Defects less innocent than they look

Why do some people look older than they should?

BACKGROUND As a component of studies on biological age, the age of subjects from their appearance (perceived age) was estimated. OBJECTIVE To determine the factors associated with looking older. METHODS Cross sectional study of London civil servants (318 men, 129 women) in the Department of the Environment study. Perceived age was recorded by an observer and the difference between this age ...

Should we look after babies less than 800 g?

It is a decade since Professors David Milner and Richard Beard produced data to show that 39% of babies born at 25 weeks' gestation and 16% of those born at 24 weeks' gestation were surviving in the major neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) in Britain.' Translated into birth weight, this and other contemporaneous data suggested that at least 20-30% of babies weighing 600-800 g were surviving ...

Persons of tenure: less fortunate than they may seem.

237 THE TITLE OF THIS EDITORIAL SUFFERS, perhaps, from my weakness for witty language; nonetheless, as you will see, it is not insincere. The early life of virtually everyone in the industrialized world consists of—indeed, is dominated by—a seemingly unending sequence of submissions to evaluation by one’s elders and supposed betters. In most walks of life, the character of this sequence shifts ...

Less Than Perfect Procedure

G iven the high prevalence of coronary artery disease in Western countries, selection of the optimal therapeutic strategy for individual cardiac patients has become an issue of utmost costbenefit importance. During the past two decades, large clinical trials have established the respective roles of medical treatment versus coronary artery bypass surgery in the management of patients with corona...

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