Steven Hsiao Hopkins neuroscientist Steven Hsiao, one of the world’s leading experts on the neural basis of touch, passed away on June 16, 2014 at the age of 59 from lung cancer. Steve, the heir of an eminent line of sensory neuroscientists that included Vernon B. Mouncastle and Kenneth O. Johnson, sought to understand the neural code: how do spatio-temporal patterns of activity along the neura...

Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) is a hypersensitivity reaction that affects the skin and mucous membranes. In this case report patient had drug induced after taking treatment for bilateral leg edema, was hospitalized later diagnosed as SJS. Upon evaluation, increased serum creatinine, decreased albumin, urinary output almost an uric edema which are signs of acute kidney injury (AKI), common comp...

Stevens-Johnson syndrome is characterized by generalized exanthema associated with high fever, catarrhal symptoms and mucositis. Various etiologies have been implicated, particularly numerous medications and certain agents of atypical pneumonia. Stevens-Johnson syndrome leads to death in up to 5% of cases. We describe the case of a 30-year-old woman with bilateral atypical pneumonia accompanied...