enlarged, was retroverted, and lying somewhat low in the pelvis. The displacement, however, could not be considered abnormal at the age of 60, but in order to exclude it as a. possible cause I replaced the uterus and introduced a pessary. Curiously, next day the patient said she felt very much better, and on the following day she left the nursing home and travelled to Argyllshire. Two days late...

Single-incision slings were introduced in the surgical treatment of female stress urinary incontinence (SUI) to lessen the morbidity associated with traditional midurethral slings. However, long-term reports on patient satisfaction are still scarce. This study describes the outcome of women treated with Mini-Arc at a mean follow-up of 45 months. In a previous report on 105 women with 15-month m...

I was the shadow of the waxwing slain By the false azure in the windowpane; I was the smudge of ashen fluff-and I Lived on, flew on, in the reflected sky. PREFACE This thesis is thought to be reflective of the transformation, mistily rendered in the citation on the previous page, which has taken place in me since I have handed in my Ph.D. thesis in the spring of 1996. If this transformation, no...

Introduction: Tracheal chondrosarcoma (TCS) is a rare malignancy, with only 19 cases described in the literature to date. Case presentation: Herein, we presented the third-largest TCS with such an airway compromise that neither orotracheal intubation nor jet ventilation or even tracheostomy was possible. So, extracorporeal circulation was needed to excise the tumor in a one-stage procedure. Th...

There are clearly two problems facing people at the end of life. The first is that quality care does not reach enough people, and the second is that the rising costs of health care over preceding decades have imposed a substantial financial burden on patients, families, and the health care system. These two major problems may be mitigated with earlier and increased palliative care (PC) involvem...

End users respond to stakeholders' information requests by using query tools to retrieve information from their organizations’ data stores. The structure of these data stores impacts end users’ performance, e.g., the accuracy of their responses. Ontologically clearer conceptual models have been shown to facilitate better problem solving within real-world application domains. If, however, ontolo...

authors argue that calibration is a more important statistic than discrimination because a patient wants a model that predicts his risk accurately rather than one that distinguishes between men at higher and lower risk. Both aspects are important and models should be evaluated based on both discrimination and calibration. We agree that calibration should be more widely reported, but disagree th...

Nurses and other healthcare professionals who fail to give dying patients oral hydration and nutrition ‘when still possible and desired’ should face misconduct charges, according to new guidance on end of life care. The Department of Health (DH) last week published a new approach to care for the dying, Priorities for Care, which replaces the controversial Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP). It was dr...