Lord Mountbatten's last supper to public health's last rites – The trajectory of medicine

The Last Rites of Public Campaign Financing?

Last Supper for Mosquitoes

Cis-Diamminedichloroplatinum II (CDDP) has been recognized as one of the most active drugs against malignant tumours including ovarian cancer. However, CDDP is a toxic drug causing emesis, renal failure, hearing loss, neuropathy and anaemia. In view of these toxicities many investigators have attempted to develop new platinum analogues which retain anti-tumour activity with less toxicity. Among...

Lasting rights and last rites: a case report.

The contrast between legal and clinical perceptions of reality, characterized as discrete versus continuous in nature, generates dilemmas for both professions. Individuals in conflict with either system are especially vulnerable to the philosophical serrations at the interface between psychiatry and the law. A case example, which serves to magnify the gripping impact of these diverse and powerf...

The last C: centred in family medicine.

The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) has endorsed the recommendation from the Section of Teachers’ Working Group on Postgraduate Curriculum Review that residency training programs develop and implement a competency-based curriculum that is • comprehensive, • focused on continuity of education and patient care, and • centred in family medicine. Together, these recommendations form t...

“Last supper with mushroom soup”: a case report of amatoxin poisoning

INTRODUCTION Unlike Europeans’ pastime of mushroom hunting or lactovegetarian's craze for "organic " food (1), in Himalayan developing nations like Nepal, either poor man's delicacy or hunger, often drives people living in hills to forage for wild mushrooms. In Nepal, unnumbered and medically unpublished small epidemics of mushroom poisoning take a heavy death toll annually. The present case de...