BACKGROUND Physician-assisted suicide was legalized in Oregon in October 1997. There are data on patients who have received prescriptions for lethal medications and died after taking the medications. There is little information, however, on physicians' experiences with requests for assistance with suicide. METHODS Between February and August 1999, we mailed a questionnaire to physicians who w...

aPrograma de Pós-graduação em Biodiversidade e Conservação, Universidade Federal do Maranhão – UFMA, Av. dos Portugueses, 1966, Cidade Universitária, CEP 65080-805, São Luís, MA, Brazil bLaboratório de Estudos sobre Abelhas – LEA, Departamento de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Maranhão – UFMA, Av. dos Portugueses, 1966, Cidade Universitária, CEP 65080-805, São Luís, MA, Brazil cCentro de Ciê...

A new species of Solanum from the Australian "andromonoecious bush tomato clade" of Solanum subgenus Leptostemonum is described. Solanum jobsonii Martine, J.Cantley, & L.M.Lacey, sp. nov. is part of the S. eburneum Symon species group. It most closely resembles S. eburneum and S. watneyi Martine & Frawley of the northwestern part of the Northern Territory, but is separated geographically from t...

RIBOSOMAL PROTEIN S12 AND AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTICS MODULATE A-SITE mRNA CLEAVAGE AND TRANSFER-MESSENGER RNA (tmRNA) ACTIVITY IN ESCHERICHIA COLI* Laura E. Holberger and Christopher S. Hayes From the Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, and the Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-9610 Running tit...

1 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, 735 State St., Suite 300, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA. E-mail: [email protected]; phone: +1-805-892-2522; fax: +1-805-892-2510. 2 Centre d'Ecologie Fonctionnelle et Evolutive, U.M.R. 5175, 1919 Route de Mende, F34293 Montpellier Cedex 5, France. 3 Department of Zoology, University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dun...

Cerebrospinal fluid-borne metastases were demonstrated by metrizamide myelography in 20 children with primary intracranial tumors, posterior fossa medulloblastomas being the most common. The lumbosacral region was affected most often, with nerve root thickening, nodularity, and irregularity of the thecal sac. Cord cloaking, nodularity, and meningeal disease were common in the cervical and thora...