M. P. W. Grocott 1,2,3* and R. M. Pearse 4 1 Surgical Outcomes Research Centre (SOuRCe), Joint UCLH/UCL Comprehensive Biomedical Research Centre, London, UK 2 General Intensive Care Unit, Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust, Southampton, UK 3 NIAA Health Services Research Centre, Royal College of Anaesthetists, London, UK 4 Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mar...

Genetic counselors and Genomic Counseling in the United Kingdom Anna Middleton, Georgina Hall & Christine Patch Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Cambridge, United Kingdom Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester Academic Health Sciences Centre (MAHSC), St. Mary’s Hospital, Manchester, United Kingdom Guys and St Thomas’ NHS ...

^HE four voluntary hospitals of Sheffield?the Royal Hospital, Royal Infirmary, Jessop Hospital for Women and Children's Hospital have joined forces (with the Edgar Allen Institute in the combination) to form a Hospitals Contributing Scheme. The project does not greatly differ from other schemes elsewhere, but it seeks incidentally to make uniform all Sheffield systems of workmen's contributions...

Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) is a rare illness in eastern Canada. We present three cases of HPS among military personnel in Quebec. The three cases shared a common exposure to mouse excreta while engaged in military training in Alberta, a western province of Canada.

a number of ex officio members, who constitute the Hospital Saturday Committee. The aim of this committee is to obtain and maintain regular weekly contributions from every working man and woman in the district. When one realises that the " working classes" comprise the greater portion of the populace, it is readily seen that the achievement of the aforementioned aim would go far to solve the pr...

The practice is a two-man training practice with a list of approximately 4,000, mainly in social classes III, IV and V. Over the past five years, 10 trainees have been attached to the practice, each for a period of six months. Three of the trainees have been women. Two hundred and fifty-eight patients who visited the surgery in a two-week period were asked by the receptionist to complete a ques...

Mental practice (MP) has been shown to improve movement accuracy and velocity, but it is not known whether MP can also optimize movement timing. We addressed this question by studying two groups of expert pianists who performed challenging music sequences after either MP or physical practice (PP). Performance and motion-capture data were collected along with responses to imagery questionnaires....