This article analyzes the news coverage of the 2004 European Parliamentary (EP) elections in all 25 member states of the European Union (EU). It provides a unique pan-European overview of the campaign coverage based on an analysis of three national newspapers and two television newscasts in the two weeks leading up to the elections. On average, the elections were more visible in the new 10 memb...

Childhood asymmetry labium majus enlargement (CALME) is a distinctive clinicopathologic entity of preand early puberty first described by Vargas et al. in 2005. Although CALME is not a rare lesion, it has been diagnosed for lipoma, fibroma, hamartoma, and fibrous hyperplasia according to the proportion of the histologic components. CALME is a siteand agespecific non-neoplastic physiologic growt...

Two key factors that have so far allowed fast growing economies of central and eastern Europe to cope with their external constraint have been i) the presence of relatively low unit labour costs and ii) the initial undervaluation of the exchange rate. The accession to the EU will inevitably reduce both sources of competitiveness of eastern European exports: real wages are likely to catch-up wes...

Chan DWC, et al. BMJ Case Rep 2017. doi:10.1136/bcr-2017-220057 Description A woman aged 67 years was referred with pituitary enlargement identified on CT scan. Imaging was performed to investigate a progressive, incapacitating, 12-month history of nausea, vertigo, gait disturbance and recurrent falls. Her presentation included chronic occipitofrontal headaches, which had increased in severity ...

A 20 yr old man presented to the Dermatology Outpatient Department of Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi, India, in July 2014 with asymptomatic slowly progressive swelling of the upper lip for six months. The swelling was episodic initially but became persistent later. The patient did not have any systemic (including gastrointestinal) complaint. There was no history of prior intake of an...

This paper takes a welfare-view on eastern enlargement of the EU, focusing on incumbent countries. Enlargement is decomposed into three elements: Single-market integration on commodity markets, budgetary costs from EU-expenditure policies, and single-market-induced migration from new to present member countries. I first use an analytical model to derive a welfare equation that identifies the pr...

tuberculosis is a chronic, specifi c granulomatous disease and a major cause of death in developing countries. we report a case of tuberculosis presenting fi rst as periodontal loss of tooth support leading to loose teeth and gingival enlargement affecting a 17-year-old female patient without any pulmonary lesion. diagnosis was based on histopathological examination and positive adenosine deami...