Has anything really changed? A critical view of hospice progress

Post-Romanow, post-Kirby; has anything changed?

After more than a decade, has pet guardianship changed anything?

Patterns of scald injuries in children--has anything changed?

The objective was to study presentation patterns of scald injuries in children and suggest potential countermeasures to reduce these injuries. We retrospectively studied scald injuries in children attending an urban paediatric emergency department between January 1st and December 31st 2008. Data was extracted from our emergency department database using search terms 'burn', 'scald', 'other burn...

Support for childlessness: has anything changed between 2008 and 2015?

To cite: Quilliam S. J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2015;41:306–308. BACKGROUND 2015 has seen a 65-year-old German mother with 13 children expecting quadruplets, a media storm over the testing of new reproductive techniques on actual human pregnancies, and the autobiography of the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown. In such a year, it seems pertinent for the Consumer Correspondent column to exp...

WPW pattern in the asymptomatic individual: has anything changed?

The patient with the Wolff-Parkinson-White (WPW) ECG pattern has much in common with patients with other entities, such as long-QT syndrome and Brugada syndrome, which are associated with an identifying abnormality on ECG. All are relatively benign in the majority of afflicted individuals but nonetheless carry a risk of unexpected sudden death, which begs for some attempt at risk management. Th...