An 83-year-old man was transferred to our medical center with bilateral pneumothoraces. A biopsy of a nonhealing scalp lesion was done 4 weeks previously, and the specimen showed high-grade angiosarcoma. During the subsequent staging evaluation a week later, he was found to have asymptomatic bilateral pneumothoraces and multiple pulmonary cysts that were not metabolically active on 18 F-fluorod...

At Southern Utah University, Kourt Osborn, a transgender student, was denied a dorm room because of his gender identity. Born as a female, Osborn, who identifies as a male, applied to live in the male dorms. The University determined that Osborn could live in the men’s dormitory only with physician supervision of his hormone treatment, therapist acknowledgment of his Gender Identity Disorder, a...

Ingestion and inhalation of phosphine are 2 forms of toxicity and their clinical manifestation is extremely wide. A 22-year-old girl was admitted with complaints of nausea, vomiting and epigastric pain after eating lunch. She had a history of celiac disease. On arrival, she was alert and hemody...

In the mid seventies, Brigitte Rockstroh and myself studied avoidance learning in human subjects. We presumed that brain potentials might be a better predictor of resistance to extinction than, for example, autonomic responses. In one experiment, subjects could escape a highly aversive noise by pressing a button fast enough. As it happens in experimental laboratories, a loose connection in the ...

A previously healthy 12-year-old female was sent to the Emergency Department by her pediatrician for workup of severe suprapubic abdominal pain radiating to her lower back. She reported having waxing and waning pain for 1 month that had awoken her from sleep the previous evening. The patient denied nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, but reported mild urinary retention. Per history she was premenar...

the discourse of the :union: of the intellect and the intelligible is one of the important philosophical issues and porphyrius and aristotle can be mentioned as among the early advocates of it, which has been common among the peripatetics. however, kandī and fārābi can be mentioned among the early muslims who brought up the issue of the :union: of the intellect and the intelligible, but ibn sīn...

One of the most thrilling experiments in biology is to introduce a gene of one’s own design into a favorite animal and examine the effect in the transgenic progeny. Methods to construct, transform and monitor transgenes have been available to worm breeders since the pioneering work of Andy Fire and Craig Mello (Fire, 1986; Mello and Fire, 1995) and the introduction of green fluorescent protein ...

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The present study investigated the development of possibility-judgment strategies between the ages of 4 and 8. In Experiment 1, 48 children and 16 adults were asked whether a variety of extraordinary events could or could not occur in real life. Although children of all ages denied the possibility of events that adults also judged impossible, children frequently denied the possibility of events...