Bryn L. Jones*, Eric C. Kerrigan, Jonathan F. Morrison and Tamer A. Zaki The Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Aeronautics, Imperial College London, London, UK; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, London...

Affiliations a National Institute of Health Research Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, Commonwealth Building, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0NN, United Kingdom. b Infectious Diseases and Immunity, Commonwealth Building, Hammersmith Campus, Imperial College London, Du Cane Road, London, W12 0...

Introduction The London Trauma Conference (#LTC2014) & London Cardiac Arrest Symposium (#LCAS2014) have become an extraordinary international showcase for the innovation, research, talent and passion that is dedicated to the medical care of major trauma and critically ill patients. The 8 London Trauma Conference did not disappoint and, in a reversal of the Royal Geographical Society’s history o...

As part of pandemic preparedness planning, the European Commission (EC) and the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) introduced a procedure to allow the submission and evaluation of core pandemic dossiers (for ‘mock-up’ vaccines) during the inter-pandemic period leading to marketing authorisations which could only be used during an officially declared pandemic (World Health Organization [WHO] Phase...

The moduli dependent Yukawa couplings between twisted sectors of the Z 3 ×Z 3 orbifold are studied.

Dr. William F. Bynum has been appointed lecturer in the History of Medicine and Head of the Sub-Department of the History of Medicine in University College London from 1 October 1973. He replaces Dr. Edwin Clarke, who has assumed the Directorship of the Wellcome Institute of the History of Medicine. Dr. Bynum holds a B.A. in English Literature from Swarthmore College. He obtained his M.D. from ...

In May last year Londoners elected a mayor by direct vote for the first time. The mayor and the London Assembly, together forming the Greater London Authority (GLA), have an electorate of seven million people and command resources of almost 6 billion euros. Four appointed committees—the police authority, the fire and emergency planning authority, TraYc for London and the London Development Agen...

hospitals the income figure on which the percentages are based consists of all income received by the general funds of the various hospitals with the exception of money raised by the special appeal (total ?243,115). The income figure for the Liverpool hospitals includes all money received during the yearb y the institutions (that is, general and other smaller funds). The total of the Voluntary ...

Royal Brompton Hospital locally known as The Brompton, can trace its origins back to the 1840s. As a tuberculosis and respiratory hospital, it pioneered treatment in the field but it was only in the late 1940s that cardiac care was explored. Today, from its West London site in Chelsea, it is still renowned for its respiratory work but throughout the second part of the 20th century, and into the...

The sixth London Trauma Conference was held at the Royal Geographical Society in London between 4 and 7 December. More than 500 delegates and speakers from twenty countries gathered to hear about best practice and innovation in trauma care, pre-hospital care and major incident management. In addition the Norwegian Air Ambulance hosted a day devoted to air ambulance medicine and a parallel sympo...