CONTEXT Both acute and chronic pancreatitis are associated with eating disorders, including malnutrition found in anorexia, bulimia, and major depression. CASE REPORT We report a case of a female patient suffering from severe malnutrition and anorexia with repeated attacks of pancreatic pain and an enlarging cystic lesion in the pancreatic head. Due to a progressively enlarging lesion on CT, ...

Médecins Sans Frontières has just released its ninth annual list, for 2006, of the top ten under-reported humanitarian stories. Eight of the ten arose from confl ict situations, but two are of more direct clinical relevance: malnutrition and tuberculosis. The three-part Lancet series on child development in developing countries, which ends today, has much to say about malnutrition, and its sist...