Testing times: identifying puberty in an identified skeletal sample

Skeletal age changes in puberty.

Changes in skeletal age and height of 34 Leeds schoolboys were studied in a four year longitudinal survey covering puberty. Tanner and Whitehouse method TW2 was used. In each boy, skeletal age advanced rapidly during puberty, reaching a peak at an age related to that of peak height velocity. The importance of recognising that this acceleration of bone age is normal is stressed, in order to avoi...

Dental caries in a Portuguese identified skeletal sample from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Testing Times

Editorial Testing Times As I write, the inquests have begun. Two natural phenomena, one very large and one very small, have exercised our minds, and our economies, recently. The larger, a volcano under Iceland's Eyjafjallajoekull glacier, comprehensively grounded Europe's commercial airlines, causing chaos and stranding registered voters everywhere. The second was a microscopic villain. The inf...

Testing times for HIV

This Editorial (BMJ 2013;347:f5556, doi:10.1136/bmj.f5556) incorrectly states that a linked Research paper by Read and colleagues investigated “whether the provision of home HIV testing to men who have sex with men attending a health service would increase their frequency of HIV testing over time.” In fact, in Read and colleagues’ study all HIV tests were performed in a public health clinic. Th...

Testing Times for Trojans

The risks to an average PC in 1999 are very different from the risks to that same PC in the earlyand mid-90s, and the manufacturers of traditional anti-virus products are finding that they have to change their products in order to deal with these new threats. However, in order for the transition to be successful, other parts of the anti-virus industry will need to change along with the products.