To further explore controversies surrounding parental presence and children’s anxiety during anesthesia induction, Caldwell-Andrews et al. devised and tested a measure to examine parents’ motivation to be present during the induction process: Motivation for Parental Presence during Induction of Anesthesia (MPPIA). The team then used the newly created measure to determine if the level of parent ...

A 76-year-old woman complained of abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant and fever that had been developing over the previous 10 days. On examination, she presented pain in the right upper quadrant with positive Murphy’s sign. Computed tomography showed the presence of acute cholecystitis and, as a casual finding, the presence of cholelithiasis with air in its interior (Fig. 1). The presenc...

This Is a Story about Controls Unraveling the pathogenesis of a complex disease is daunting. Variation in multiple genes and multiple environmental factors could be at play, as could variation in the interactions of these risk factors with each other. Lest you despair, Cadwell et al. prove that it is possible to reveal features of the disease process through a careful set of experiments with go...

not advocate the use in this country of some of the blatant methods that have been tried in America, but far more might be done by use of the Press and the Poster in teaching the public some of the elementary rules of health. There is a great distinction between ' false publicity' that aims mainly at personal advertising and the true publicity that aims at arousing interest and educates the pub...

X linked hydrocephalus and MASA syndrome are clinically related, neurological disorders with an X linked recessive mode of inheritance. Although originally described as distinct entities, their similarity has become apparent as the number of reported families has increased and a high degree ofintraand interfamilial variation in clinical signs noted for both disorders. Consideration of this clin...

Figures 2 and 3 are time-lapse frames taken of the Sacramento WSR-57 radar repeater scope during the early morning hours of 'Dec. 20, 1968. A Fairchild recording camera was used. The aperture setting was f/8, and the film was 35-mm Eastman Plus-X, type 4231. Almost all echoes in the photographs are ground clutter. Figure 2 (1136 GMT) shows a weak apparent hook-or 6-shaped precipitation echo (A)...