Correspondence to: Dr John Peters, Consultant Physician, University Hospital of Wales, Heath Park, Cardiff CF4 4XW, Wales. e-mail: [email protected] We have recently undertaken a study of diabetic patients that examines the influence of sex on the probability of presenting with coronary heart disease (CHD) related events. This work has been presented in a preliminary form,' and contrasts with the ...

Dietary Intervention for Migraines and Mood Disorders Cass Nelson-Dooley, MS, is a clinical consultant at Metametrix Clinical Laboratory, Duluth, Georgia. Stephanie Kaplan, ND, is a naturopathic physician practicing at A Woman’s Time and Naturopathic Family Medicine, Portland, Oregon. J. Alexander Bralley, PhD, is chief executive offi cer and founder of Metametrix Clinical Laboratory. (Altern T...

" Y. Kalairajah, MA, MPhil, FRCS(Tr & Orth), Orthopaedic Arthroplasty and Sports Surgery Fellow " D. Simpson, FRCS(Tr & Orth), Orthopaedic Arthroplasty and Sports Surgery Fellow " A. J. Cossey, FRCS(Tr & Orth), Orthopaedic Arthroplasty and Sports Surgery Fellow " G. M. Verrall, MBBS, Sports Physician " A. J. Spriggins, MS, FRCS, FRACS, FAOrthA, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Sportsmed SA, 32 Pa...

Mutism in the Older Adult Nages Nagaratnam, MD, FRCP, FRACP, FRCPA, FACC, Consultant Physician, Geriatric Medicine, formerly Blacktown-Mount Druitt Health, Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia. Gowrie Pavan, MBBS, FRAGP, General Practitioner,The Surgery, Plympton Road, Beecroft, New South Wales, Australia. NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS

On his return from U.S.A. he was appointed pathologist to Birmingham Children's Hospital where he quickly established himself as a popular teacher and became very knowledgeable on medico-legal problemsSubsequent appointments as Honorary Physician in Birmingham to the General Hospital and the Children's Hospital enabled him to practise as a general Consultant Physician for adults and children wi...

‘‘O ver the past few years there has been a growing realisation that there is a need for a senior medical presence in Medical Assessment and Admission units (MAUs). This has been manifest by the large number of appointments that have been made to MAUs at Consultant and other levels’’. A significant point in the development of acute medicine was marked on 3 July 2003. It was the day when the Spe...

Intervention: Coordinated care consisting of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) plus medication or usual care. CBT consisted of six sessions plus six follow up telephone booster sessions and a patient education video and workbook. A behavioural health specialist delivered CBT and was involved in coordinated care by communicating with both primary care physicians and consultant psychiatrists as...

There are about 270 physicians with a special interest in gastroenterology distributed throughout the United Kingdom; most of them (91%) are members of the British Society of Gastroenterology. Two-thirds of these physicians regard their post as that of general physician with a special interest in gastroenterology and a quarter as general physician. Very few physicians (nine) practise gastroente...