This Is Our Song for Today

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Our Industry Today

Holstein heifer and bull calves (n = 52) at Ames Plantation (Grand Junction, TN) and Piedmont Research Station (Salisbury, NC) were blocked by sex and assigned randomly to receive 3.8 L of maternal colostrum in one feeding, 1.9 L in two feedings at a 10to 12-h interval, or 1.9 L in two feedings at a 10to 12-h interval plus 272 g of colostrum supplement at the first feeding. The colostrum supple...

Microsurgical reversal of sterilisation - is this still clinically relevant today?

INTRODUCTION Women with previous tubal sterilisation seeking fertility are faced with treatment options of reconstructive tubal surgery or in vitro fertilisation (IVF) techniques. The aim was to assess the current viability of tubal anastomosis in a local clinical practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective cohort review of all sterilisation reversal cases from January 1998 to January 200...

"I don't think this is theoretical; this is our lives": how erasure impacts health care for transgender people.

For people who are transgender, transsexual, or transitioned (trans), access to primary, emergency, and transition-related health care is often problematic. Results from Phase I of the Trans PULSE Project, a community-based research project in Ontario, Canada, are presented. Based on qualitative data from focus groups with 85 trans community members, a theoretical framework describing how erasu...

‘This town’s a different town today’:

This article considers recent policing and regulatory responses to the night-time economy in England and Wales. Drawing upon the findings of a broader two-year qualitative investigation of local and national developments in alcohol policy, it identifies a dramatic acceleration of statutory activity, with 12 new or revised powers, and several more in prospect, introduced by the Labour Government...