Sociology Compass. 2017;11:e12456. https://doi.org/10.1111/soc4.12456 Abstract In the societal debate surrounding voluntary euthanasia or physician‐assisted suicide, there is a concern that older people will be left exposed to any legislation, subject to either faint suggestion or outright coercion from familial or professional carers. Whilst it is critical to take account of older people’s pot...

Copyright © 2008 American Heart Association. All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0194-911X. Online 72514 Hypertension is published by the American Heart Association. 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.107.105742 2008;51;952-959; originally published online Feb 7, 2008; Hypertension Megan Coylewright, Jane F. Reckelhoff and Pamela Ouyang Menopause and Hypertension: An A...

R apid advances in the basic and medical sciences, while rapidly expanding our knowledge base on a host of physiological processes (and their cellular and organismal consequences when disrupted), are also posing a significant burden. The sheer volume of information amassed from a host of experimental systems and model organisms can represent a daunting assimilation task to both the neophyte and...

C ARDIFF’S magnificent City Hall played host to this year’s Annual Conference. Five hundred delegates attended the first new-format conference designed to be a shop window for the best of British and international psychology. Feedback from members over past years has led to a shorter, more intensive and higherquality event with a smaller number of sessions taking place at the same time (for thi...

Asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are highly prevalent in older people [1–4]. This well established fact has not, however, overcome the problem of underdiagnosis or misdiagnosis of both conditions in old age, with the inevitable effect on morbidity , and possibly mortality [1, 5]. Properly performed spirometric measurements of Forced Expiratory Volume in 1 second (FEV1) an...

OBJECTIVE to obtain insight into the relationship between euthanasia/physician-assisted suicide (EAS) and the age of patients to whom it was administered. DESIGN a descriptive retrospective study. SAMPLE cases of EAS reported between 1984 and 1993, in the province of North Holland in The Netherlands. These data are not available for the rest of The Netherlands. RESULTS between 1984 and 19...

Department of Dermatology, Rajarajeswari Medical College and Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India A 40‐year‐old female patient born to a second‐degree consanguineous marriage presented to us with complaints of premature graying of hair and diffuse loss of hair over the scalp, eyelashes, and eyebrows since 3 years. There was history of developing multiple depigmented and hyperpigmented macules ...