Recognition of Community-Acquired Anthrax: Has Anything Changed Since 2001?

Anthrax: has the clinical milieu changed since 2001?

Since the anthrax attacks of 2001 (Amerithrax), several important improvements in the knowledge of Bacillus anthracis and the clinical condition it causes have occurred. While much remains to be known about the optimal management of anthrax patients, several approaches that were not widely utilized, available, or known in 2001 would be used in the treatment of critically ill anthrax patients in...

Post-Romanow, post-Kirby; has anything changed?

Patterns of scald injuries in children--has anything changed?

The objective was to study presentation patterns of scald injuries in children and suggest potential countermeasures to reduce these injuries. We retrospectively studied scald injuries in children attending an urban paediatric emergency department between January 1st and December 31st 2008. Data was extracted from our emergency department database using search terms 'burn', 'scald', 'other burn...

After more than a decade, has pet guardianship changed anything?

Support for childlessness: has anything changed between 2008 and 2015?

To cite: Quilliam S. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2015;41:306–308. BACKGROUND 2015 has seen a 65-year-old German mother with 13 children expecting quadruplets, a media storm over the testing of new reproductive techniques on actual human pregnancies, and the autobiography of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown. In such a year, it seems pertinent for the Consumer Correspondent column to exp...