Travel Warning

Travel warning with capecitabine.

Capecitabine has been shown to have single-agent activity in recurrent and metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma. Significantly better survival was observed in patients who had severe hand–foot syndrome treated with capecitabine [1]. Modifying the dosing schedule can be used to manage hand– foot syndrome [2]. USA international airports have been fingerprinting foreign visitors for many years. Eac...

Earthquake Damage Detection in Buildings and Early Warning Based on Wave Travel Times

This paper describes a novel method for structural health monitoring of buildings, currently being developed at the University of Southern California for future applications in earthquake early warning systems. The method uses data from vibrational sensors and is based on detecting changes in travel times of waves propagating through the structure. It is an intermediate scale method, which can ...

An early warning on early warning systems!

Early warning scores: a health warning.

Early warning scores are frequently used in UK adult emergency departments (EDs) and are gaining traction in paediatric emergency care. Like many innovations with inherent face validity, they have great appeal to clinicians, managers and commissioners. However, it is important to ensure unintended consequences and balancing measures are mitigated. We review the background to their development a...

Travel.

In this report we describe a case of typhoid fever in a Czech patient with history of travel to India and discuss antibiotic treatment failure which led to the relapse of fever. Case report Travel history A previously healthy 31-year-old man from the Czech Republic visited India from 2 October to 28 November 2008. Before leaving the Czech Republic he had received neither vaccination (travellers...