Teenager seeks to overturn GMC judgment

Collaborative effort seeks to curb hospital infections.

HOSPITAL-ACQUIREDINFECTIONSREmainapersistentproblem,affecting about 1 in 20 patients each year, according to estimates from the US Department of HealthandHuman Services.Butefforts to curb such infections have had mixed results. To achieve better results, 2 groups critical to the management of hospital-acquired infections—infection controlprofessionals, or infection preventionists (IPs), and lab...

Southall: the GMC responds.

Women and the GMC.

Dr George Percival joined the consultant staff when the new building was opened in 1936. Trained in Paris, Lausanne, and Zurich, he knew as well as Dr Jamieson how to deal with leg eczema. Sir Robert Grant, the head of a family already lavishly generous to the University of Edinburgh, was aware of the damage that skin disease could do to his employees, and was unhappy when he developed eczema o...

Europe seeks to double research budget

'This increase is not in any way disproportionate in the context of the 3 per cent objective requested of all member states by 2010,' says research commissioner Philippe Busquin. To achieve it he stresses the necessity of increasing research investment by private companies to the equivalent of 2 per cent of GDP and national public research budget increases up to 1 per cent of GDP. 'We expect to...

Apo-AraC actively seeks to loop.

In the absence of arabinose and interactions with other proteins, AraC, the activator-repressor that regulates the araBAD operon in Escherichia coli, was found to prefer participating in DNA looping interactions between the two well-separated DNA half-sites, araI1 and araO2 at their normal separation of 211 base-pairs rather than binding to these same two half-sites when they are adjacent to on...