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Memory and the Aging BrainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Presented by: The best thing since the internetCategory: Wednesday Afternoon LecturesAired date: 03/17/2010 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: events

Times have changedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
@ConanOBrien: http://twitpic.com/17lx53 - I no longer have health care. Could someone show this to a dermatologist and get back to me?@pyknosis: I'm a hematologist, not a dermatologist, but looking at that, I give you 7 months. Don't worry. That's a really long time.That's just good humor, as Happy Hospitalist likes to say. Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, follow on Twitter and Buzz, and connect on Facebook. (Source: Clinical Cases and Images)
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Twitter Twitter Humor Dermatology Source Type: info

The Seattle Obesity Study: Measuring Access to Healthy, Affordable FoodsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Seattle Obesity Study Results Presentation by Dr. Adam Drewnowski, PhD Director, UW Center for Obesity Research Uiversity of Washington, Seattle, WAAir date: 3/23/2010 1:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: events

NIAID Women's Health Research - 2010 International Women's Day Lecture: "Chasing Cholera and Catching Climate Change"Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Vector borne diseases have long been recognized to be climate driven, but it is now clear that many infectious diseases are intricately related to weather patterns, climate, and seasonality. Epidemics of cholera, a devastating disease occurring predominantly in third world countries, has been shown to be directly correlated with environmental parameters including sea surface temperature, sea surface height, and salinity, among others. Recent studies incorporating satellite sensing technology, ground truth measurements, microbiology, and genome sequence analyses, have provided the basis for predictive modeling of cholera ep...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: events

Room 101: where services go to dieEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Godlee, F. Tags: Patients, Pain (neurology), Colon cancer, Screening (oncology), Radiology, Physiotherapy, Degenerative joint disease, Musculoskeletal syndromes, Dermatology, Sports and exercise medicine, Surgical diagnostic tests, General surgery, Radiology (diagnostics) Source Type: journals

Teach doctors economics, not Toyota's management fadsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Donaldson, C., Bate, A. Tags: VIEWS & REVIEWS Source Type: journals

Men behaving madly: testosterone replacement therapyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Spence, D. Tags: VIEWS & REVIEWS Source Type: journals

Murder she wroteEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Dalrymple, T. Tags: VIEWS & REVIEWS Source Type: journals

Reducing sunbed use in young peopleEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Elwood, J M., Gallagher, R. P Tags: Smoking and tobacco, Obesity (nutrition), Skin cancer, Child health, Drug misuse (including addiction), Drugs misuse (including addiction), Dermatology, Health education, Obesity (public health), Health promotion, Smoking EDITORIALS Source Type: journals

Sunbed use in children aged 11-17 in England: face to face quota sampling surveys in the National Prevalence Study and Six Cities StudyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Objectives To quantify the use of sunbeds in young people across England, identify geographical variation, and explore patterns of use, including supervision. Design Two random location sampling... (Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Thomson, C. S, Woolnough, S., Wickenden, M., Hiom, S., Twelves, C. J Tags: Epidemiologic studies RESEARCH Source Type: journals

Who is afraid of reviewers' comments? Or, why anything can be published and anything can be citedEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: European Journal of Clinical Investigation)
Source: European Journal of Clinical Investigation - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: John P. A. Ioannidis, Athina Tatsioni, Fotini B. Karassa Tags: EDITORIAL Source Type: journals

Standard error of the meanEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Sedgwick, P. Tags: Obesity (nutrition), Child health, Health education, Obesity (public health), Health promotion ENDGAMES Source Type: journals

Renal failureEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Infectious diseases, Urology, Hypertension, Urological surgery ENDGAMES Source Type: journals

Progressive dysphagia, dysarthria, dystonia, and tremorEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Davendralingam, N, Davagnanam, I, Djamshidian, A, Lees, A Tags: Oesophagus, Brain stem / cerebellum, Cranial nerves, Headache (including migraine), Pain (neurology), Reproductive medicine, Ophthalmology, Radiology, Dentistry and oral medicine, Clinical diagnostic tests, Radiology (diagnostics) ENDGAMES Source Type: journals

Integrated Care Program Beneficial in Low Back PainEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In patients with chronic low back pain, an integrated care program that combines a patient-directed and workplace-directed intervention may significantly reduce disability in private and working life, according to a study published online March 16 in BMJ. (Source: Modern Medicine)
Source: Modern Medicine - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: info

Mandating influenza immunization gets the job doneEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Read the full story on MD Consult: Mandating influenza immunization gets the job done (Source: MD Consult: News: Top Stories)
Source: MD Consult: News: Top Stories - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: info

