the name of the month is June instead of September.

Initiative, creativity, and resolve represent both the pillars of the Wilderness Medical Society (WMS) and the story of George Mallory. His journey from humble beginnings to his rise to become one of history's most legendary mountaineers is a testament to the impact of great mentors as well as the development ...

Roger McNeill was born in 1853 on Colonsay in the Inner Hebrides, the son of a cattle herder. He graduated with a degree in medicine from Edinburgh University, where he studied with Joseph Lister, among others. After working in London during a smallpox epidemic, he received a gold medal and ...

Assess the odds of having an initial claim for statutory sickness benefit awarded (ascribed to mental disorder as the main registered diagnosis), in relation to institutional, clinical, sociodemographic and welfare factors in Juiz de Fora-MG, Brazil. Two models of logistic regression, taking into account the categories of the medical examiners, ...

Ralph Weissleder and Cesar Castro from Harvard Medical School speak to Cara Sutton, Assistant Commissioning Editor Ralph Weissleder attended the University of Freiburg and the University of Heidelberg (Germany), where he received his doctoral degrees. Prof. Weissleder completed a radiology residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MA, USA), Harvard Medical ...

ABSTRACT: Regarded as "America's first plastic surgeon," Dr John Peter Mettauer's professional life displays 3 fundamental keystones of plastic surgery: education, innovation, and practice. To fully appreciate the history of our plastic surgery, one must look beyond a purely factual recount of noteworthy actions performed decades ago. Fundamental principles that ...

To summarize the extraordinary accomplishments, and the commonalities, between Santiago Ramon y Cajal and Harvey Williams Cushing. Existing literature describing the lives and achievements of Ramón y Cajal and Cushing, as well as personal communication, and the surgical records of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, from 1896 to 1912, were reviewed. ...

Medical journals and other sources do not show evidence that cholera occurred in Haiti before 2010, despite the devastating effect of this disease in the Caribbean region in the 19th century. Cholera occurred in Cuba in 1833-1834; in Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico, St. Thomas, St. Lucia, St. Kitts, Nevis, Trinidad, ...

Dr William Wilson Ingram (1888-1982), a Scottish-born physician, contributed significantly to the health and heritage of Australia, his adopted land. Born on Speyside and educated in Aberdeen, he was a doctor-soldier in two World Wars and decorated with the Military Cross. Ingram was a Foundation Fellow (1938) of the Royal ...

Objectives:  The purpose of this study was to compare National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding received in 2008 by emergency medicine (EM) to the specialties of internal medicine, pediatrics, anesthesiology, and family medicine. The hypothesis was that EM would receive fewer NIH awards and less funding dollars per active physician and ...

Abstract Nearly 89 years ago, the Society of American Bacteriologists appointed Dr. Harold Conn to form a committee to standardize the stains and dyes used in biological and medical research and diagnosis. Dr. Conn's efforts led to formation of the Committee on the Standardization of Biological Stains, later incorporated as ...

To determine whether prematriculation characteristics and career-setting preferences of MD-PhD graduates differ according to their schools' funding from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences' Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP). The Association of American Medical Colleges provided deidentified records for the national cohort of all 1993-2000 U.S. medical school matriculants, ...

Hyla Bristow Stallard was one of the greatest middle-distance runners in British athletic history. While an English medical student, he won the bronze medal in the 1500-meter run at the 1924 Paris Olympics, immortalized in the critically acclaimed 1981 epic British film, Chariots of Fire. He later became one of ...

United States military medical ethics evolved during its involvement in two recent wars, Gulf War I (1990-1991) and the War on Terror (2001-). Norms of conduct for military clinicians with regard to the treatment of prisoners of war and the administration of non-therapeutic bioactive agents to soldiers were set aside ...

This is the history of an act of philanthropy: the creation of a Fellowship allowing scholars from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa to study postgraduate medicine at the University of Oxford. More specifically, it examines how a charitable fund has operated with respect to the South African clinicians and ...

In this short note in tribute to Dr. Erminio Costa, I reflect upon the sabbatical period that I spent with him during his early years at the Fidia-Georgetown Institute for the Neurosciences [FGIN] at the Georgetown University Medical Center. I detail some of the interesting projects that we were involved ...

In healthcare, mobile computing made possible by smartphones is becoming an important tool among healthcare professionals. However, currently there is very little research into the effectiveness of such applications of technology. This study aims to present a framework for a smartphone application to give doctors mobile access to patient information, ...

