Centre Stage: Radical Theatre in America, 1925-1934

Balancing operating theatre and bed capacity in a cardiothoracic centre.

Cardiothoracic surgery requires many expensive resources. This paper examines the balance between operating theatres and beds in a specialist facility providing elective heart and lung surgery. Without both operating theatre time and an Intensive Care bed a patient's surgery has to be postponed. While admissions can be managed, there are significant stochastic features, notably the cancellation...

Radical radiotherapy in stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)--Singapore National Cancer Centre experience.

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to assess the outcome of radical treatment for stage I non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with external beam radiation therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective series of 23 patients with stage I NSCLC treated radically with radiotherapy from September 1997 to December 2004 at the National Cancer Centre, Singapore. Eighteen patients had 3D conformal...

Letters 1934..1934

Sir, With interest we read the editorial by Wolf on obesity as a renal risk factor [1]. We fully support the author’s view that overweight and insulin resistance, as mediators of renal risk, deserve attention not only in morbidly obese patients with overt insulin resistance, but also in renal patients with less severe obesity. Recent data from our group suggest that the impact of overweight and...

WNT Takes Centre Stage in Border Control

Those who follow politics know that the borders between countries regulated suggesting that WNTs could be decisive for NPB fate acquisican cause disagreements and sometimes evenwar, and that border control is an ongoing source of controversy. A different—but not less controversial—border is established during embryogenesis in vertebrates: the neural plate border (NPB) that separates neural and ...

Using Theatre to Stage Instructional and Organizational Transformation