46 INTRODUCTION P rior to 1969 athletes were encouraged to avoid drinking any fluids during exercise since it was believed that fluid ingestion would impair exercise performance, in particular by causing gastrointestinal distress, the so-called “stitch.” Athletes in those years actively followed that advice, priding themselves on their ability to run even 26 mile (42 km) marathon races without ...

We describe a 71 year old man with a neurodegenerative condition who developed chronic inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion and hypothermia resulting in recurrent episodes of impaired consciousness. This combination of abnormalities is attributable to hypothalamic disease and has not to our knowledge been previously reported with clearly documented antidiuretic hormone excess.

background: unintentional drug intoxication is still a major cause of mortality and morbidity in young children. method & materials: in order to study changes of epidemiological indices of children intoxication during a 10-year period in hamadan province, all cases admitted to ghaem hospital from 1995-1999 were recruited, and compared with all cases admitted to the same hospital from 1990-1994....