On the cover: Recent events have sharpened thinking and discourse related to racially based inequities that permeate not only society but also medicine and, in turn, transplantation. In this issue, Reese colleagues (page 958) focus our attention on unequal access preemptive kidney transplantation, or transplantation prior dialysis initiation, a highly advantageous practice yields both survival ...

Standardised image databases or rather the lack of them are one of the main weaknesses in the field of content based image retrieval (CBIR). Authors often use their own images or do not specify the source of their datasets. Naturally this makes comparison of results somewhat difficult. While a first approach towards a common colour image set has been taken by the MPEG 7 committee their database...

Levy, Stuart B. (Institut du Radium, Paris, France). Isologous interference with ultraviolet and X-ray irradiated bacteriophage T(2). J. Bacteriol. 87:1330-1338. 1964.-Qualitative and quantitative analysis of the interference capacity of an irradiated T(2) bacteriophage was made with ultraviolet and X-ray irradiation. Two different effects were found to explain the total interference picture in...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of primary colposcopy in the genitourinary medicine setting by comparing the cervical cytology and punch biopsy results for women identified as having an abnormal cervical transformation zone. METHOD A retrospective audit of six years' findings in primary colposcopy was carried out. The punch biopsy findings of 1338 women were compared with their last c...

Pain management after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) remains among the most important challenges for patients with TKA. Intra-articular local anesthetic has been shown to reduce postoperative pain following TKA. However, studies report conflicting results. This meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy and safety of single-dose intra-articular local anesthetics for pain control after TKA. Databases (...

BACKGROUND It is important to know the impact of Very Preterm (VP) birth or Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW). The purpose of this study is to evaluate changes in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of adults born VP or with a VLBW, between age 19 and age 28. METHODS The 1983 nationwide Dutch Project On Preterm and Small for gestational age infants (POPS) cohort of 1338 VP (gestational age <32 ...