unfortunately, last winter, we lost one of the leaders of radiotherpy-oncology in iran, professor mohammad hossein salehi. he was an excellent teacher, a supportive friend and an experienced physician.professor salehi was born on april 21, 1941 in shirvan. after graduating from high school, he continued his education in mashhad medical school. in 1968 he completed medical school and began the r...

Problems arising from the evacuation of children have lately been discussed at length. This paper deals with a similar subject, an evacuation problem on the largest scale. Evacuation of schoolchildren means more than the separation of children from their parents and home environment for an indefinite time; it means also the abandonment of many factors which have been regarded as essential for t...

of the popular press, and the laconic voice of Reitman. While the study is in many respects-thorough and detailed, it also leaves us with unanswered questions. The Chicago programme was part of a national initiative; yet, although we might be expected to know something of Parran's five-point plan, we are given no clear analysis of the relationship of the local programme to federal aims. The sto...

although england and the united states are both common law states and their legal systems follow the same rules, each has disregarded certain rules and changed them to suit specific circumstances. for instance, they have both disregarded the common law rule on the insertion of exemption conditions by carriers. regarding carrier’s liability towards passengers, the united states accepts the highe...

Efforts to achieve effective and meaningful patient and public involvement (PPI) in healthcare have existed for nearly a century, albeit with limited success. This brief commentary discusses a recent paper by Carter and Martin exploring the “Challenges Facing Healthwatch, a New Consumer Champion in England,” and places these challenges in the context of the broader struggle to give a voice to h...