Operation Packer, March-April 1988, South Eastern Angola: Tumpo, Tumpo and once more Tumpo!!!

South West Orthopoedic Club—Meeting in Truro, April 1988

Workload of a new district AIDS counselling unit, April 1987 to March 1988.

The Hampstead district AIDS counselling unit in London was opened in January 1987. It is staffed by a clinical psychologist, a social worker, and an administrator. From April 1987 to March 1988, 141 new patients and their relatives were referred from a range of clinical departments and 544 counselling sessions were provided. In addition, 666 staff consultations were organised to help colleagues...

Case reports, AANA Journal, April 1988

A case study is presented of a 34-year-old female who was diagnosed with a markedly hydronephrotic right kidney. The patient underwent a cystoscopy and a right nephrectomy during which a pheochromocytoma was suspected and subsequently confirmed by postoperative histologic examination. No laboratory analysis for urinary metanephrines or vanillylmandelic acid was carried out. Major problems assoc...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

The first issue of the World Journal of Critical Care Medicine (WJCCM), whose preparatory work was initiated on December 16, 2010, will be published on February 4, 2012. The WJCCM Editorial Board has now been established and consists of 105 distinguished experts from 27 countries. Our purpose of launching the WJCCM is to publish peer-reviewed, high-quality articles via an open-access online pub...

Acute Lower Respiratory Tract Infections in Soldiers, South Korea, April 2011–March 2012

During April 2011-March 2012, we retrospectively reviewed medical records for South Korea soldiers to assess the etiology and epidemiology of acute viral lower respiratory tract infections. Adenovirus was the most commonly identified virus (63.2%) and the most common cause of pneumonia (79.3%) and hospitalization (76.6%); 3 soldiers died of adenovirus-related illness.