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Postgraduate Medicine

THE most important and most costly industrial disease is contact dermatitis and the most common cause of that is chromate sensitivity. This collection of monographs, edited by Dr Desmond Burrows is timely and fills an important gap in our literature. Chrome is very widely used in industry and its use is increasing yearly, no less than 124 different jobs in industry where workers are exposed to ...

Postgraduate Quiz

A 37 year old gentleman with recurrent chest pain and dyspnoea on exertion was referred for cardiac CT examination after an equivocal exercise stress test.

Postgraduate Medicine

Background: The use of bioidentical hormones, including progesterone, estradiol, and estriol, in hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has sparked intense debate. Of special concern is their relative safety compared with traditional synthetic and animal-derived versions, such as conjugated equine estrogens (CEE), medroxyprogesterone acetate (MPA), and other synthetic progestins. Proponents for bioi...

Postgraduate medicine

Bill Strain's Belfast and its Charitable Society1 established him as more than just a doctor who indulged an interest in local history. The book (based on his 1955 Queen's PhD thesis) was wellresearched, well written and well received; an important contribution to the history of Belfast. Three later articles, based on impeccably compiled addresses to the Ulster Medical Society respectively char...

The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine and the Postgraduate Medical Journal.