Hippocrates, the father of Medicine, spoke of the importance of sleep through this wonderful aphorism. However, it can be said that it was only in 1929 that the modern era of sleep investigation began, with the description of the electrical activity of the human brain by the German psychiatrist Hans Berger, who created the term “electroencephalography”. In Chicago in the 1930s, Loomis, Harvey a...

There is now a societal and cultural expectation that doctors and nurses should feel, and display, empathy for their patients. Many commentators argue that medical and nursing students should be taught empathy. Empathy, however, is difficult to define: it is not the same as kindness, as it implies a degree of psychological insight into what the patient is thinking or feeling. Empathy is seen by...

Genus Malassezia comprises of 14 species of "yeast like fungi," 13 of which are lipophilic and 1 is nonlipophilic. They are known commensals and in predisposed individuals they commonly cause a spectrum of chronic recurrent infections. They rarely also cause serious illnesses like catheter-related blood stream infections, CAPD associated peritonitis etc., Though these fungi have been known to m...