Jerzy Kaulbersz was undoubtedly the father of experimental gastroenterological physiology in Poland. He pioneered the neural and endocrine aspects of the mechanisms controlling gastric and pancreatic secretion by assessing the influence on this secretion of vagal nerves and endocrine factors such as gastrin, enterogastrone, urogastrone, pituitary, adrenal, thyroid and sex ...

Dr Greg Dehmer discusses the history and development of this new document, in this area of medical teaching.

A national competence framework has been developed by medical schools in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The framework has seven domains - approach to daily Practice, Dr and patient, Dr and community, communication skills, professionalism, Dr and information technology, Dr and research. The framework will guide curriculum development and assessment ...

The way U.S. Rep. Michael Burgess, MD (R-Texas), sees it, the 2003 Texas medical liability reforms are so successful that the rest of the country should follow suit. That is why a number of Texas members of Congress - both Republican and Democrat - are either authoring or cosponsoring legislation ...

Texas has fewer pill mills churning out massive volumes of prescriptions for powerful narcotics thanks to the Texas Medical Board (TMB). Since Sept. 1, 2010, pain management clinics must be TMB-certified to continue operating. The board has been busy enforcing the law. At press time, TMB had suspended 11 pain ...

The launch of on-line hemodiafiltration happened at a very peculiar time from the regulatory standpoint. The directives on medical devices were at their very beginning and the medicinal products regulatory regime was considering, after 30 years of operation of Directive 65/65/EEC, whether it was the case to go for greater ...

The employment of disinfection-sterilisation processes for the re-use of medical devices without negative effects such as the presence of toxic residues, material degradation or other modifications is an important consideration for reducing the costs of surgical and medical procedures. Ethylene oxide is the most commonly used low temperature sterilisation technique ...

To implement and evaluate a simulation activity and related assignments within a geriatric elective to teach pharmacy students about the medication management difficulties experienced by low-vision patients. Students wore low-vision simulation goggles while engaging in medication management tasks. Students also reflected on their experiences in journals and developed modalities to ...

Globally the medical device (MD) market has been growing quite rapidly over the past decade. The regulatory framework for pharmaceuticals and devices differ substantially. The regulatory authorities in different regions of the world recognize different classes of medical devices (MDs), based on their design complexity, their use characteristics, and their ...

This essay review examines three books dealing with the founding and subsequent activities of Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) and the evolution of military medicine from 1909 to 2009 recently published by the US Army's Borden Institute. Established by fellow army doctor William Borden to honor Walter Reed himself, ...

Titanium alloys like Ti6Al4V are widely used in medical engineering. However, the mechanical and chemical properties of titanium alloys lead to poor machinability, resulting in high production costs of medical products. To improve the machinability of Ti6Al4V, 0.9% of the rare earth element lanthanum (La) was added. The microstructure, the ...

With the detection of prions in specific tissues in variant and sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob diseases, efficient decontamination for human transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) agents, that is compatible with medical equipment, has become a major issue. We previously described the cleavage of prions on exposure to copper (Cu) and hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the effects that medical staff education and a new process for scheduling inductions had on decreasing inappropriate inductions. METHODS: At our institution in 2004, guidelines were developed and shared with the medical staff and reinforced in 2005. The guidelines for elective induction required patients to have completed ...

Silk fibroin from the silkworm, Bombyx mori, has excellent properties such as biocompatibility, biodegradation, non-toxicity, adsorption properties, etc. As a kind of ideal biomaterial, silk fibroin has been widely used since it was first utilized for sutures a long time ago. The degradation behavior of silk biomaterials is obviously important ...

The oligosaccharides present in the milk of an African elephant (Loxodonta africana africana), collected 4 days post partum, were separated by size exclusion-, anion exchange- and high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) before characterisation by (1)H NMR spectroscopy. Neutral and acidic oligosaccharides were identified. Neutral oligosaccharides characterised were isoglobotriose, Gal(beta1-4)[Fuc(alpha1-3)]GlcNAc(beta1-3)Gal(beta1-4)Glc, Gal(beta1-4)[Fuc(alpha1-3)]GlcNAc(beta1-3)Gal(beta1-4)[Fuc(alpha1-3)]GlcNAc(beta1-3)Gal(beta1-4)Glc, Gal(alpha1-3)Gal(beta1-4)[Fuc(alpha1-3)]GlcNAc(beta1-3)Gal(beta1-4)Glc ...

