It is common for children to swallow small objects and these usually pass harmlessly through the gastrointestinal tract. Coins and bones are the most commonly ingested. Complications are rare, for example, in this case report of a young boy who swallowed a hair pin. The boy had pain on his ...
functioning was unaffected and the MRI scan did not show example, Ludwig’s oangina. any orbital involvement. The abscess was drained through They can enter the masticatory a temporal incision, with excellent clinical and laboratory space,2 but rarely invade tissue superior to this, as in this ...
To report a case of sporadic Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) with bilateral hearing loss at onset and literature review of the scarce cases of CJD with similar audiologic manifestations at presentation.A 67-yr-old man presented to the hospital for evaluation of rapid progression of behavioral decli...
One gratifying feature of the first meeting was that our committee endorsed broad approaches—for example, about consulting authors over ethical worries and consent—that BMJ editors had already adopted.The ethics committee's business will be as transparent as possible. The manuscripts under discussion...
One gratifying feature of the first meeting was that our committee endorsed broad approaches鈥攆or example, about consulting authors over ethical worries and consent鈥攖hat BMJ editors had already adopted. The ethics committee's business will be as transparent as possible. The manuscripts under ...
signals from published case reports are not systematically incorporated into commonly used drug information sources. For example, a ‘Lesson of the week’ BMJ publication had reported on a series of cases where adverse reactions were encountered by using higher doses of colchicine in acute ...
Wakefield relied on what he called a series of “impending” papers. “A variety of topics were discussed in the meeting with reference to the forthcoming publication of the paper in Nature (date to be confirmed),” said a confidential Carmel “communications programme,” for example, passed to...
BackgroundIron-deficiency anaemia disproportionately affects children in low-income and middle-income areas; Western China is a prime example. Given the health risks associated with childhood anaemia and the large heterogeneity of published studies on this subject, we conducted a systematic review of th...
Professor David Candy, paediatric gastroenterologist at St Richard’s Hospital, Chichester, who reviewed the paper in 1997, said “no”: he wouldn’t have felt comfortable. “That’s an example of really naughty doing – to exclude the original pathology findings.” ...
These 28 million nurses translate to a global nurse density of 36.9 per 10 000 population. This figure masks vast disparities in the distribution of nurses around the world. For example, there are 10 times more nurses per 10 000 population in the Americas than in the African region (83....