“I’ve been coming to these meetings since the mid-’90s, and I’ve a medical director for 23 years. This past year is unlike any we’ve ever experienced,” said Karl Steinberg, MD, CMD, HMDC, 2021–2022 president of AMDA – The Society Post-Acute Long-Term Care Medicine, at start second general session Society’s virtual Annual Conference. public policy update always popular program, but there no doub...

Previous studies of spatial contrast sensitivity in adulthood have produced conflicting results. To clarify the situation, we measured contrast sensitivity functions on a large sample of adults (n = 91), ranging in age from 19 to 87. All observers were free from significant ocular pathology and were individually refracted for the test distance. Sensitivity for stationary gratings of low spatial...

1 Laboratory of Skin Bioengineering and Imaging (LABIC), Department of Clinical Sciences, Liège University, 4000 Liège, Belgium 2Department of Clinical Toxicology, University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium 3Department of Pathology, Unilab Lg, University Hospital of Liège, 4000 Liège, Belgium 4Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Saint-Jacques, 25030 Besançon, France 5 Inserm U...

y The cases hereafter detailed are taken from the case-books of the 1-14 P. W. O. Regiment, and present several features of interest. It is remarkable that they are the two last cases that occurred in the regiment, and that though alike in the absence of diarrhoea, one was treated in the plains, and the second in the hills. In neither case was there any evidence of impure water having been drun...

I the article “Predetermined embryonic glial cells form the distinct glial sheaths of the Drosophila peripheral nervous system” we combined our expertise to identify glial cells of the embryonic peripheral nervous system on a single cell resolution with the possibility to genetically label cells using Flybow. We show that all 12 embryonic peripheral glial cells (ePG) per abdominal hemisegment p...