New-style cold abscesses.

On Cold Abscesses after Malaria

New treatment for abscesses?

Professor Salahuddien Dawjee has four degrees in Dentistry and has recently submitted a draft of his PhD thesis for evaluation. His contributions to Orthodontics include techniques and appliances to treat patients with dento-facial disharmonies as well as a feeding aid for cleft palate babies. He has published numerous scientific articles in local and orthodontic journals as well as a chapter i...

Staphylococcal pyaemia with pulmonary and cold subcutaneous abscesses.

Staphylococcal pyaemia not infrequently complicates staphylococcal lesions, and it is not rare for it to give rise to metastatic abscesses in the lungs and subcutaneous tissues. The following case is considered worth recording, because the patient, a child of just under three years, presented with multiple cold subcutaneous abscesses apparently arising de novo, and unaccompanied by severe syste...

New style, same substance

Substance has always been paramount at The Rockefeller University Press, but that doesn’t mean we can’t also have style. We are thus delighted to unveil a new design for the websites of our three journals, The Journal of Cell Biology, The Journal of Experimental Medicine, and The Journal of General Physiology, and for the Press itself. The sites have an updated look and contain innovative funct...

Emotional style and susceptibility to the common cold.

OBJECTIVE It has been hypothesized that people who typically report experiencing negative emotions are at greater risk for disease and those who typically report positive emotions are at less risk. We tested these hypotheses for host resistance to the common cold. METHODS Three hundred thirty-four healthy volunteers aged 18 to 54 years were assessed for their tendency to experience positive e...