People in more mature democracies may wonder why the British media disseminate so feverishly the opinions of someone described as ‘His Royal Highness’. Puzzlement was doubly justified recently when The Daily Telegraph published an article — flagged by other newspapers with headlines such as “Charles warns against genetic foods” — which it then largely demolished in an editorial. Prince Charles ...

Royal Brompton Hospital locally known as The Brompton, can trace its origins back to the 1840s. As a tuberculosis and respiratory hospital, it pioneered treatment in the field but it was only in the late 1940s that cardiac care was explored. Today, from its West London site in Chelsea, it is still renowned for its respiratory work but throughout the second part of the 20th century, and into the...

Angeles, California merged with Dongguk University and officially changed its name to Dongguk–Royal University (DRU). This merger is the first of its type in the world—no other Korean university has ever acquired a foreign university or college. For Dongguk University, the merger marks a historic milestone in its efforts to diversify and internationalize its academic programs and research facil...

*Royal Wolverhampton Hospitals NHS Trust, Wolverhampton, UK, †Torbay Hospital, Torquay, UK, ‡Department of General Surgery, Manchester Royal Infirmary, Manchester, UK, §Royal Infirmary, Glasgow, UK, ¶Department of Histopathology, Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, Bolton, UK, **Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Charing Cross Hospital, London, UK, ††The Royal Marsden Hospital, London, UK, ‡...

there are already good studies ofparticular crises like that of 1557-1559,21 ofparticular regions like the West Riding,23 the Vale of Trent,", the Lake District" and the area around Bromsgrove47 which can all be used as a basis for further work. These studies incidentally all serve to show that Creighton's descriptions based on mainly literary evidence are not very useful for plotting the cours...

being 152 and the average number occupied daily 156.12, I would point out that your inference is quite correct. The increased number has been caused by additional beds having been fixed in the wards during most of the year. With regard to your last reference in the paragraph that the Report is without an index and that you had to read to the 18th page before you discovered the number of beds, I...

The causes of biological gigantism have received much attention, but only for individual organisms. What selection pressures might favour the evolution of gigantic societies? Here we consider the largest singlequeen insect societies, those of the Old World army ant Dorylus, single colonies of which can have 20 million workers. We propose that colony gigantism in Dorylus arises as a result of an...

FARMFR GEORGE was a mad king, and so we lost the American colonies: such in brief is the recollection of what the man-in-the-street garnered at school. It is remarkable that so little attention has been paid to the nature of George III's malady, and it is a sad reflection on British medical historians that during the 200 years that have elapsed since his first overt attack of illness, there hav...