David Hunt Linder

David Oliver: Jeremy Hunt was wrong to blame the "irresponsible BMA" for his own mistakes.

On Sunday, Jeremy Hunt gave an unconvincing appearance on the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show. With a further strike by junior doctors planned forWednesday 10 February, the host doggedly questioned the health secretary. Marr challenged Hunt’s repeated claims that excess deaths associated with weekend admission were preventable and that medical understaffing was the clear cause. Even when confronted with...

The Incompatibility of Omniscience and Intentional Action : A Reply to David P . Hunt

Abrahamsson I, Berglundh T, Linder E

Materials and Methods: For a prior study by the same authors, a titanium implant similar in shape to the Straumann ITI® solid screw implant was designed with a pitch distance of 1.25 mm and a 0.40 mm trough between the threads to form a wound chamber for microscopic evaluation. The experimental device had either turned/machined (T) or sand blasted with large grit and acid etched (SLA) surface. ...

Experiences with the Linder-Guist operation.

IN dedicating this article to Professor Karl Lindner in honour of his 70th birthday, the author acknowledges a debt which he among many ophthalmic surgeons-and their patients-owes to this pioneer of the surgery of retinal detachment; a debt which, unlike other debts, must rejoice the creditor in the knowledge that it will ever grow and ever remain unpaid. Particular reference is made to Lindner...

Witch-hunt

Beginning two years ago, the US Dept of Health and Human Services began "special reviews" of all current research grants that involved harm reduction, sex and drugs, and continues its ban on funding of needle exchange. With Bush's second term, the campaign was extended to all US funded international programs that dealt with these issues and populations. And, most recently, the US has again unde...