John Shaw Billings

Selected papers of John Shaw Billings

The General Infirmary at Leeds: Vol II-The Second Hundred Years, (1869-1965), by S. T. ANNING, Edinburgh and London, E. & S. Livingstone, 1966, pp. xii, 188, illus., 42s. This volume appears, as was hoped, in good time for the Infirmary's bicentenary in 1967. During the period covered, the institution has been on its present site, though the latter has naturally been much enlarged, and the buil...

Dr. John Shaw Billings: the surgeon general's librarian a historical vignette.

A Tribute to Dr. Diane Billings.

I mid-August, the 2015 selection of the American Academy of Nursing’s Living Legends was announced. Living Legend (or “LLs,” as some like to call themselves) is probably the highest distinction a nurse can attain. Being inducted into the American Academy of Nursing is a challenge in itself. One has to have made consistent and distinctive contributions to the profession to become a Fellow. There...

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Three decades of basic cancer research have revealed that mutations in components of signalling pathways that control cell growth in primitive metazoans underlie tumour initiation in mammals. The Ras, PI(3)K and mTOR (mammalian target of rapamycin) signalling pathways form an intersecting biochemical network that, when mutated, drives cell growth in a manner unrestricted by environmental cues. ...

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