Information sharing is a crucial precondition for the development of a thriving credit market and for the access to finance by firms. The focus of this paper is the regulation of the exchange of information on firms as intermediated by credit registries. The paper presents different kinds of indices to test their explanatory power for information distribution for a panel of 90 countries. In a s...

BACKGROUND This report describes carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning in two workers using a hired forklift truck within a coldstore. The diagnosis was not considered until day 6 of the incident, and so measurements of blood or breath CO at the time of acute illness were unavailable. AIMS To determine whether CO poisoning may be diagnosed retrospectively, where blood or breath CO measurements are u...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Kennedy disease is a rare X-linked neurodegenerative disorder caused by a CAG repeat expansion in the first exon of the androgen-receptor gene. Apart from neurologic signs, this mutation can cause a partial androgen insensitivity syndrome with typical alterations of gonadotropic hormones produced by the pituitary gland. The aim of the present study was therefore to evalua...