Novel mutations underlying argininosuccinic aciduria in Saudi ArabiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Together, the eight mutations described by our laboratory, encompass >90% of ASAuria patients in Saudi Arabia and add to about 45 other ASAuria mutations reported worldwide. (Source: BioMed Central)
Source: BioMed Central - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Faiqa ImtiazMoeen Al-SayedDanyah TrabzuniBashair Al-MubarakOsama AlsmadiMohamed RashedBrian Meyer Source Type: journals

YODA: Software to facilitate high-throughput analysis of chronological life span, growth rate, and survival in budding yeastEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: We estimate that use of YODA as described here reduces the effort and resources required to measure chronological life span and analyze the resulting data by at least 15-fold. (Source: BioMed Central)
Source: BioMed Central - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Brady OlsenChristopher MurakamiMatt Kaeberlein Source Type: journals

Use of rasch methodology to develop a short version of the Health Related Quality of life for Eating Disorders questionnaire: a prospective studyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Two main factors, social maladjustment and mental health and functionality, explain the majority of HeRQoLEDv2 scores. The shortened version maintains good psychometric properties, though it must be validated in independent samples. (Source: BioMed Central)
Source: BioMed Central - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Carlota Las HayasJose QuintanaJesus PadiernaAmaia BilbaoPedro Munoz Source Type: journals

Group motivational intervention in overweight/obese patients in primary prevention of cardiovascular disease in the primary healthcare areaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
DiscussionBy addressing currently unanswered questions regarding the maintenance in weight loss in obesity/overweight, upon the expected completion of participant follow-up in 2012, the IMOAP trial should document for the first time the benefits of a motivational intervention as a treatment tool of weight loss in a primary care setting.ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01006213 (Source: BioMed Central)
Source: BioMed Central - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Juan Jose Rodriguez CristobalJosefa Ma Panisello RoyoCarlos Alonso-Villaverde GroteJose Ma Perez SantosAnna Munoz LloretFrancisca Rodriguez CortesPere Trave MercadeFrancisca Benavides MarquezPilar Marti de la MorenaMa Jose Gonzalez BurgillosMarta Delclos Source Type: journals

Effects of UVB-induced oxidative stress on protein expression and specific protein oxidation in normal human epithelial keratinocytes: a proteomic approachEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: Despite a wide and well orchestrated cellular response, a relevant oxidation of specific proteins concomitantly occurs in UVB-irradiated human epithelial Keratinocytes. These modified (i.e. likely dysfunctional) proteins might result in cell homeostasis impairment and therefore eventually promote cellular degeneration, senescence or carcinogenesis. (Source: BioMed Central)
Source: BioMed Central - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Marzia PerluigiFabio Di DomenicoCarla BlarzinoCesira FoppoliChiara CiniAlessandra GiorgiCaterina GrilloFederico De MarcoDavid ButterfieldMaria SchininnaRaffaella Coccia Source Type: journals

Encephalomyocarditis virus infection in an Italian zooEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A fatal Encephalomyocarditis virus (EMCV) infection epidemic involving fifteen primates occurred between October 2006 and February 2007 at the Natura Viva Zoo. This large open-field zoo park located near Lake Garda in Northern Italy hosts one thousand animals belonging to one hundred and fifty different species, including various lemur species. This lemur collection is the most relevant and rich in Italy. A second outbreak between September and November 2008 involved three lemurs. In all cases, the clinical signs were sudden deaths generally without any evident symptoms or only with mild unspecific clinical signs. Gross pa...
Source: BioMed Central - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Elena CanelliAndrea LuppiAntonio LavazzaDavide LelliEnrica SozziAna Moreno MartinDaniela GelmettiErnesto PascottoCamillo SandriWilliam MagnonePaolo Cordioli Source Type: journals

A predictive computational model of the kinetic mechanism of stimulus-induced transducer methylation and feedback regulation through CheY in archaeal phototaxis and chemotaxisEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions: We provide a kinetic model for signal processing in photo- and chemotaxis in the archaeon H. salinarum suggesting an essential role of receptor cooperativity, antagonistic reversible methylation, and a CheY-dependent feedback on transducer demethylation. (Source: BioMed Central)
Source: BioMed Central - March 18, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Stefan StreifDieter OesterheltWolfgang Marwan Source Type: journals

SIR: ABI Flags Those Not Otherwise at Risk for CVD (CME/CE)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
TAMPA (MedPage Today) -- The prevalence of an abnormal ankle-brachial index (ABI) is high even among those who aren't considered at risk for cardiovascular disease based on traditional risk scores, researchers here said. (Source: MedPage Today Meeting Coverage)
Source: MedPage Today Meeting Coverage - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Source Type: info

Panel Discusison: The Institutional Review Board: Safety First (NIH-Only)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Presented by: NIDDK/NIAMS Institutional Review BoardCategory: NIH OnlyAired date: 03/17/2010 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: events

