upon manuscript sources, many not previously exploited and some in private hands. Insights abound into not only Simon's career, presented on a decidedly unheroic scale, but also the many lives he touched during these years including Hideyo Noguchi, William Osler, William Welch, and the author's uncle (and writer of reports on medical education), Abraham Flexner. If some of the description of la...

People vary in the occurrence and perceived severity of stressors experienced in their daily lives. In the current study, the authors examined the extent to which individual differences in these relatively minor occurrences are determined by genetic endowment as well as environmental influences and how these effects vary by age. Identical (n-sub(pairs) = 111) and fraternal (n-sub(pairs) = 99) t...

The article examines the issue of musical training in second-grade schools for teachers Southern Ukraine at turn 19th and 20th centuries, which were subordinate to Educational Council Holy Synod. It has been noted that emergence such 1896 was due urgent need mass growing network literacy schools. On basis archival documents, author researched peculiarities functioning church Kherson Taurida Dio...

The improvement of healthcare quality and patient safety is at its heart a social act. I am particularly aware of this each year when I attend the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Health Care. In March 2009 in Berlin, I spent one of the most pleasurable evenings I can remember in a restaurant with colleagues from the UK, Sweden, Spain, Australia, Netherlands, Italy and the USA—a gro...

Introduction Complete foreign body airway obstruction is a life-threatening emergency, but there are limited data on its epidemiology. Methods We conducted a retrospective analysis of data collected routinely from London Ambulance Service calls coded as being for choking was undertaken for the calendar year of 2016. Results There were 1916 choking episodes of significant severity to call fo...

The relation between irregular and inconvenient working hours and the outcome of pregnancy was studied among women employed at a hospital in Sweden some time between 1980 and 1984. A questionnaire was distributed to 807 women; 81% replied. The pregnancies were divided into six groups with respect to work schedules during pregnancy. A slightly, but not significantly, increased risk of miscarriag...

OBJECTIVES This study extends the field of retirement and health by examining the impacts of daily stressors on morning cortisol levels in 253 retirees between 55 and 75 years of age ( M = 66.80, SD = 4.96) and the moderating roles of age and gender. METHOD Participants derived from the second wave of the Daily Diary Study portion of the National Survey of Midlife Development in the United St...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease characterised by autoantibodies against acetylcholine receptors at neuromuscular junctions, resulting in defective neuromuscular transmission. The characteristic features are fatigability and fluctuating weakness of skeletal muscles. It commonly presents with diplopia or unilateral ptosis, which are worse in the evenings. Respiratory muscle weakne...

ference on Student Mental Health in Colleges and Universities in the Philippines. Those who attend conferences often find that it is the informal meetings over coffee and in the evenings that are of more value than the actual formal sessions themselves. This truth is doubly reflected when it comes to reading the published reports of the conferences. What has been discussed and communicated both...

This article examines daily variability in 2 marital behaviors, social withdrawal and the expression of anger, as a function of daily taskload at work. Thirty-three air traffic controllers (ATCs) and 27 wives completed surveys on 3 consecutive days. Subjective and objective indicators of daily workload (air traffic volume and visibility at the airport) were related to the couples' descriptions ...