The stigma associated with mental illness can lead to a range of negative outcomes, including delaying or avoiding help seeking. Identifying the characteristics of people who are more likely to hold stigmatizing attitudes enables the development of targeted stigma reduction programs. However, no previous research has systematically examined the predictors of anxiety stigma. This study used the ...

Stat4 is activated by the cytokines interleukin 12 and alpha interferon (IFN-alpha) and plays a significant role in directing development of naïve CD4(+) T cells to the Th1 phenotype. Signal transducers and activators of transcription (STAT) proteins undergo phosphorylation on a conserved tyrosine residue, resulting in homo- and heterodimerization, nuclear translocation, and DNA binding. Stat4 ...

treasure house waiting to be plundered by historians of other persuasions, who will be immensely grateful for his painstaking research, his marshalling of the primary sources, and his descriptions of the artefacts themselves. The one type of history needs, and feeds on, the other. The obstetrician's armamentarium stays close to the instrumentation, spanning the seventeenth to early twentieth ce...

Methods In 34 patients, the clinician (SMM) assessed 52 joints and computed count of joints with swelling, pain/tenderness, restricted motion and active disease (AD). A global articular severity score (GASS) was obtained by grading symptoms in each joint (0–3 scale) and summing scores. Clinical assessments included physician's and parent's global ratings, functional ability and acute phase reac...

T. Eberlein,1 U. Bangert,2 R. R. Nair,2,4 R. Jones,1 M. Gass,3 A. L. Bleloch,3 K. S. Novoselov,4 A. Geim,4 and P. R. Briddon5 1School of Physics, University of Exeter, Stocker Road, Exeter, EX4 4QL, United Kingdom 2School of Materials, The University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7HS, United Kingdom 3SuperSTEM Laboratories, CCLRC Daresbury Laboratory, Warrington WA4 4AD, United Kingdom 4School o...

1. Gaudio PA. Update on ocular syphilis. Curr Opin Ophthalmol 2006;17:562-6. 2. Song JH, Hong YT, Kwon OW. Acute syphilitic posterior placoid chorioretinitis following intravitreal triamcinolone acetonide injection. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 2008;246:1775-8. 3. Gass JD, Agarwal A, Scott IU. Acute zonal occult outer retinopathy: a long-term follow-up study. Am J Ophthalmol 2002;134:329-39...

Infection of silastic sponge implants after retinal detachment surgery continues to present a problem (Lincoff, Nadel and O'Connor, I970; Russo and Ruiz, I97I; Flindall, Norton, Curtin and Gass, I97I; Ruben and Fitzgerald, 1972). The widespread adoption of cryotherapy has changed the character of this infection from an acute syndrome with scleral abscess formation and intraocular signs, to that...

Central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) was first described by von Graefe in 1866, who named it as ‘relapsing central luetic retinitis’.[1] A variety of names have since been used to describe this idiopathic detachment of the neurosensory retina.[2] It was more than 100 years later that Maumenee, using fluorescein angioscopy, noted that the detachment of the macula resulted from a leak at the le...