Loma Linda Global Surgery Elective: First 1,000 Cases

Training public health professionals in Africa: Loma Linda University approach.

The health challenges facing the African continent are enormous and sometimes look insurmountable. The continent is plagued by an array of preventable and communicable causes of morbidity and mortality. Malaria, measles, pneumonia, undernutrition, and diarrheal diseases are major child killers. Tuberculosis and HIV/ AIDS are huge and growing challenges, especially within the adult population (1...

The "Loma Linda stent": a screw-retained resin stent.

This article describes a technique in which an acellular dermal allograft is used in combination with a photopolymerized acrylic resin stent to increase the zone of keratinized tissue around osseointegrated dental implants. During the second-stage surgery, a split thickness labial flap is reflected and apically repositioned by being sutured onto the periosteum and connective tissue. The acellul...

CHAPTER 4 LOMA LINDA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Clinical proton therapy at Loma Linda University Medical Center

Global synchronisation in Linda

This paper examines the \Distributed Summation" problem, and its solution in Linda. A number of problems with the current set of primitives are examined, and a new primitive , collect, is proposed.