In recent years the scientific community has shown renewed interest in DISH. The article by Yaniv et al. [1] in this issue of Rheumatology describes the natural evolution of DISH, providing important new insights into this condition. The article presents a study that used CT, a highly sensitive three-dimensional imaging modality for assessing new bone formation, to identify DISH patients and ex...

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KENNETH DEWHURST (1919-84) Dr Kenneth E. Dewhurst, TD, DPhil, MD, FRCPsych, the psychiatrist and distinguished historian of medicine, died suddenly on 10 December 1984. He was a Lancastrian by birth and served in the Army throughout the second world war, surviving the evacuation from Europe in 1940 and Far East campaigns. Thereafter, he studied medicine in Dublin and after qualifying in 1952 he...

Department of Molecular Genetics, Biochemistry and Microbiology, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH 45267, USA, Graduate Center for Toxicology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40536, USA, Department of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington DC 20052, USA, American Quest Laboratories, Inc., Chantill...

BACKGROUND Understanding the risk of mortality during the 1918-1919 influenza pandemic could inform preparations for a future pandemic. METHODS Prospectively collected demographic, hospitalization, and death data from all individuals who served in the Australian Imperial Force from 1914 through 1919 in Europe and the Middle East were abstracted from archived records. Analyses were conducted t...

Juan M. Taveras, MD, Professor Emeritus at the Harvard Medical School and Radiologist-in-Chief Emeritus of the Massachusetts General Hospital, died in his native Dominican Republic on March 28, 2002. His death marks the passing of a dominant force in the establishment and advancement of the specialty of neuroradiology. His landmark innovations in training, investigation, radiologic administrati...

On May 8 2001, Jaap Seidel passed away. This volume of the European Journal of Combinatorics is dedicated to his memory. Jaap Seidel loved Mathematics. He wanted to learn it, to understand it, and most of all to teach it. In his courses and personal contacts he was very inspiring. Many mathematicians, especially young ones, were influenced by Jaap. Besides being a teacher, he was also very inte...