Fifteen hundred coronary angiograms have been performed by the staff of Harefield Hospital since 1970. Only 2 deaths have occurred in the last 1000 consecutive cases though there were 5 in the first 500 cases. This drop in the mortality is ascribed to careful attention to detail and better training of the operators. It is concluded that the Fudkin's method of coronary angiography in trained han...

During the presidential election of 2008, policy commentators and cultural critics alike had their hands full. The primary race between Barack Hussein Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin’s subsequent entry as the vice presidential candidate transformed identity and political discourse in ways we are still trying to comprehend. The primary race caught the Democratic Party and its ―b...

a good deal ahead of the older parts of the building. From the beginning of the Hospital, some sixty years ago, it has been in the hands of the Sisters of the Community of the Holy Bood, whose capacity has made it to-day one of the two big general hospitals of Middlesbrough and a recognised training school for nurses, with, including the new wards, 176 beds. The Sisters are helped in the manage...

pigmented once more. Banifex contains the washings of an emulsion of micro-organisms which have been collected from as many birds as possible in different areas and over a period of a few years. The emulsion from which the washings are made contains 1000 million micro-organisms per c.cm. Two injections made intra-muscularly on consecutive days give the best results. Once the nerves become invol...