While many organisations are gearing up to celebrate the double evolution anniversary next year — 150 years since the first publication of Charles Darwin's Origin of Species and 200 years since his birth — an event of major significance has its 150 anniversary this year but is set to receive little public celebration. By 1858 Darwin was well-established in his home at Down House in Kent and dee...

A 25-year-old man presented with abdominal pain. The patient was in his usual state of health until three months prior to admission, when diffuse abdominal pain developed, most severe in the epigastria. He reported a sharp, constant pain usually unrelated to eating. Upper endoscopy was performed several times and revealed no significant finding. Abdominal pain was progressive and fever, night s...

Funduscopy is an integral part of the physical examination, especially in older patients in whom visual problems and systemic diseases affecting the fundi (e.g., diabetes mellitus) are more common. We have assessed the views of hospital doctors to funduscopy via a questionnaire survey, reviewed the case notes to see whether or not funduscopy is carried out on older patients, and assessed the vi...

The placebo effect is seen in patients who have been the target of intervention believed to lack specific action. This effect seems to be an important, and possibly the only, contribution to the positive effect of alternative medicine sometimes reported. The risks involved in the uncritical utilization of the placebo effect are, however, great and must be carefully considered. Most of the infor...

here did Mr. B. go? I've been watching him watch me for the last 4 hours and now that it's finally his turn to be seen he's gone. The least these people could do is tell someone before they leave. But I waited for 8 hours and you never came to see me. First of all — you only waited 7 hours. Don't exaggerate. Second — I was busy seeing other patients. I was saving lives! Yeah, right! I could see...

Relapsing fever is a group of conditions that is characterized by recurrent febrile episodes interspaced with periods of no symptoms at all. They are arthropod-borne spirochetal infections of the Borrellia genus and occur in two main forms: tick-borne and louse-borne. Tick-borne relapsing fever is a zoonosis that is found worldwide. The louse-borne relapsing fever is caused by B. recurrentis, a...

As previous research has shown, items not recalled on an initial memory task are not simply forgotten. Often, some can be recalled on a later, second task. Further, subjects can generally predict, in terms of feeling-of-knowing (FOK) ratings, which items will be subsequently recalled. Two experiments were carried out to assess both second-task performance and FOK accuracy for unrecalled items a...

Contemporary Chinese rights of personality law are in a period perfection. The Personal Rights section the Civil Code provides ideological basis for other legislation on China, and newly released Information Protection Law relevant provisions privacy issues involved personal information. related to China should respond needs people’s Internet era introduce laws some that have emerged with devel...