3rd April: 2nd Sunday of Easter

Academic paediatrics: Easter Island or Easter Sunday?

W hen the last tree on Easter Island was felled, the inhabitants belatedly realised that there was no escape from an eon of ‘‘groundhog days’’. Paediatrics, a discipline championed in the UK, faces a comparably monotonous future bereft of innovation and improvement. Levene and Olver present alarming data on staffing changes in UK academic paediatrics between 1999 and 2004. Most worrying is a 26...

Sunday 24 April 2016

Introduction: In one hundred and sixty stories, told by cancer patients, what did they say? This original research found that benefits resulted for both the patients, by telling their story, and the professionals providing their care who actively listened. Methods: The research being described concentrated exclusively on understanding what the patients were expressing through their storytelling...

aretaeus of cappadocia (1st/2nd - 2nd/3rd century ad), descriptions on cancer

aretaeus of cappadokia, lived in an era when cancer was already a disease, well known for its deadly outcome. inside his momentous treatise, composed of 8 books, he had outlined various types of cancer. he had understood cancer’s fatality and proposed some curative treatments. our manuscript composes the fragments related to cancer, in an effort to present aretaeus’ views on the matter.  he had...

Analysis of the mechanical behaviour of materials through the 2nd and 3rd order stress determination

Based on the shift of the Bragg reflection and its broadening, 1st and 3rd order internal stresses in crystalline materials can be determined respectively by diffraction method. Between these two orders, we can define a mesoscopic scale, where the stresses come from different arrangements of dislocation arrays or grain misorientation in a polycrystal. For all materials, three orders internal st...

RESULTS OF THE 2nd YEAR 3rd RESEARCHER MEETING ON NOVEMBER 22nd, 2001