This pilot study compared the toxicity of a one hour with a four hour amphotericin B infusion in children. There were more severe chills in the former group on the first day of infusion, and more hypotension in the latter group over the study duration.

This paper focuses on the development of a unique wireless pH and temperature monitoring system to assess pig meat quality. Pale, soft and exudative (PSE) pig meat continues to be a major problem in the pig meat industry today. The PSE condition in pork is related to a number of factors including genetics, pre-slaughter stress and insufficient chilling of pig carcasses, which cause a rapid rate...

To be found guilty of serious professional misconduct is dreadful for any doctor. It is also a chilling moment when one doctor watches another being found guilty of the charge. On the morning ofMonday 6 March I sat in the public gallery at the General Medical Council and watched as Dr James Mills was found guilty of serious professional misconduct. The gravity of the moment stuck terror into me...

Ague; or, Intermittent Fever" By M. D. O'Connell, M.D., M.Ch., L.M., SurgeonMaj or, Medical Staff. Calcutta: Thacker, Spink & Co., 1885. This pamphlet is divided into two parts, in the first of which the author treats of the distinction between Ague and Remittent Fever, whilst, in the second, following Moore and Oldham, he endeavours to prove that Ague, as distinguished from Remittent Fever, is...

‘Hippocrates’ the father of modern medicine; characterized ‘pleuritis’ by some demarcating features such as chest pain, fever, chills with shivering, dry cough associated breathing difficulties orthopnoea & tachypnoea. Pleuritis can be differentiated into its marked tributaries like sanguineous, bilious, which is a subject to well precised diagnosis avoid forthcoming execrable complications ple...

warming, at north and south range limits James S. Clark*, Carl Salk, Jerry Melillo and Jacqueline Mohan Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA; Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27705, USA; Institute of Behavioral Science, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado 80309, USA; International Institute for App...