obese. Applying an understanding of nutritional and evolutionary theory to the modern human nutritional dilemma has turned out to be very enlightening indeed. Who have been your most important mentors? Two people have had the greatest impact on my career. The fi rst was the late Reg Chapman as my PhD supervisor. Reg and his wife Liz Bernays were inspiring, selfl ess and incredibly tolerant. I c...

PROF. TOMÁŠEK’S LIFE O. Zahradníček, V. Woznicová (Institute of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, and St. Anne’s Faculty Hospital, Brno, Czech Republic): Some moments of Prof. Tomášek’s life – Part 1. Prof. Václav Tomášek, the long-time head of the Institute of Microbiology of the Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University and the Faculty Hospital, Brno, was an admirable perso...

The history of cardiac surgery is associated with great surgeons, and their contributions are usually recognized by having their names attached to the innovation. Such is the case for many instruments (DeBakey forceps, Cosgrove retractor, and others), sutures (Lima suture for off-pump coronary artery bypass, Dubost suture for left ventricular aneurysm), and operations (Rastelli, Mustard, Batist...

A woman was first seen several months after her husband had died following cardiac transplantation. She had gone into mourning and cried freely at the time, but was indignant about the failure of the surgery. She felt her husband should not have chosen surgery knowing that there was a chance he would not survive and would leave her widowed; she had cared for him 'devotedly' during his nine-year...

By Loch Long, a couple of hours’ cycle ride from Glasgow, the wind was biting, the sun was shining, and the nuclear weapons were just across the water. I went to my first protest at Faslane when I was a medical student in the late 1980s. The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament was a visible protest group then, rather than a symbol seen on T shirts sold to fashionable people with no allegiance to t...

to 1842 in order to produce this comprehensive account of medical aspects of the early U.S. Navy. His principal sources are those familiar to any historian of a government bureaucracy-official correspondence regarding complaints, accusations, petitions for promotion, ship inventories, and pension allotments. Private letters, diaries, and trial reports supplement this rich trove of detail, and p...

It was with disappointment that I read the review of mammographic screening by Lee and Peters in Volume 60, Issue 1 of the Journal of Medical Radiation Sciences. The article clearly demonstrated bias which is inherent when staff of a program reviews the efficacy of their own program, resulting in findings incongruent with those found by those without vested interests. Lee and Peters reported th...

BACKGROUND Data from traditionally circumcising communities show that non-circumcised males and those circumcised in the medical settings are stigmatised. This is because traditional circumcision embodies local notions of bravery as anaesthetics are not used. This study was conducted to assess the acceptability of safe medical circumcision before the onset of sexual activity for HIV infection r...

Friends of Grover Powers. The late Daniel Darrow, a long-time and dis. tinguished member of your faculty, in 1946, on dedicating his first 76 sci. entific papers in a bound volume to Grover Powers, inscribed it as follows: "To Grover F. Powers, whose faith in people made this work possible." Faith in people is perhaps the best way to characterize Grover Powers' basic attitude in life and this f...

Background: Chronic pancreatitis caused by common bile duct segment stenosis is a common complication. It often results in near side bile duct expansion, bile drain disorder, appearing serious obstructive jaundice, biliary cirrhosis, lifethreatening. However, chronic pancreatitis causes not bravery manager narrow some light, some heavy, and the clinical manifestation is different too. We think ...