Mount Rundle

Fuller and Arendt: A Happy Marriage? Comment on Rundle

Stem cell tensions mount

The US has been a major battle-ground amongst legislators coming to grips with the issue of embryonic stem cell research but the issue is reaching new heights in Italy. Nigel Williams reports.

Evidence Continues to Mount

In recent years, numerous groups of investigators have reported primary aldosteronism (PAL) to be much more common than previously thought.1–4 This has followed recognition of the aldosterone/renin ratio (ARR) as an improved, more sensitive method of screening for PAL and the application of ARR testing to a wider population, to include normokalemic, as well as hypokalemic, hypertensive subjects...

A plastic catheter mount.

Among the disadvantages of catheter mounts in common use is that, as generally manufactured, they have sharp interior angles militating against laminar flow. The diagram illustrates the longitudinal section of a plastic variant in which the narrowing has been chamfered off. It has been found satisfactory in practice, and seems to be standing up robustly to use. It has the additional advantage o...

Mount meningioma with tumor cap.

The association between meningioma and hyperostosis of adjacent calvarium is well established. However, the cause of hyperostosis is still not certain. Various authors in the past have tried to explain this phenomenon by preceding trauma or by bone irritation by the tumor without bone invasion, while some believe it to be because of stimulation of osteoblasts in normal bone by factors secreted ...