Continuing her evidence last week to the Tower Hamlets District Health Authority inquiry into her competence, Mrs Wendy Savage was closely questioned by the obstetrician members of the panel about her management of the AU case, in which the baby died eight days after birth. Professor Howie asked Mrs Savage whether she felt she was justified in using oxytocin to stimulate labour in view of the r...

Prolonged administration of sublethal doses of organophosphorus cholinesterase inhibitors results in adaptation to their toxicity. In order to investigate this phenomenon, we exposed rats to 0.2, 0.3 or 0.4 LD50 of tabun sc daily during four weeks. AChE activities in erythrocytes, diaphragm and brain were inhibited dose-dependently after days 7 and 14 of the study and started to recover thereaf...

Source of Compounds. DMBA was supplied by EGA-Chemie, Steinheim, Germany, and l,2,3,4-dibenzanthracene (1,2,3,4DBA) by Nutritional Biochemicals Co., Cleveland, Ohio. The labeled compounds thymidine-3H and uridine-3H were purchased from the Radiochemical Centre, Amersham, En gland. The cocarcinogenic compound Al was prepared by Dr. H. Bresch, Heidelberg, Germany. Mice. Four-week-old inbred male ...

The blood flukes of mammals (Digenea: Schistosomatidae) are among trematodes unique whose adult worms have separated sexes which are dissimilar in appearance. The developmental features, growth and organogenesis of Schistosoma mansoni were studied in Swiss Webster mice by a digital system for image analysis and confocal microscopy. Data so far obtained showed two phases with significative morph...

In a four-week double-blind trial of 62 patients with Parkinsonism 29 were treated withamantadine and 33 with a placebo. Modest but statistically significant improvement was observed in the first group, optimum benefit occurring after the first two weeks. Patients' reactions to the drug were favourable in 79%, and side effects were insignificant. Though amantadine appears to be a useful additiv...

Design/methods The data set was composed of 731 adult patients (578 females and 153 males) with idiopathic scoliosis and a mean age of 33 years (range 18-64 years, SD 14.68) who were treated with a four-week intensive course of scoliosis-specific physiotherapy (the ScolioGold method) between 2006 and 2013. All patients were asked to rate their QoL on their first day of treatment, at the end of ...

the aims of this study were to evaluate the treatment efficiency and effectiveness of vetiveria zizaniodesof two samples of unconventional water of golgohar mining and industrial company. the experimental samples were included mine wastewater and saline ground water. this research was conducted in a greenhouse at central water research laboratory of university of tehran. this experiment was des...