Whereas it is expedient to provide for the control ?nd prevention of dangerous diseases in Bengal, it is hereby enacted as follows:? ,1(i) This Act may be called the "Prevention of dangerous Diseases Act." (?) It extends to the whole of Bengal (except placcs Where the Calcutta Municipal Act, 1923 is in force). (Hi) It shall come into force on For the purposes o>f this Act, unless there is any"l...

In this paper we prove an exponential separation between two very similar and natural SAT encodings for the same problem, thereby showing that researchers must be careful when designing encodings, lest they accidentally introduce complexity into the problem being studied. This result provides a formal explanation for empirical results showing that the encoding of a problem can dramatically affe...

Dangerous Anthropogenic Interference The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) commits signatory nations (which includes all major nations including the United States) to stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations at levels short of DAI. To properly define DAI, one must take into account issues that are not only scientific, but, as I have argued elsewhere (2), economic, ...

A dangerous bias Sir, In their recently published paper (Domar et al., 2013), the authors' conclusion that 'there is little evidence of benefit from the antide-pressants prescribed for the majority of women of childbearing age—and there is ample evidence of risk', is based on a biased reading of the literature. Rather than including a balanced analysis of the studies on the subject, they cite f...

OBJECTIVES To compare the adverse effects of two regimens of chlorpheniramine plus chloroquine (CP+CQ) in children who live in a country where chloroquine resistant malaria is endemic. METHODS 99 children with acute uncomplicated malaria were randomised into two treatment groups. Group I received high dose chlorpheniramine (6 mg +12 mg/day for 7 days in children = 5 years; 8 mg + 18 mg/day fo...

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A 76-year-old man developed a hemoperitoneum after ERCP for choledocholithiasis. He underwent a laparotomy and splenectomy for a capsular tear at the splenic hilum, a rare complication of ERCP. "Bowing" of the endoscope with torsion on the greater curvature of the stomach may lead to shear forces causing splenic injury.

Aravanis C, Blackburn H, Buzina R, Dontas AS, Fidanza F. Serum total cholesterol and long-term coronary heart disease mortality in different cultures. Twenty-five-year follow-up of the seven countries study. JAMA 1995;274:131–136. 37. Holvoet P, Vanhaecke J, Janssens S, Van de Werf F, Collen D. Oxidized LDL and malondialdehyde-modified LDL in patients with acute coronary syndromes and stable co...

Altogether 85 eyes from patients at risk to the development of closed-angle glaucoma were dilated with either parasympatholytic or sympathomimetic drugs. Of 21 eyes dilated with cyclopentolate 1/2%, 9 developed angle closure and a significantly raised pressure at some stage during dilatation and subsequent miosis. Of 58 eyes dilated with tropicamide 1/2%, 19 developed angle closure and a signif...