The arterial switch operation, also called the Jatene procedure, is an operation in which surgeons redirect the flow of blood through abnormal hearts. In 1975, Adib Jatene conducted the first successful arterial switch operation on a human infant. The arterial switch operation corrects a condition called transposition of the great arteries, abbreviated TGA, also called transposition of the grea...

1930-1975 G ORDON HAMILTON FAIRLEY, professor of medical oncology at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London, was killed by a terrorist bomb in London on October 23, 1975. He was 45 years old. The son of Sir Neil Hamilton Fairley, an eminent research worker in tropical diseases, Gordon Fairley was born and received his early education in Australia. After completing his preclinical studies at Magdale...

Malaria, which was endemic in Greece in the past, was officially eliminated in 1974. Since that time and up to 2010, a number of imported cases (ranging from 19 to 76) have been annually reported. The total number of reported laboratory-confirmed cases between 1975 and 2010 was 1,419. Plasmodium falciparum was identified in 628 (44%) of these cases, while P. vivax was found in 524 (37%). Of the...

In Birth without Violence (1975), French obstetrician Frederick Leboyer [4] describes in poetic form the possible perceptions and feelings of embryos and fetuses before, during, and after birth. His work has helped to promote a gentler and more sensitive birthing method with the goal of easing the newborn?s transition from the womb [5] to the outside world. Leboyer?s birthing method influenced ...

This paper described a pharmacokinetic model for the hepatic elimination of drugs based on the relationship between the involved physiological factors including the new concept of "intrinsic clearance." It was shown that such a unifying model could describe the known effects of perturbations in the determinants on a drug's blood concentration-time profile caused by disease-states, drug interact...