'Please do not write any more articles about cholesterol and coronary disease and the diet and drugs which are supposed to influence them. The facts about coronary disease are these: the less atheromatous your ancestors, the harder your water, and the more habitual exercise you take, the less likely you are to be troubled by it. Do stop bothering about whether your fats are saturated or unsatur...

Dengue is the world's most important and fastest spreading viral vector-borne disease. Due to international trade and travel, demographic and climate changes, the global incidence of dengue increased 30-fold during last 50 years and it is now estimated that 50-250 million cases occur each year. Only a small percentage of cases are symptomatic and reported. Two fifths of the human population liv...

Although today’s computers provide huge amounts of main memory, the ever-increasing load of large data servers, imposed by resource-intensive decision-support queries and accesses to multimedia and other complex data, often leads to memory contention and may result in severe performance degradation. Therefore, careful tuning of memory mangement is crucial for heavy-load data servers. This paper...

AIM To assess the knowledge of general pediatricians througout Indonesia about the diagnosis and treatment of childhood constipation. METHODS A comprehensive questionnaire was distributed to general pediatricians from several teaching hospitals and government hospitals all over Indonesia. RESULTS Data were obtained from 100 pediatricians, with a mean of 78.34 ± 18.00 mo clinical practice, f...

This issue of the journal includes three papers that examine diferent aspects of emergency advanced airway management. Two elate to the pre-hospital phase of care1,2 and the third to the mangement of in-hospital cardiac arrest.3 There is general consensus hat unconscious patients with airway compromise require rapid ffective airway intervention and, where the level of consciousess is not rapidl...

The transition towards the information society, based on knowledge, is considered a necessary evolution to obtain a lasting development in the context of the “new economy”, mainly based on intellectual-intensive products and activities and to realize an advanced civilization. In this context, the organization realised that their main values are the knowledge and the ability to use it in the org...

BACKGROUND Mental health problems commonly begin in adolescence when the majority of people are living with family. This can be a frightening time for relatives who often have little knowledge of what is happening or how to manage it. The UK National Health Service has a commitment to support relatives in order to reduce their distress, but research studies have shown that this can lead to a be...

We do endeavour always to send letters of thanks to all concerned. The efficacy of transplan-tation for all organs is widely reported in the medical press and we lecture frequently and regularly on all aspects of transplantation, including the mangement of organ donors, thoughout Britain. We would be only too happy to lecture in Mr Richard's unit. As far as the general mcdia are concerned it is...

Average global temperatures have been rising extremely rapidly over recent decades, with all the side-effects that may denote, including increased risks of both drought and flood, prolongation growing season, intensification other extreme weather events, potentially enhanced erosion sediment transport through river basins, even invasions pests diseases. Against factual background, this paper pr...