SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS. PHILADELPHIA LARYNGOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Inducible laryngeal obstruction: an official joint European Respiratory Society and European Laryngological Society statement.

Inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO) describes an inappropriate, transient, reversible narrowing of the larynx in response to external triggers. ILO is an important cause of a variety of respiratory symptoms and can mimic asthma. Current understanding of ILO has been hampered by imprecise nomenclature and variable approaches to assessment and management. A task force of the European Respirator...

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

When the name vitamin B,, was proposed by Rickes, Brink, Koniuszy, Wood & Folkers (1948), my colleagues and I debated whether we should adopt the term or retain the earlier name ' anti-pernicious anaemia factor', even when our red crystalline substance was shown to be identical with theirs (Smith & Parker 1948; Fantes, Page, Parker & Smith, 1949). It is now abundantly clear that this substance ...

Proceedings of the Nutrition Society

Proceedings of the nutrition society.

Controversy concerning the relative nutritive merits of protein from plant ‘and animal sources is of long standing. Our conception of the total quantity of protein required has also swung wildly from one extreme to the other. This scientific problem, intrinsically difficult in itself, has been, and still is, emotionally bedevilled by prejudice and sentiment. Recent advances in biochemistry have...

Proceedings of the Helminthological Society of Washington