David Emery Wolfe, MD January 3, 1933–June 3, 2014

Remembering David L. Epstein, MMM, MD, 1944-2014.

On March 4, 2014, David Epstein, MD, was suddenly taken from us and we are left empty and saddened. David was a world-renowned glaucoma clinician-scientist who made seminal contributions to our profession in many key areas, including basic science research, research mentoring, the education and training of residents and fellows, administrative management, and health care policy at the universit...

Lecture 1 — January 3

1.1 Administrative details • Instructors: Aditya Gopalan ([email protected]), Parimal Parag ([email protected]) • Teaching assistant: Raghava GD ([email protected]) • Grading policy: Homework assignments (including programming exercises): 30%, Scribing lectures: 10%, Midterm exam: 20%, Final exam: 40% • Course webpage: www.ece.iisc.ernet.in/∼parimal/estimation.html • Sc...

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January 2014

The prevalence of ocular lesions associated with hypertension in a population of geriatric cats in Auckland, New Zealand JM Carter, AC Irving, JP Bridges and BR Jones AIMS: To provide an estimate of the prevalence of ocular lesions associated with hypertension in geriatric cats in Auckland, New Zealand and to evaluate the importance of examination of the ocular fundi of cats over eight years of...

January 2014

In the 1940s and 1950s, the major nutritional diseases prevalent in large sections of the population were kwashiorkar (acute protein-energy malnutrition), keratomalacia (attributable to severe vitamin A deficiency), beri-beri (arising from vitamin B1 deficiency) and pellagra (nicotinic acid deficiency). Over the course of two to three decades, the most florid manifestations of these malnutritio...