CORESS: raising the profile

Raising profile

Within days of taking office, Colin Blakemore, former professor of physiology at the University of Oxford and now head of the Medical Research Council, was on the road. In the first few months of his appointment he is spending as much time as possible learning at first hand about the strategies for medical research in UK universities, sharing his initial thoughts about the role of the MRC, and ...

DNA microarrays: raising the profile.

Expression profiling using DNA microarrays is starting to come of age. The past year has seen significant advances in the number, scope and quality of studies that incorporate expression profiling experiments. Attention is starting to move on from making DNA microarrays to appropriate experimental design and sophisticated data analysis techniques.

CORESS feedback

Coress feedback

in this issue of CORESS Feedback has been provided by the Clinical Board for Surgical Safety of the Royal College of Surgeons, at the behest of the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), which wishes to draw the attention of surgeons to the risks of inadvertent removal of tissue of other histological origin when operating on pregnant women for presumed appendicitis. Publication of the vignettes...

CORESS feedback

CORESS is a confidential reporting system for surgery. The purpose of CORESS is to promote safety in surgical practice, both within the NHS and in the independent sector. A 32-year-old woman presented as an emergency with right iliac fossa pain and vomiting. She had a medical history of anorexia and bulimia as well as a laparoscopy for gynaeco-logical reasons at another institution several mont...