occurring at a longer time of 51-90 seconds. Even more interesting, there was a small secondary peak at 111 + seconds. Analysis of the TTT in other subjects with various diseases suggests that the existence of a long lF1' may have some clinical significance. A highly significant correlation between plasma and leucocyte AA values was found and a significant relationship between TTT and leucocyte...

Medicine. By Leo W. Simmons fe? Harold G. Wolff. New York, 1954. Russell Sage Foundation. $3.50. 254 pp. Medical and public interest has formerly been focussed more on bacteriological and pharmacological advances and the result has been inevitably some neglect of the patient as a person; the pendulum is now swinging back and it is somewhat ironic that it has been necessary to invent a new term?...

This paper considers the antecedent events that led to the development of Yale's Institute of Human Relations, the program of interdisciplinary research and teaching established, and the principal protagonists, James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University, and Milton C. Winternitz, Dean of the School of Medicine, both of whom were committed to the concept that medicine is a social science.

Purpose Social media sites such as Facebook have become a popular way for students to interact, share, and communicate. Studies have found incidents of unprofessional social media use such as posting of protected information or inappropriate photos in both medical and pharmacy students, which has raised concern in healthcare educational settings. To our knowledge, there have been no studies inv...

In any field of enquiry, there is a need from time to time to take stock and to have a cool, objective look at what has been done: the methods used, the facts accumulated and appealed to, and the conclusions reached. That need is urgent with regard to research into general practice. Before 1939 general practice was a comparatively unexplored field. The pioneering work of Mackenzie and Pickles e...

Objectives: Our research seeks to examine the correlation between the presence of physical medicine and rehabilitation journals in social networks and the SJR impact factor. Methods: We carried out a correlation study. For the research, we took into account all physical medicine and rehabilitation journals included in the SCImago Journal Rank. The number of followers on Twitter, Facebook, YouT...

i Che social aspects of medicine have received much attention during ohe past few years, and as you will know the University of Oxford, helped by the generosity of the Nuffield Trustees, has recent y founded a Chair of Social Medicine. Social medicine is no new subject. What is new is the increasing realization of its p:eat importance to practitioners and students of all branches of medicine. I...