“Her Room was Her World”: Nellie Sloggett and North Cornish Folklore

The diagnosis was in her birthday party!

An 89-year-old lady was admitted to our hospital with a history of recurrent falls and episodic nocturnal confusion. Routine testing revealed capillary blood glucose levels fluctuating between 1.6 and 3.2mmol/l (28.8–57.6mg/dl). There was no history of diabetes mellitus and she was not on medications that could cause hypoglycemia. A detailed history and observation discounted the possibility of...

The Tash her Father Wore : World Literature ,

This article studies the Turkish-German writer Kemal Kurt’s Ja, sagt Molly (1998) [‘Yes, says Molly’], an ironic meta-fiction to which little critical attention has been paid. Kurt questions the representation of Turks as untutored aspirants to Western culture and challenges the traditional images of exclusion and discrimination. Through a study of his use of pastiche and references to World Li...

A child playing hide-and-seek runs to the corner of the room and covers her eyes with a pillow while her father counts to ten, believing that if she cannot see her father, then her father cannot see her

Expression of heregulin, phosphorylated HER-2, HER-3 and HER-4 in HER-2 negative breast cancers.

A significant number of HER-2 amplified breast cancers is effectively treated by trastuzumab and further shows receptor-enhanced chemosensitivity. Recent studies have postulated transactivation of HER-2 also in tumors expressing phosphorylated/activated HER-2 (pHER-2) and of the HER-3/HER-4 ligand heregulin (HRG), independent of HER-2 amplification. As a consequence, a subset of tumors without ...

Marie Bonaparte, her first two patients and the literary world.

Marie Bonaparte (1882-1962) played a critical role in the development of psychoanalysis in France. Her clinical activity is not well known yet she was one of the first female French psychoanalysts. The journalist-writers Alice and Valerio Jahier were Bonaparte's first two patients. She conducted this dual analysis with Rudolph Loewenstein (1898-1976). Alice and Valerio exchanged analysts on sev...