After five years of legislative tussling, California has passed a law, written by Assemblywoman Helen Thomson (a former psychiatric nurse), that purports to provide for court-ordered (involuntary) outpatient treatment for certain persons with mental illness. The law, which went into effect January 1, 2003, is alternatively titled Laura’s Law and The Assisted Outpatient Treatment Demonstration P...

Nitroxyl radicals (NRs), which are sometimes called "organic nitrogen oxides” exhibit a wide range of biological activities, e.g., hemodynamic effect, protection against ionizing radiation, suppression of oxidative stress in different types of pathology (Soule et al., 2007; Wilcox, 2010). Already in early studies of the simplest NRs, their antitumor activity was demonstrated on a model tumor, l...

Wilcox, Wesley C. (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia) and Harold S. Ginsberg. Effect of proflavine on the synthesis of adenovirus, type 5, and associated soluble antigens. J. Bacteriol. 84:526-533. 1962.-The synthesis of type 5 adenovirus in HeLa cells was suppressed to a considerable extent by low concentrations of proflavine, an acridine dye. In comparison, the processes leading to the...

Carsten Burstedde,1,2 Georg Stadler,1 Laura Alisic,3,4 Lucas C. Wilcox,1,5 Eh Tan,6,7 Michael Gurnis3 and Omar Ghattas1,8,9 1Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. E-mail: [email protected] 2Institut fur Numerische Simulation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Germany. E-mail: [email protected]....

The major breakthrough in molecular biology that permitted the “cutting and pasting” of DNA fragments was the discovery by Smith and Wilcox of a restriction enzyme (they called it endonuclease R) from Hemophilus influenzae (now called Haemophilus influenzae). These investigators reported the isolation of an enzyme that was capable of cleaving double-stranded native T7 phage DNA and other foreig...

Phytoestrogens are naturally occurring phytochemicals found in plants and plant products. These is structurally and functionally similar to 17b oestradiol or synthetic oestrogens. (Burton and Wells, 2002) Even a low dose phytoestrogen diet can induce developmental and maturational abnormalities in both laboratory animals and domestic livestock and can affect human health too. (Fredrick et al., ...

I thank the Committee on Safety of Medicines for permission to report these cases and the doctors who originally submitted the reports for providing further clinical details. I O'Brien WM, Bagbv GF. Rare adverse reactions to non-steroidal antiinflammatory drugs. J Rheumatol 1985;12:13-20. 2 Flint KC, Johnson NM. Pulmonary eosinophilia associated with naproxen therapy. 7 R Soc Med 1987;80:120-1....

7. Donoso LA, Edelberg KE, Merry man C, Naids R, and Kalsow C: S-antigen in the developing retina and pineal gland: A monoclonal antibody study. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 26: 561, 1985. 8. McFall RM, Sery TW, and Makadon M: Characterization of a new continuous cell line derived from a human retinoblastoma. Cancer Res 37:1003, 1977. 9. Reid TW, Albert DM, Rabson AS, Russell RP, Craft J, Chu EW, ...

The aim of this study was to evaluate differences in the effects of Qi therapy without touching or with touching on anxiety, mood, neurohormones, and cellular immune function. Twenty-four healthy male subjects were randomly assigned to either QTN (n = 12) or QTT (n = 12). They received Qi therapy (external Qigong) without touching (QTN) or with touching (QTT). Nonparametric statistical tests re...

Co-morbid obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and metabolic syndrome (MetS) has been a focus of research since the early 1990s. Whilst it is clear that central obesity is the common factor in the aetiology of both conditions, there is good evidence that OSA, independent of obesity, partly drives the development of MetS through exacerbation of its components (central obesity, hypertriglyceridaemia, h...