UK asbestos: Down and going out

Microbial Contamination of Staff’s Hand while Going out of Hospital

Abstract Background and Objective: Cross-transmission of microorganisms by the hands of health care workers is considered as a main transmission route of nosocomial infections. The aim of this study was to investigate the microbial contamination of health-care worker’s hands while going out of hospital. Material and Methods: Wearing the sterile glove with liquid culture, we obtained 100 Sam...

Going down first class.

should be able to go straight into general practice: he will certainly be medically well educated for this. Nevertheless, the goodwill of local doctors would be of paramount importance if he is to be successful, and this seems unlikely in the present competitive society. At this stage, therefore, I would counsel caution to those British graduates who might consider emigration to France. On the ...

Down but not out

By his mid-forties, Darwin had established his scientific reputation, was married with a young family and had built on the solid connections that came with his and his wife's well-known middle class families. 'He was one of the kindest and truest men that it was ever my good fortune to know,' said his influential scientific colleague, Thomas Huxley. With no need to seek employment, Darwin took ...

"Down but not out".

Out but not down

his research partner Nico Forraz. He plans to open the world's biggest institute devoted to cord blood and adult stem cells. McGuckin has been a leader of researchers working in the UK on stem cells derived from babies' umbilical cord blood. The method is less controversial than embryo-derived stem cells as no embryo is destroyed in the process. He told the Times Higher Education that France ha...