The number of immigrants in Italy has doubled every 10 years from 1972 and Genoa hosts two large communities of immigrants from South America and Africa. We investigated differences in the somatic perception between immigrants and Italians and between South Americans and Africans living in the city of Genoa. During a 7 month period, an anonymous questionnaire asking for sociodemographic informa...

background: for psychiatric disorders, comorbidity is a rule rather than exception. thus it is particularly important to study additive and multiplicative effects of multiple mental disorders on suicidal behaviors. objectives: the aim of this study was to investigate the ethnic differences in multiplicative effects of mental disorders on suicidal ideation among black adults in the united states...

Prof Lalit Prakash Agarwal drafted the National Programme for Prevention of Visual Impairment and Control of Blindness (now called National Programme for Control of Blindness) in India in 1976, first of its kind in the world. With his vision well ahead of his time, he brought the concept of super-specialty in Indian ophthalmology. He founded Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, t...

N Engl J Med 2004;351:1014-9. Copyright © 2004 Massachusetts Medical Society. A 67-year-old overweight man was seen by his physician because of a two-month history of shortness of breath, a nonproductive cough, and bilateral swelling of the lower extremities. He also reported a tight sensation in the neck, occasional wheezing, and an increase in dyspnea after meals. The patient noted the onset ...

Jaap Jongstra and Jan van Campen describe a letter from Constantijn Huygens 1629 in which he asks supplier to provide writing tray made of red lacquer, exactly like the one already possessed. Objects with lacquer were still very rare at that time. Some other objects Huygens' collection are now housed Rijksmuseum.

, j Americans would be amused if we assert. their citizens?the Wrights?pirated their ideas 0l]t aeroplanes from the Maliabharata, which describes tne use of aeroplanes in the great Indian war! knew Freyer, and I doubt if many of the writers would have tackled him if he were alive, as he was a sharp controversialist. Freyer was a big man who will >ve as one of the landmarks of surgery. He was qu...