An East Anglian Harvest Custom

Knappers' rot. Silicosis in East Anglian flint-knappers.

ALONG THE line of the prehistoric trackway Icknield Way, a ridge of chalk, five miles wide, extends through west Norfolk to north-west Suffolk.' Beneath it lies-a seam of floorstone flint that Neolithic men exploited when they dug a series of large and elaborate mines to extract the flint at a site in south-west Norfolk now known as Grime's Graves. Over the succeeding four thousand years when t...

Factor V Leiden and thermolabile methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene variants in an East Anglian preeclampsia cohort.

Preeclampsia is a heritable condition that develops as a result of widespread vascular endothelial dysfunction. The thrombotic tendency in this condition has suggested a number of candidate genes, and there have been recent reports of positive association with the Leiden variant of factor V and the thermolabile variant of methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase. We attempted to reproduce these resu...

Oilseed rape allergy: is it significant? An investigation into its prevalence in an East Anglian population, UK

Survey of general practitioners' attitudes to AIDS in the North West Thames and East Anglian regions.

As the numbers of people suffering from human immunodeficiency virus infection and the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) increase, so will the contribution to care required from general practice. A postal questionnaire survey was therefore carried out among general practitioners in the North West Thames and East Anglian regions to determine their attitudes to AIDS and the issues it rai...

The giraffe: the emergency care practitioner; Fit for purpose? The East Anglian experience.

T his short report describes the background and development of the new emergency care practitioner (ECP) programme run by the East Anglian Ambulance NHS Trust (EAAT) and the Health Schools of the University of East Anglia (UEA). The programme encompasses the emerging national competencies for the ECP. Although the first pilot cohort of 10 paramedics has yet to complete the course at the time of...