A rthur George Lipman, longtime director of clinical pharmacology at the University of Utah’s Pain Management Center, died of myelofibrosis on April 23 at the age of 72. Lipman was a respected clinician and a widely published author and speaker on the subject of pain management. He served as editor of several academic publications, including the Journal of Pain & Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy...

The proposals have also drawn anger from the energy industry. Kathleen Sgamma, a director of the Western Energy Alliance, which represents 400 oil and natural-gas companies, said the new policy could block some promising lands from drilling. “They’re treating lands arbitrarily as de facto wildernesses,” she said. And Dean Heller, a Republican representative from Nevada, said: “The message of th...

Grob said he believed that potential is not enough to ensure a student's success at Rice; he must also have adequate background and preparation. A student's motivation, often a nebulous factor, also is a large factor in determining whether or not an applicant will be able to do the work at Rice, he said. Dr. Douglas Milburn, of the D e p a r t m e n t of Germanics, pointed out that it is import...

ILLIAM NUTTALL, an English stutterer, writing in the journal Psyche, in 1937, said, in effect, that whoever finds a cure for stuttering will have found a cure for all the ills of society .. We should not permit his possible exaggeration to distract us from the peculiarly fundamental wisdom which he expressed . In a sense, what he said of stuttering might also be said of such other perplexing fo...

...a distinction...within the total signification of a remark...between what the speaker has said (in a certain favored and maybe in some degree artificial, sense of “said”), and what he has implicated (e.g., implied, indicated, suggested, etc.), taking into account the fact that what he has implicated may be either conventionally implicated (implicated by virtue of the meaning of some word or ...

Going home after a housing co-op meeting, a friend offered to walk me to the bus stop. ‘‘I’m going to show you something’’ he said ‘‘and you won’t believe you’ve passed it so many times and never seen it before’’. As we rounded a corner he halted and I saw what I thought to be the base of a lamppost. Then I looked up, having to tilt my head back to see that this ‘lamp post’ was headless and at ...

the term reflex epilepsy in reserved for a small subgroup o seizures that occur regularly in response to specific stimuli. our patient is a 20- year old male, who had pleasure, euphoria, loss of conciousness and generalized tonic- clonic convulstion when he watched tv since ten years. during puberty the patient that self-induced reflex epilepsy with photic stimulation, when watching tv or looki...

The number of newly reported cases of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is falling, with reports of empty beds in treatment centres, the World Health Organization has said. At a press conference Bruce Aylward, WHO assistant director general in charge of the operational response to Ebola, reported a “glimmer of hope”—the number of newly reported cases is beginning to decline, treatment centres are ...

The UK doctor who is leading efforts to control the outbreak of Ebola virus disease in west Africa and to ensure that the NHS is ready to deal with cases that might emerge in the United Kingdom has called for doctors and politicians to be consistent in their messages to the public. Brian McCloskey, director of global health for Public Health England and currently working in Geneva to help coord...