O ver the past 2 decades, advanced multimodal imaging has offered much promise for stroke investigators and clini-cians, particularly those interested in using imaging to optimize and extend the time window for acute ischemic stroke therapies. Multimodal imaging has many potential applications in the acute stroke setting, such as the following: (1) to confirm the diagnosis of acute cerebral isc...

The article that follows is part of the Schizophrenia Bulletin's ongoing First Person Accounts series. We hope that mental health professionals—the Bulletin's primary audience—will take this opportunity to learn about the issues and difficulties confronted by consumers of mental health care. In addition, we hope that these accounts will give patients and families a better sense of not being alo...

More than 20 key officials from the American Veterinary Medical Association and the Association of American Veterinary Medical Colleges met with staff from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) December 5–6, 2002, to discuss the increasing convergence of issues confronting human and animal health. Among the officials in attendance were the deans from more than half of all U.S. ve...

Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. Sir—In the latest issue of Acta Orthopaedica, Thorlund et al. (2014) report figures from the Danish National Patient Register (DNPR) showing a 2-fold increase in knee ...

1 Editorial 50 years of publishing social and preventive medicine and epidemiology and community health Fifty years ago a multidisciplinary group of professionals dedicated to promoting "social medicine" established this Journal with the support of the BM7. For the first four volumes, the British J7ournal of Social Medicine (as it was first called) had on the equivalent of its editorial board t...

R efractive surgery and other high-tech methods for correcting the optical aberrations of the eye aim to make the eye optically perfect. The notion that perfect vision may be within our grasp is a distinctly 21st century concept which is a quantum leap forward from the foundations of oph-thalmic practice in the 20th century. Throughout history the assumption has been that the chief cause of poo...

impaCt of aging on the epidemiology of depression Depressive disorders among the elderly are a disabling illness that can result in death and need to be properly diagnosed and treated by clinicians. Although the rates of depressive disorders are lower in the elderly than in younger cohorts, prevalence rates are still high and accounts for nearly two percent of all disability in those over 60. R...

o bjectives: cases of antimicrobial resistance are increasing, partly due to inappropriate prescribing practices by dentists. the purpose of this study was to investigate the prescrib- ing practices and knowledge of dentists with regards to antibiotics. moreover, this study aimed to determine whether the prescriptions comply with the recommended guidelines and whether clinical audit can alter t...

been deliberately omitted from consideration. Of patients who die of malignant lesions, 2 to 4 per cent disclose multiple primary malignant lesions. From reports which do include the lymphomas, it is ap parent that the combination of carcinoma with a lymphosarcoma is extremely rare. Warren and Gates (9) studied 794 cases of mul tiple primary malignant lesions. Ten of these were of carcinoma ass...

Background. Various types of systems have been used for rehabilitation of Spinal cord injury (SCI) individuals, including mechanical orthoses, functional electrical stimulation (FES), hybrid system and robotic devices. Although, the use of robotic systems for rehabilitation of SCI subjects is increasing, there is not enough evidence to determine the positive and side effects of this system. The...