Department of Virology, University College London School of Life and Medical Sciences, London, Department of Virology, King’s College Hospital, London, Department of Haematology, Freeman Road Hospital, Newcastle, West of Scotland specialist virology centre, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, Birmingham HPA Laboratory, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham, Department of Haematology, King...

This is the first of a projected "Maudsley Monograph" series intended to report work carried out at The Institute of Psychiatry (Univ. Lond.) and the associated Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals. In this study Dr. Sainsbury sets out to investigate the social characteristics of the various boroughs in the County of London and their effect on the individuals living in them. He shows that the d...

Kveim tests were done in forty-eight patients with Crohn's disease. Of forty-five with definite or probable Crohn's disease, twenty-three had a positive Kveim test. This finding could be explained: (1) By cross-reactivity between sarcoidosis and Crohn's disease antigens; (2) By an aetiological agent common to the two diseases, or (3) By a property of the Kveim test material used in testing.

Kveim tests were done in forty-eight patients with Crohn's disease. Of forty-five with definite or probable Crohn's disease, twenty-three had a positive Kveim test. This finding could be explained: (1) By cross-reactivity between sarcoidosis and Crohn's disease antigens; (2) By an aetiological agent common to the two diseases, or (3) By a property of the Kveim test material used in testing.

Favism is an acute haemolytic anaemia caused by an acquired allergy to a protein of the broad bean (Viciafava). Reports of the disease date from before the fifth century B.C. and in a good review of the literature Luisada (1941) points out that favism used to have a very wide distribution in the Mediterranean basin. It now occurs particularly in the Sardinians, who seem to have retained the mor...

the sick ; now the advent of preventive medicine augurs, let us hope, a new era for mankind. The idea that disease can be arrested at its beginning, and much misery and sorrow saved, has received scientific as well as popular encouragement ; and it is from the popular side?to bring the matter home to the man in the street? that Health Week was originally founded. A certain amount of apathy exis...

Daniel S. Poon, Ehud Reich, Victoria M. Smith, Judith Kingston, M. Ashwin Reddy, John L. Hungerford, Mandeep S. Sagoo 1 Royal London Hospital, London, UK 2 Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, UK 3 St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, UK 4 Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK 5 UCL Institute of Ophthalmology, London, UK * Address for reprints: Mr Mandeep S. Sagoo, MB, PhD, FRCS (Ed), FRCOphth, M...

1National Addiction Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College, London, De Crespigny Park, London SE5 8AF, UK, 2Bexley Substance Misuse Service, South London and Maudsley NHS Trust, London, UK and 3Molecular Psychiatry Laboratory, Research Department of Mental Health Sciences, Windeyer Institute of Medical Sciences, University College London Medical School, 46 Cleveland Street, London W1T ...

Corresponding author: Dimitri P. Mikhailidis MD, FRCP, FRCPath Department of Clinical Biochemistry (Vascular Disease Prevention Clinics) Royal Free Hospital Campus University College London Medical School University College London (UCL) Pond Street, London NW3 2QG, UK Phone: 02078302258 Fax: 02078302235 E-mail: [email protected] 1 Department of Internal Medicine, Medical School, University of...