Keen Sight of Fish

Commentary on 'What is the point: will screening mammography save my life?' by Keen and Keen

Commentary on Keen and Keen 'What is the point: will screening mammography save my life?' BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 2009.

A keen eye for risk.

A 56 year old woman was referred to the rapid access chest pain clinic with stable angina pectoris. Her only cardiovascular risk factor was a family history of atherosclerosis, with her mother suffering from myocardial infarction at 50. Her body mass index was 20 kg/m and the main abnormality on examination was the eye sign shown in . Fasting serum cholesterol and low density lipoprotein were b...

Industry toxicologists keen on reducing animal use.

a sight for sore eyes: diplostomum and tylodelphys in the eyes of fish

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A Sight for Sore Eyes: Diplostomum and Tylodelphys in the Eyes of Fish

ylodelphys Diesing, 1850 and Diplostomum von Nordmann, 1832 are trematode parasites of Order Strigeatida, Family Diplostomidae, which co-populate the eyes of teleost fish in the metacerarial stage. Fish, infested by these species, develop impaired vision and morbidity of the eye eventually developing a condition known as 'pop-eye'. Fish with heavy infestation, called diplostomiasis, lose weight...