"It shall be the effort of my life to shed honor on your diploma"thus spoke Elizabeth Blackwell as she accepted her diploma and became the first woman to be granted the degree Doctor of Medicine by a recognized school of medicine.t She had registered as student number 130 in the Medical Department of Geneva University on 30 November, 1847.: Thus, a century has passed during which women have bec...

illustrated, 24s). London: Oxford University Press, 1965 PROFESSOR LACHMAN'S BooK fulfills a long felt need in the pre-clinical course. The dilemma in any teaching programme of gross anatomy is that the student too often fails to realise that tnuch of the mass of anatomical information he acquires is directly applicable to clinical medicine. Too often, if not always, the student finds at the be...

The popular stereotypes surrounding various types of hacking and computing addiction (e.g. Turkle, 1995) indicate that ‘addicts’ tend to be socially unskilled male teenagers who have little or no social life and/or self-confidence. Recent surveys have confirmed that a vast majority of Internet users are in fact male. A survey by Pitkow and Kehoe (1996) indicated that 32% of users access the Int...

BACKGROUND Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important nosocomial pathogen that exhibits multiple drug resistance with increasing frequency, especially to carbapenems making patient treatment difficult. Carbapenem-resistance may be caused by porin gene mutations, active drug efflux, and carbapenemase production. This study evaluated the incidence of genes responsible for carbapenemase production in ...

OBJECTIVE To report outcomes in percutaneous ductal closure using the Amplatzer duct occluder type two (ADO II). METHODS Records of patients admitted for percutaneous closure of patent ductus arteriosus (PDA) were reviewed. RESULTS From May 2009 to July 2012, 36 patients were assigned to closure using the ADO II. There were 21 females and 15 males. The median age was 16.5 (2-233) months; me...

BACKGROUND Low- and middle-income countries are facing a dual disease burden with infectious diseases (e.g., gastrointestinal tract infections) and non-communicable diseases (e.g., diabetes) being common. For instance, chronic parasite infections lead to altered immune regulatory networks, anemia, malnutrition, and diarrhea with an associated shift in the gut microbiome. These can all be pathwa...

If humans have a defensible claim of supremacy in the animal kingdom, it might lie in our superior cognitive abilities, which have endowed our species with unparalleled powers to probe our world. Those fundamental abilities—some shared with other species— help us make sense of space and number, use language, and forge social partnerships, to name a few skills. To gain sophisticated insight into...