A pologies to George Orwell but the Evidence Based gurus have replaced the Thought Police. The Ministry of Love has been taken over by the Cochrane Collaboration. Perhaps it is just as well! The latest piece of research to cross my desk creates some food for thought. One area of sports medicine that has slipped under the radar is podiatry, where practitioners prescribe orthoses on the basis tha...

UNLABELLED Pseudocercospora is a large cosmopolitan genus of plant pathogenic fungi that are commonly associated with leaf and fruit spots as well as blights on a wide range of plant hosts. They occur in arid as well as wet environments and in a wide range of climates including cool temperate, sub-tropical and tropical regions. Pseudocercospora is now treated as a genus in its own right, althou...

Sun-Jong Kang, Jung-Eun Oh, Yong-Jin Cho, Hwang-Sik Shin, Byung-Wook Yoo, Sung-Ho Hong, Hyun Joe, Doo-Yong Son, Kyung-Suk Shin. Korean J Fam Pract 2023;13:165-70. https://doi.org/10.21215/kjfp.2023.13.3.165

Two soybean (Glycine max L. Merrill) cultivars, Shin-Tanbakuro and Midori, were grown under mild water stress conditions for 11 days at the vegetative growth stage in order to examine the effect of drought stress on plant biomass production, photosynthetic gas exchange, chlorophyll fluorescence and photoassimilate translocation along with changes in carbohydrates and nitrogen. Relative growth r...

Abstract Aim Plaster of Paris casts form one the most basic yet effective treatment for acute orthopaedic fractures and often a permanent methodology. Patients with present at all times day to services require prompt stabilisation. Casts however do some risks including compartment syndrome skin ulcerations. Our quality improvement aimed improve confidence in healthcare providers across differen...

IN THIS ESSAY WE will focus on the well-known teaching of the “two truths” (Jpn. shinzoku nitai). This theory has been notably prominent in the history of modern Shin Buddhism and indicates the continuing concern for the relation between Shin teaching and the institutions to society. The theory is one of the most problematic concepts in Shin Buddhism today, encountering sharp criticism from man...