WASHINGTON IA'I President Nixon said Thur day night 'l11ieu regime forces have demonstrated they "can hack it " against the anti· government force , and that insures the continuing withdrawal of American forces from Southeast Asia. The President told a While House news conference carried live via radio and television that assessment of Thieu regime fighting ability came from Gen. Creighton Abra...

As a result of the durability problems associated with the first Abrams-Lucas mitral valve, a redesigned model has recently been introduced into limited clinical trials. The new valve was subjected to in-vitro pulsatile flow studies, and measurements were made of mean diastolic pressure gradient and volume of reflux on closure. Similar measurements were made on other mitral valve prostheses of ...

In recent years, electroconvulsive therapy (ECU has increasingly been reserved for moderate to severe depressions that have often been resistant to drug therapy or have had favorable response to ECT in the past. This selection process may modify the usefulness of clinical “predictors” of treatment outcome (Hobson 1953; Roberts 1959; Hamilton and White 1960; Ottosson 1962; Hordem et al. 1963; Ny...

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Members of the writing group for the International Network for Strategic Initiatives in Global HIV Trials (INSIGHT)– Evaluation of Subcutaneous Proleukin in a Randomized International Trial (ESPRIT) Study Group and the Subcutaneous Recombinant, Human Interleukin-2 in HIV-Infected Patients with Low CD4+ Counts under Active Antiretroviral Therapy (SILCAAT) Scientific Committee (D. Abrams, M.D. [c...

Around 1.5% of adults in Europe and the USA have urge urinary incontinence (involuntary leakage immediately preceded or accompanied by urgency) (Abrams 2003; Irwin 2006). This is usually due to overactive bladder syndrome (defined as urgency, with or without urge incontinence, and usually with frequency and nocturia) (Abrams 2003). The symptoms of an overactive bladder are thought to be due to ...

We sincerely appreciate the studies performed about mobilization in extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) patients [1]. An increasing number of studies can be seen recently in this very challenging group of patients. Mobilizing an ECMO patient is a complicated task to due to surrounding equipment and the nature of cannulations [2,3]. Regarding postoperative mobilization, the most comfortab...

Michelle Aldrich (left) As VAlerie corrAl of WAMM writes out a dosing regimen for using cannabis oil as a treatment for lung cancer. Aldrich’s remarkable first-person story starts on page 18. continued on page 15 By Fred Gardner Increasing numbers of people have been using Cannabis “oil” —plant extracts consisting of 50% or more THC and/ or CBD— to treat conditions ranging from mild rashes to p...

   18F-FDG is the most commonly used radioisotope in PET scanning and is administered intravenously. When patients cannot cannulated, there are limited options available for functional tumour assessment. A fifty year old male presented for investigation of a suspected lung carcinoma identified during investigation of pneumonia. The patient had a severe needle phobia, intellectual dis...