Obituary for Air Marshal Amarjit Singh Chahal (25 December 1929–21 June 2015)

OBITUARY: Giorgio Gambale (1955-2015)

Fig. 1 Giorgio Gambale (1955-2015) Giorgio Gambale (Fig. 1) was born November 14, 1955 and died October 16, 2015 at his home in Bologna, Italy, surrounded by his family and friends after a one year battle with cancer. He received his medical degree in Bologna in 1980 and he got a postgraduate degree in Anesthesia and Intensive Care in 1983 and in Pneumology in 1987. He worked at Maggiore Hospit...

Screening for Food Insecurity in Six Veterans Administration Clinics for the Homeless, June–December 2015

OBJECTIVE We assessed findings from a food-insecurity screening of a national sample of Veterans Administration clinics for homeless and formerly homeless veterans. METHODS We reviewed results from initial screenings administered at 6 Veterans Administration primary care clinics for the homeless and responses from clinic staff members interviewed about the screening program. RESULTS A total...

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Obituary: Professor Keith Rayner (1943–2015)

Keith was the world's leading expert in the study of the cognitive mechanisms underlying the ability to read in children and adults. In the 1970s, he pioneered the use of eye-tracking methodology in psychological research, which enabled the precise measurement and manipulation of read text with millisecond control. Through Keith's work, researchers can accurately predict how long an adult will ...

Louse-borne relapsing fever – report of four cases in Switzerland, June-December 2015

BACKGROUND Louse-borne relapsing fever (LBRF) is a neglected disease that has been restricted to East Africa for many decades. Several cases in refugees from the Horn of Africa have been recently diagnosed in four European countries. CASE PRESENTATION We report four additional cases of LBRF in asylum seekers from Somalia and Eritrea who presented with fever shortly after arriving in Switzerla...