Australia has three permanent scientific stations in Antarctica – Casey, Mawson and Davis and a permanent station on Macquarie Island in the sub-Antarctic. These stations are manned year round with populations varying from as few as 14 over the winter months to over 60 in summer. Summer personnel may spend only a couple of months at a station whereas wintering groups may spend as long as sevent...

CONTEXT AND OBJECTIVE High prevalence of mistreatment among medical students has been described in the worldwide literature since the 1980s. However, studies addressing the severity and recurrence of victimization and its effects on students' perceptions of their medical course are scarce. This study had the aim of estimating the prevalence of exposure to mistreatment that was considered to be ...

The use of a Mersilene mesh sling in brow suspension ptosis surgery is presented. Seventeen cases of severe blepharoptosis have been treated by means of this sling with favourable results. Materials used in brow suspension procedures are categorised and discussed, and it is concluded that the Mersilene sling is an alternative to those currently available for the management of severe blepharopto...

OBJECTIVE To determine the content and urgency of pages and their effect on the activities of pediatric residents. DESIGN Prospective survey. SETTING University-affiliated teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS Seventeen pediatric residents on regular pediatric services. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS/MAIN RESULTS On daily logs, interns recorded the activity interrupted by a page and rated...

The 24-hour excretion of 17-ketosteroids and 17-hydroxycorticosteroids has been estimated in a series of male duodenal ulcer subjects and compared with that of 56 normal male controls. It has been found that both 17-ketosteroid and 17-hydroxycorticosteroid excretion is less in ulcer subjects than in the control group; these differences are not large but in the case of 17-hydroxycorticosteroids ...

In this issue of Blood, Hertlein and colleagues present compelling in vitro and in vivo evidence that the novel HSP90 inhibitor 17-DMAG is a potent and selective killer of CLL cells that mediates its effects through the targeted inhibition of NF-B. Their findings describe a promising new therapeutic approach for the treatment of this disease.