After 15 years, environmental researcher Kenneth Reckhow can still feel the sting of rejection. As a young scientist appearing before an Environmental Protection Agency review panel, Reckhow was eager to discuss his idea for using an unorthodox statistical approach in a water-quality study. But before he could say a word, an influential member of the panel unleashed a rhetorical attack that sto...

G. DUNDAS EDWARDS, M.A., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. We regret to record the death of Dr. Edwards, who died suddenly on October ist in London. After taking his arts degree at Cambridge Dr. Edwards became a student at the Bristol Medical School and Ro3'al Infirmary, and afterwards began practice in Bath; but very soon he contracted phthisis, and had to relinquish all work for some years. He subsequently ...

Nemaline myopathy is a rare congenital disease that generally occurs in childhood. We report a case of a 50-year-old man who presented with severe heart failure as the initial manifestation of nemaline myopathy. Soon after he developed acute restrictive respiratory failure due to the diaphragmatic paralysis. The diagnosis of "nemaline myopathy" was obtained on muscle biopsy performed one year l...

FORTY YEARS AGO, this month, I started in practice, I confess without the benefit of vocational training; that came two months later when my chief had his first coronary. I was extremely fortunate in becoming assistant, and later partner, to John Taggart of the Antrim Road, one of the most distinguished practitioners of his day. Taggart was a County Antrim man, with all the bluntness and sagaci...

In 1991, Luka and ten of his comrades were captured near Knin, a Croatian town held by rebel Serbs and the Yugoslav Federal Army. Luka spent a few months in the Knin jail. The first days he was left without food or water. He kept refusing to submit himself to the guards, so they would often take him to the top floor and beat him until he would pass out. After-wards, they would drag him down, hi...