Mixed blessings for middle-aged mothers

Mixed Blessings. Intensive Care for Newborns

Newborn intensive care, a relatively new medical specialty, has recently become a very controversial one. It involves extremely complicated and expensive technology applied to cases of often uncertain benefit and considerable emotional investment. Many difficult issues remain unresolved, including whether newborn intensive care is an appropriate allocation of increasingly limited medical resour...

Ethics , Health Policy and ( Anti - ) Aging : Mixed Blessings

Comfort for the Middle-Aged

Alkaptonuria in a middle-aged female

Background: Alkaptonuria (AKU) or ochronosis is a rare progressive degenerative arthropathy that results from deficiency of enzyme homogentisate 1,2 dioxygenase (HGD). The features include arthritis of the spine and in larger peripheral joints, with chondrocalcinosis. In this paper, we present a case of alkaptonuria in a 54 year old woman in Tehran, Iran. Case Presentation: A 54 year old woman ...

Middle-Aged Marriage

Edited by Angela Reed. (National Marriage Guidance Council, 2s. 6d.) This is a symposium written by experienced marriage guidance counsellors and edited by Mrs. Angela Reed. It is a useful addition to their series of booklets and offers their usual practical, down-to-earth approach to what is often a sadly neglected period of the human condition. There is a helpful chapter on the physical chang...