OBJECTIVES The increased incidence of multiple myeloma (MM) across China and East Asia stimulated us to examine the current rates in Great Britain, where rates increased dramatically in the second half of the 20th century. However, rates have been stable and high during this period in Malmö, Sweden, where there is a keen interest in MM. We thus assessed recent changes in MM incidence in Great B...

* Lecturer and Research Associate, School of Social Work, University of Toronto; author and formerly social worker in Great Britain. "Subject to the provisions of this Act, every person who, on or after the appointed day, being over school leaving age and under pensionable age, is in Great Britain, and fulfills such conditions as may be prescribed as to residence in Great Britain, shall become ...

We document the intergenerational wealth transmission between adult offspring and their parent's using Wealth Assets Survey for Great Britain. estimate an elasticity of 0.4 Rank-Rank 0.3 find individuals in 60s is lower than those currently aged 30s early 40s, though rank based estimates are stable. Our estimation results imply that 3.8 percentage points higher when comparing people with same a...

Harper, P. S. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 505. Congenital myotonic dystrophy in Britain. I. Clinical aspects. A clinical and genetic study of congenital myotonic dystrophy in Britain has been carried out in 70 patients from 54 sibships. The clinical aspects are analysed here, and the existence of a syndrome clinically distinct from myotonic dystrophy of later onset is confirme...