TripAdvisor is a website that hosts mostly user generated reviews of hotels and so on of interest to tourists. Should patients seeking fertility treatment get something similar, based on others’ reviews, to help them choose a clinic? A public debate convened by the Progress Educational Trust at London’s Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in April considered this divisive issue. L...

As the incidence of vaccine preventable diseases has declined, and more new vaccines are marketed, adverse events following immunisation have attracted greater attention from the public and from health care providers. At a population level, post-licensure monitoring of vaccine safety in many countries relies on notifications to passive surveillance systems, such as the Australian Adverse Drug R...

Biomedical ethicists and clinical practitioners both champion the good of the patient, but sometimes their approaches diverge. The harmony of the ideal and the real is our utmost goal, but we often confront situations where theory falls apart in practice. A neonatal study performed by several noted institutions that is being audited by the US Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) is a ca...

L. Witmer. Commonwealth Fund. $2.50. Despite the experience of humanity since time began of the importance of " mind " in relationship to " body public imagination has not yet been stirred to any great extent, at least in this country, by the greatest of modern adventures in the field of human welfare, that of psychiatry. This is perhaps scarcely surprising in that medicine has tended to deal w...

A 48-year-old Chinese woman presented with progressive right-sided sensorineural hearing loss. Computerised tomography showed asymmetrical widening of the right internal acoustic canal. Post-gadolinium magnetic resonance images demonstrated marked enhancement of an intracanalicular tumour. The diagnosis of acoustic neuroma was confirmed surgically. The approach to imaging of deafness, particula...

layed until January, 1928. These clinics are controlled by the State Board of Education and are under the direct supervision of its Division of Special Education and Standards and in cooperation with the local school superintendents or state supervising agents. In January, 1928, eight clinics were opened, one in each of the following places: Danbury, Hartford, Meriden, New Britain,* New Haven, ...