Stoke City General Hospital

Sixty Years of Stoke Park Hospital

General Hospital

acute rheumatism are not commonly met with in this country, I have thought them worthy of record. For the abstract of the notes of these cases, I am indebted to Mr. Reilly, Assistant Apothecary of the Ward. In both cases the endocardial lining membrane was affected, and valvular murmurs developed ; in the case of AY. M. a systolic bruit was audible loudest over the aortic valves, not at the ape...

The Stoke Postgraduate Medical Centre.

their educational programmes, possibly by supplying speakers and material. Both the Brook and Lewisham hospitals have been fortunate in receiving grants from the King's Fund, and an excellent centre has already been opened at Lewisham. Brighton have received £15,000 from the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust and has been able to more than double this sum with local support: a major centre is ...

Bird flu developments stoke fears

The appearance of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Europe, and particularly the outbreak reported last month in Turkey, has heightened already raised concerns about the spread of the virus and its potential to seed the next human pandemic. There are new worries about how the disease appeared to infect birds almost simultaneously in 13 provinces scattered around Turkey and further concerns about w...

Oxacilin-resistant Coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) bacteremia in a general hospital at São Paulo city, Brasil

In the last decades, coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS), especially Staphylococcus epidermidis have become an important cause of bloodstream infections. In addition, rates of methicillin-resistance among CoNS have increased substantially, leading to the use of glicopeptides for therapy. The objective of this study was to evaluate eleven consecutives clinically relevant cases of oxacillin-r...