A 26-yr-old male patient was referred to the outpatient clinic with a history of recurrent respiratory infections since 8 yrs of age and a daily productive cough with purulent sputum. He related nasal sneezing, hoarseness and wheezing episodes to weather changes and exposure to dusts and chemicals. Dyspnoea on exertion was present during exacerbations. He had never smoked and denied any family ...

Aman inhis 70swith a history of rheumatoid arthritis and a 50-pack-year smokinghistory presentedwith aworsening unproductive cough. Chest radiography identified a right lung nodule, with complete workup revealing a T2aN0M0 right upper lobe non–small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) measuring 4.3 × 2.9 cm. A clinically significant cardiac history precluded theoptionof surgery.Hewas treatedwithadefinitiv...

According to Tesla’s lecture prepared for the Institute of Immigrant Welfare (May. 12, 1938), his ”Dynamic Theory of Gravity” was one of two far reaching discoveries, which he ”...worked out in all details”, in the years 1893 and 1894. The 1938 lecture was less than five years before his death. More complete statements concerning these discoveries can only be gleaned from scattered and sparse s...

A 44-year-old African-American male presented to the emergency department with progressive left-sided anterior chest pain of 1-month duration, which was rated six out of 10 in intensity. Associated symptoms included nocturnal dry cough and tenderness to touch. The patient's symptoms were relieved with ibuprofen. When questioned, the patient denied having fever, chills, dyspnoea, weight loss, ab...

John Topp, who died on 23 February 2016, was a Principal Medical Officer who was one of the first to draw attention to the increased rate of suicide among the prison population. In the late 1970s, he showed that suicide was three times as common in prisoners as in the general population, that it was most common in those with sentences longer than 18 months and that the greatest risk was in the ...

We examine self-control problems — modeled as time-inconsistent, presentbiased preferences—in a model where a person must do an activity exactly once. We emphasize two distinctions: Do activities involve immediate costs or immediate rewards, and are people sophisticated or naive about future self-control problems? Naive people procrastinate immediate-cost activities and preproperate—do too soon...

This article describes experiments in which happy or sad moods were induced in subjects by hypnotic suggestion to investigate the influence of emotions on memory and thinking. One result was that subjects exhibited mood-state-dependent memory in recall of word lists, personal experiences recorded in a daily diary, and childhood experiences; people recalled a greater percentage of those experien...

A 44-year-old male presents with shortness of breath, non-productive cough, and chest tightness to the ski clinic in Winter Park, Colorado. He flew from his home town, San Antonio, Texas, three days earlier. Symptoms began the day after arrival and progressively worsened over the course of the last 2 days. Shortness of breath is exacerbated by physical activity and relieved by rest. He tried hi...