E-learning for healthcare (e-LfH) is a collaborative programme between the Department of Health, the NHS and various professional bodies. It provides high quality, interactive education for healthcare workers, and has been described as 'The most positive development in medical education in 20 years' by the Chief Medical Officer, Sir Liam ...

Secondary accounts of the impact of the First World War on psychological medicine have traditionally painted a picture of psychoanalysis as the preserve of a small number of pioneering individuals, led by William Rivers and marginalized by a Royal Army Medical Corps (RAMC) obsessed with discipline. This view ignores the ...

Shape memory alloys based on the intermetallic system Nickel-Titanium (NiTi or NiTinol) are widely used in various kinds of industries. At present, the most popular market is medical industry, in which NiTinol finds a perfect environment with a narrow temperature specification ranging from room to body temperature. In this area ...

A phosphate chemosensor ensemble, [Zn(H-bpmp)(pyrocatechol violet)](+) is useful for a real-time assay of phosphodiesterases (PDEs) in a neutral aqueous solution. In addition, a simple and convenient screen and assay procedures for inhibitors of PDEs have been demonstrated using IBMX, a nonselective PDE inhibitor as an example.

1-O-(4,4,5,5,6,6,7,7,8,8,9,9,9-Tridecafluorononyl)xylitol 6 was synthesized as a novel standard compound for the assessment of hemocompatibility and co-emulsifying properties in microemulsions for biomedical uses. 3-O-(1,1,2,4,4,5,7,7,8,8,9,9,9-Tridecafluoro-5-trifluoro-methyl-3,6-dioxanonyl)-D-glucose 9 and 6-O-(1,1,2,4,4,5,7,7,8,8,9,9,9-tridecafluoro-5-trifluoromethyl-3,6-dioxanonyl)-D-galactose 12 were synthesized by nucleophilic addition of protected carbohydrates to perfluorinated vinyl oligoether. Biological tests revealed very good hemocompatibility and co-emulsifying properties for the ...

Albert John Ochsner was a member of a select group of medical practitioners who made their impact on medical practice and surgical techniques. He was a pioneer in microscopy and made numerous contributions to the medical literature, on topics ranging from the organization of hospitals and advances in the treatment ...

Juvenile hormone esterase (JHE) from hemolymph of the silkworm moth Bombyx mori was characterized for substrate specificity and inhibitor sensitivity. B. mori JHE hydrolyzed the juvenile hormone surrogate substrate methyl n-heptylthioacetothioate (HEPTAT) more efficiently than p-nitrophenyl acetate and 1-naphthyl acetate substrates widely used to assay total carboxylesterase activity. B. mori ...

In the present study we report some physico-chemical standards for Karpooradi taila which is a medicated oil used for the treatment of "Varrthavikaram". The physicochemical standards and the Thin Layer chromatographic pattern can be used as a finger print standard for Karpooradi taila.

High molecular weight (HMW) and low molecular weight (LMW) kininogens were present in canine plasma, and its content ratio was 1:3. Both kininogens were purified by ion-exchange and affinity chromatographies. Purified HMW kininogen might be heterogeneous molecule. And two LMW kininogens were purified and properties of both LMW kininogens were ...

Renin inhibitors 2-4 with the D-Lys renin inhibitory peptide (RIP) sequence, but containing Leu psi[CH2O]Ala (2), Leu psi[CH2O]Val (3), and Leu psi[CH2O]Leu (4) at the P1-P1' site, were of a comparable potency to RIP. N-Terminal Boc-protected inhibitors containing Pro psi[CH2O]Phe in positions P4-P3 were potent inhibitors of renin, with Boc-Phe-Pro ...

Methanol extract of defatted fruits of ASPARAGUS CURILLUS Buch-Ham yielded a mixture of Saponins, Oligofurostanosides and Spirostanolglycosides.

1 The beta-adrenoceptor blocking agent, acebutolol (M & B 17,803), has been compared with propranolol, practolol, lignocaine and quinidine for its ability to revert or prevent various types of experimental arrhythmias.2 By intravenous infusion, acebutolol had one half the potency of propranolol in reverting an established ouabain-induced ventricular arrhythmia in ...

This study demonstrates, by freeze fracture, clustering of intramembranous particles caused by cryoprotectant treatment of intact unfixed mouse lymphoid cells. Both T and B cells react in a similar fashion, while similar clustering of particles is not observed in some other cell types. The intramembranous particles can be aggregated by ...