Madrid et Valence

Terrorist bombings in Madrid

The report by Peral Guiterrez de Ceballos and colleagues [1] is a timely, well written, and informative contribution to our growing body of knowledge of disaster medicine, as well as an appalling confirmation of the horrors of the senseless and vicious scourge of terrorism that now afflicts the world. Their comprehensive analysis of the results of medical management of 312 survivors triaged to ...

Golden Rule or valence matching? Methodological problems in Hamlin et al.

‘Generalistas’: the GPs of Madrid

The Hippokrates exchange was an eye-opening experience for me, enabling me to get a unique insight of primary care in another country.1 It really broadened my experiences, and taught me practical and new ideas to bring home. Colleagues I have spoken to about the scheme since returning have been inspired to participate. I hope my article will increase awareness and encourage others to get involv...

th Meeting of the Cold Atoms Madrid

Emilio Alba (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Measuring topology in complex systems: trudging through entanglement and interactions : In previous works we showed how the topology of a Chern insulator can be measured using time-of-flight imaging in an optical lattice. We dive deeper by defining this measure as a new order parameter and analyzing its role when more degrees of freedom and intera...

Female Injecting Drug Users in Madrid, Spain

A cross-sectional study was performed to explore the behaviour of female intravenous drug users (lOUs) in Madrid, Spain, to determine the relationships between behaviour and a number of dependent variables. We considered: l.Sociodemographic characteristics Drug-taking behaviour, sexual behavior (including prostitution), reproductive health, and utilisation of services targeted at female IDUs. 2...