Dr Cairns said he had seen the placenta loaded with fat, and the child nevertheless healthy; whereas, in other cases, the afterbirth was apparently free from disease, and the child was still-born. He had never found much benefit from the chlorate of potass. He mentioned a case in which much good resulted from a mercurial course to both father and mother, and he was of opinion that blue pill was...

Simeon P. Cairns, Eva R. Chin, and Jean-Marc Renaud Institute of Sport and Recreation Research New Zealand, Faculty of Health and Environmental Science, Auckland University of Technology, and Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand; Department of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Diseases, Pfizer Global Research and Development, Groton, Connecticut...

An exploration of future trends in environmental education research Nicole M. Ardoin a , Charlotte Clark b & Elin Kelsey c d a School of Education & Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University, 485 Lasuen Mall, Stanford, CA, 94305, USA b Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, P.O. Box 90227, Durham, NC, 27708, USA c School of Sustainability, Royal Roads University, Vi...

Joanneum Research, Instituto de Pesquisa Ambiental de Amazonia (IPAM), Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), and The Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC) welcome this opportunity to submit ideas to the II Workshop on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation to be held in Cairns, Australia (7-9 March 2007). This submission adds detail, some new policy approaches and data on tropical deforestation to th...

This short paper describes an experiment in the use of clinical pathways for orthopaedic patients at Cairns Base Hospital. We rapidly found they improved the management of cost and quality, and that there were many beneficial side-effects. Our approach was subsequently adopted in other departments. Unfortunately, external support for further developments has not been forthcoming and we argue th...

Authors’ addresses: 1 Deviot Institute, Deviot, Tasmania 7275, Australia. 2 School of Human Life Sciences, University of Tasmania, Locked Bag 1320, Launceston, Tasmania 7250, Australia. 3 University Kuala Lumpur, Royal College of Medicine Perak, 3 Greentown Road, 30450 Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. 4 Institute of Food, Nutrition and Human Health, Massey University, Private Bag 11222, Palmerston North,...

T hree children died in August 2012 after receiving usual doses of codeine for postoperative pain following a tonsillectomy and/or adenoidectomy (U.S. Food and Drug Administration [FDA], 2013a). Those incidents, combined with a case report of a breast-feeding infant who died in 2005 of an apparent overdose after the mother received a standard dose of codeine for episiotomy pain (Health Sciences...