Lady Sybil’s death inDownton Abbey: how right and wrong are her doctors?

The right and the wrong with epilepsy and her science

This is a commentary and an opinion paper attempting a critical reassessment of the methods and practices of epilepsy research as we see it. The enormous progress in the field of epilepsy in recent years is a cause of celebration. Advances have been made on most fronts, and the position of patients with epilepsy in society has greatly improved. However, there have also been culs-de-sac and dead...

Ali Kosh Lady and her Artificially Modified Head: An Appraisal

We had the opportunity to examine the cranium of a young woman found at the well-known Neolithic site of Ali Koshon the Deh Luran plain in southwestern Iran. It has previously been claimed that her head shows traces of modification,a practice which can be termed as either cultural or artificial cranial modification. Here, we describe several macroscopiccharacteristics of the modified crania and...

How many doctors are enough?

Surely nurses are right to challenge doctors.

I and some of my fellow students were astonished at the letter about the consequences of not following a consultant's instructions (letters June 4).

How Many Solar Neutrino Experiments Are Wrong?

Ten recently-published solar models give Be neutrino uxes that lie within a range of 10% of the average value, a convergence that is independent of uncertainties in the measured laboratory rate of the Be(p; )B reaction. If nothing happens to solar neutrinos after they are created (a la standard electroweak theory) and the operating solar neutrino experiments are correct, then the Be solar neutr...