7T Seminar Series: The Rapidly Changing Brain – Of Taxi Driving Mice and Maze Running MenEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
How does the shape of the brain change with learning? Initial studies indicated that spatial expertise - in the form of experienced Taxi drivers - enlarged the hippocampus, one of the key structures involved in spatial navigation. Whether regional growth or shrinkage in the brain can be induced with specific training administered over short time periods is, however, unknown. The talk will present results of training studies in both mice and men, including some initial investigations using histology to ascertain the cellular bases of training induced volume changes. Dr. Jason Lerch is a scientist at the Hospital for Sick ...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: events

More than a third of the world's population lacks basic sanitationEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Zarocostas, J. Tags: Neurogastroenterology, Child health, Pneumonia (respiratory medicine) NEWS Source Type: journals

European governments agree to tackle environmental threats to healthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: BMJ Online First)
Source: BMJ Online First - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Watson, R. Tags: Childhood nutrition, Diet, Obesity (nutrition), Childhood nutrition (paediatrics), Child health, Infant health, Infant nutrition (including breastfeeding), Air pollution, Environmental issues, Health education, Obesity (public health), Health promotion Source Type: journals

NCI Communication Roundtable Seminar: Using Decision Support and Mobile Technologies to Address Patient CareEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Presented by: NCI Communications Strategy Roundtable, Office of Communications and Education, NCI, NIHCategory: Advisory BoardsAired date: 03/11/2010 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: events

Friederich's Ataxia: N Iron LinkEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Presented by: Kenneh Fischbeck (NINDS), Tracey Rouault (NICHD)Category: Demystifying MedicineAired date: 03/09/2010 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: events

Academic CAT Tracks: Making the Move to AcademiaEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Presented by: Sharon Milgram, PhD, Director Office of Intramural Training & EducationCategory: Career Development/OITEAired date: 03/12/2010 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: events

Enhancing Peer Review: A Conversation about Application Changes (HHS Only)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Presented by: Megan ColumbusCategory: HHS OnlyAired date: 03/16/2010 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: events

The Colonoscopy Song - March is National Colorectal Cancer Awareness MonthEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Peter Yarrow of the musical group Peter, Paul and Mary appeared on the CBS Early Show to sing a song he composed about his own colonoscopy:In the video below, Dr. Paul Limburg, a Mayo Clinic Gastroenterologist, provides background on colorectal cancer and the screening methods: Posted at Clinical Cases and Images. Stay updated and subscribe, follow on Twitter and Buzz, and connect on Facebook. (Source: Clinical Cases and Images)
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: noreply at blogger.com (Ves Dimov, M.D.) Tags: Oncology Gastroenterology Source Type: info

Stars in Nutrition and Cancer: The Human Microbiome-Host Metabolic Axis in Health and DiseaseEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Presented by: Dr. Jeremy NicholsonCategory: SpecialAired date: 03/17/2010 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: events

RNAi-mediated Epigenetic Control of the Genome (NIH-Only)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Presented by: Shiv Grewal, Ph.D.Category: NIH OnlyAired date: 03/16/2010 (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Past Events Source Type: events

Rescuing the Bottom Billion Through Control of Neglected Tropical DiseasesEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The 2010 John Ring LaMontagne Lecture Speaker: Peter J. Hotez, M.D., Ph.D. Walter G. Ross Professor and Chair Department of Microbiology, Immunology, & Tropical Medicine The George Washington University President, Sabin Vaccine Institute Air date: 4/22/2010 2:00:00 PM (Source: Videocast - All Events)
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: events

"Values-In-Action" Character Strengths Predict Well-BeingEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Character strengths can be conceptualized in the Values-In-Action (VIA) strengths classification system.135 undergraduate university students completed measures of strengths use, subjective well-being (SWB), self-esteem, self-efficacy, and health-related quality of life (HRQOL), and endorsed 5 top VIA strengths.Results revealed that strengths use is a unique predictor of subjective well-being, but not HRQOL.The VIA strengths of hope and zest were significant positive predictors of life satisfaction.The most commonly-endorsed VIA strengths were:- love- humor- kindness- social intelligence- open-mindedness.The least-endorsed...
Source: Clinical Cases and Images - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Psychology Happiness Source Type: info

Director's Consumer Liaison Group Spring 2010 face-to-face meeting (Day 3)Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This is the 53nd meeting of the National Cancer Institute Director’s Consumer Liaison Group (DCLG). The DCLG is NCI’s all-consumer advisory committee that indentifies and responds to issues and challenges facing the Institute at the request of the Director. The DCLG provides relevant, non-scientific skills and perspectives in order to improve research outcomes by identifying new approaches, promoting innovation, recognizing unforeseen risks or barriers, and identifying unintended consequences that could result from NCI decisions. This meeting will focus on NCI’s therapeutics development program as well as provide upd...
Source: Videocast - All Events - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Upcoming Events Source Type: events

CorrectionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal)
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Tags: Correction Source Type: journals

Home truths from abroadEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal)
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Launer, J. Tags: On reflection Source Type: journals

Intracranial carotid artery dissectionEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal)
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Mahawish, K., Durairaj, R., Sharma, A. K Tags: Emergency medicine, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Headache (including migraine), Pain (neurology), Stroke, Radiology, Connective tissue disease, Clinical diagnostic tests, Radiology (diagnostics), Epidemiology Images in medicine Source Type: journals

An unusual cause of hypopituitarismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal)
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Partridge, H., Armitage, M., Richardson, T. Tags: Journalology, Drugs: CNS (not psychiatric), Radiology, Clinical diagnostic tests, Radiology (diagnostics), Ethics, Metabolic disorders, Pituitary disorders, Thyroid disease Images in medicine Source Type: journals

Hypoplastic left heart syndromeEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
(Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal)
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Stumper, O. Tags: Genetics, Immunology (including allergy), Congenital heart disease, Drugs: cardiovascular system, Interventional cardiology, Neonatal and paediatric intensive care, Valvar diseases, Radiology, Clinical diagnostic tests, Cardiothoracic surgery, Transplanta Source Type: journals

[18F]FDG PET/CT imaging of colorectal cancer: a pictorial reviewEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Integrated positron emission tomography/CT (PET/CT) with 2-[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) is a hybrid imaging modality which has recently become established in the staging, restaging and therapy response assessment of oncology patients. FDG PET/CT has several recognised applications in colorectal cancer (CRC) imaging including preoperative evaluation of apparently limited metastatic disease, detection of disease recurrence, clarification of equivocal lesions at initial staging, investigation of unexplained rising tumour markers, and incidental detection of occult primary colonic tumours. With a constantly advancing bo...
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Chowdhury, F. U, Shah, N., Scarsbrook, A. F, Bradley, K. M Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Cardiac CT: non-coronary applicationsEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Cardiac CT involves acquisition of high-quality ECG-gated dynamic images of the heart. ECG gating allows exquisite delineation of the coronary arteries, which are subjected to respiratory and cardiac motion. Cardiac CT has an established role in the assessment of coronary artery disease in selected patient groups and permits detailed assessment of cardiac and great vessel anatomy. The technique can also be used for a number of non-coronary applications including assessment of the pericardium, cardiac tumours and pulmonary veins. In this article, these applications are reviewed and the salient imaging findings across a rang...
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Gopalan, D., Raj, V., Hoey, E. T D Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Liver disease in pregnancyEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Pregnancy is a time of great maternal physiological and metabolic changes. This affects the biochemical and haematological parameters used in the assessment of liver disease, and it is important to appreciate the different reference ranges in pregnancy to facilitate recognition of liver disorders in pregnancy. Due to the increased physiological and metabolic stress of pregnancy, liver disorders that have previously been subclinical may become symptomatic—for example, primary biliary cirrhosis. Gallstone disease is a common problem in women of childbearing age, and pregnancy promotes their formation. The viral hepatid...
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Mackillop, L., Williamson, C. Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Neuromyelitis optica: an overviewEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a relapsing inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system that closely resembles multiple sclerosis. This review discusses recent understanding of NMO with reference to epidemiology, clinical spectrum, immunopathology, diagnostic evaluation, clinical course and management. Within the clinical spectrum of NMO, the classical form (with relapsing opticomyelitis) and limited forms (either recurrent myelitis or optic neuritis), as well as its association with other autoimmune disorders, have been recognised in recent years. Further, symptomatic or asymptomatic cerebral lesions may be present,...
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Nandhagopal, R, Al-Asmi, A., Gujjar, A. R Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Teaching cause-of-death certification: lessons from international experienceEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Conclusions Pragmatic education on best practice for cause-of-death certification is a basic step to ensure accurate information for each individual case, leading to the production of high quality mortality statistics for epidemiology, public health policy and research. Development of new educational interventions or modification of existing programmes should be based on evidence of the benefits from current and past interventions provided under varying circumstances. (Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal)
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Aung, E., Rao, C., Walker, S. Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals

Understanding the risk of hyperkalaemia in heart failure: role of aldosterone antagonismEmail this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The risk of hyperkalaemia in patients with heart failure has increased in the past few years together with the evolution of pharmacological treatment for these patients. This significant change has been associated with the introduction of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers (ARBs), and aldosterone antagonists. High potassium concentrations in heart failure could lead to life threatening events, and therefore should be taken seriously. In this review we summarise the information about potassium homeostasis in heart failure and the current risk of developing potentially serious hy...
Source: Postgraduate Medical Journal - March 17, 2010 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Poggio, R., Grancelli, H. O, Miriuka, S. G Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals