Therapeutic strategies in dystonia have evolved considerably in the past few decades. Three major treatment modalities include oral medications, botulinum toxin injections and surgical therapies, particularly deep brain stimulation. Although there has been a tremendous interest in the later two modalities, there are relatively few recent reviews of oral treatment. We review the medical treatmen...

Endometriosis is a common, benign and chronic gynecological disorder. It is also an estrogen-dependent disorder that can result in substantial morbidity, including pelvic pain, pro gressive dysmenorrhea, dyspareunia, infertility and repeat surgeries. Endometriosis is often treated surgically upon diag nosis but with a higher rate of recurrence, suggesting that a combination of surgical and medi...

REVIEWS MODERN MEDICAL TREATMENT. By E. Bellingham-Smith, M.D., F.R.C.P., and Anthony Feiling, M.D., F.R.C.P. London: Cassell & Co., Ltd., 1931. Vol. I, pp. 701; vol. II, pp. 705. 30s. net the two volumes. THE appearance of two fair-sized volumes of a work on Modern Medical Treatment reminds us of the rapid development of this subject in recent years. No longer do we confine treatment to good f...

Hypercalcaemia results from the failure of renal calcium excretion to compensate increased influx of calcium into the circulation from the intestine, the kidneys and the skeleton. Hypercalcaemia is a common metabolic abnormality of varying severity that can be adequately diagnosed and treated. Primary hyperparathyroidism and malignant neoplasms are responsible for >90% of all cases. The managem...

It must to keep in mind that those common administrated drugs couldn’t help to restore the fertility potentials and in fact during their usage pregnancy cannot or should not be happened, regarding to inhibition of ovulation or teratogenic effects; of course by their administration with remission of disease (suppress the growth and activity of previous endometriotic implants) and reducing the ch...

Books on medical treatment are of two kinds; one is a dictionary in which the different methods of treating specific diseases are enumerated and which are little more than a collection of prescriptions: the other is a treatise on various morbid conditions, in which the subject of treatment is given a prominent place, but in which there is sufficient reference to aetiology and diagnosis to make ...

THE latest edition of this very valuable book contains much up-to-date information. But although it has been kept rigidly to size it is still a heavy book and I doubt whether many students read it from cover to cover before they qualify. By the time they have qualified a lot of the details of treatment will be out of date (indeed in some instances this is already true). This raises the problem ...