500,000 cases. The patient was a boy of 4 years of age, and from the history given by the parents appears to have been a healthy lad till a short time before admission. He was the third of three living children, two others having died in infancy from wasting. Six months before admission he had had measles, but had recovered satisfactorily. Three months before admission as an in-patient he had b...

“We received an overwhelming number of nominations,” said Anand Ekambaram, managing director of BMJ India.More than 500 individuals and teams throughout India have been put forward. “The BMJ India Awards are a very prestigious recognition, and it is an honour to be among the nominees,” said Sarman Singh, professor and head of the division of clinical microbiology and molecular medicine at the A...

Use cases are intended to specify system behavior from the user's point of view. In UML, use cases are meta-modeled as classifiers, trying to fit them within the general object-oriented paradigm. Classifiers specify a set of instances, and use case instances are said to be occurrences of emergent behaviors, that is, concrete system-actor interactions. This idea poses some difficulties, since it...

After an exhaustive 10-month-long search I (or a new school president, the Engineers of I Lehigh University finally have got their man: Penn's Gregory Farrington, dean of the School of Engineering and Applied SciI ence. Ron Ulrich, chairperson of Lehigh's board | of trustees, announced the hiring of Farrington one week ago at a noon press conference in the Bethlehem, Pa., campus' | Alumni Memor...

More than a year after the Batista procedure jumped into national headlines, experts at the 71st Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association meeting in Dallas, Tex, reported both good and bad news about the radically different surgery. Patrick McCarthy, MD, cardiovascular surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio, said 72% of patients who had the procedure have survived $2 ye...

Dillon Hall forfeited one of its SYRs and must do a com m unity service pro ject as a result o f a "private tailgater” in Ann Arbor, Mich., on Sept. 14 w hich included the hall’s fight song and bright red flag, Dillon Hall President John Hus mann said. The pre-gam e tailgater, w hich was not sponsored by the hall, “appeared as a Dillon gathering so it appeared as a N otre Dame gathering," Hus m...

SOME time ago, a medical psychologist said he wished the Church would provide a sound consulting service for spiritual problems. Shortly afterwards, I came across an appeal from Dr. C. G. Jung, a medical psychologist of world renown. He first said that the real problem of hundreds of patients coming to him from all parts of the civilised world was that of finding a religious outlook on life, an...