Dr. Edwin Lindsay Dunn

Rebuttal Comments from Dr. Dunn and Dr. Wechsler

I ntroduction: In recent years a number of emerging new therapies have become available for the treatment of severe asthma among which bronchial ther-moplasty is the only nonpharmacologic intervention that has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration in 2010. 1 Although bronchial thermoplasty has great promise for the patient with severe asthma and is now within the thera...

Response to Dr. Edwin Yager's open letter to the editor.

Rob Dunn

weather pattern. In February, the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) warned in its routine forecasts that the bleaching observed in the Pacific last year may be the start of a third global catastrophe for coral reefs. And this time, it cannot be blamed on El Niño. It is simply down to the general warming of the oceans, which in 2014 reached the highest average temperature...

Victorian values: the life and times of Dr. Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S

MARY P. ENGLISH, Victorian values: the life and times of Dr. Edwin Lankester, M.D., F.R.S., Bristol, Biopress Ltd (The Orchard, Clanage Road, Bristol BS3 2JX, Avon), 1990, pp. xvi, 187, illus., £29.50 (0-948737-14-X). Edwin Lankester was born into a lower middle-class family in Suffolk in 1814 and died of the complications of diabetes in London in 1874. As a young man, he embarked on a medical ...

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consequences of unprotected intercourse or contraceptive failure: It is estimated that among Australian teenagers, one abortion occurs for every teenage birth,7 and that the number of teenagers having abortions each year has more than doubled since 1971.8 Young people in Australia are exposed to two potentially conflicting discourses regarding sexual health: one focusing on safer sex and the ot...