The introduction of a material able to promote osteogenesis and remodelling activity in a clinically relevant time frame in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures may have patient benefit. We report the in-vivo performance of a biphasic synthetic bone graft material (Genex Paste, Biocomposites, UK) [test material], composed of calcium sulfate and β-tricalcium phosphate, implanted into a shee...

the factory, separated almost entirely from the life of the child, whose education, on the other hand, is supervised and controlled by an authority who is not likely to be familiar with any of the activities in which the boy will eventually engage. Thus there is no longer in this modern community that correlation between the boy's early and later life which prevailed in more primitive groups. T...

workers as the Director of the Notre Dame Child Guidance Clinic, Glasgow. Her pamphlet is therefore a record of first-hand experience, and in it readers will find a clear and concise description of the working of her Clinic, under the following heads: " The Children attending the Clinic "> " The Members composing the Clinic Staff" and " Clinical Methods of Procedure in a short conclusion some c...

The nervous system has the job of controlling and monitoring events throughout the whole body. But, unlike endocrine cells, which control their targets through long-range chemical cues, neurons communicate through direct cellular contacts, or synapses. As the information content of the electrical signals used by neurons is limited, much of the meaning in neural communication is conveyed by the ...

Dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) is a technology that is widely used to diagnose osteoporosis, assess fraclure risk, and monitor changes in bone mineral density (BMD). The clinical utility of DXA is highly dependent on the quality of the scan acquisition, analysis, and interpretation. Clinicians are best equipped to manage patients when BtviD measurements are correct and interpretation fo...

In this book, Dr. Moodie presents a simple explanation of Child Guidance for the benefit of doctors, teachers and magistrates. He explains in the introduction that " Child Guidance sets out not only to help the individual child who, through handicap or dullness, unstable temperament, or unsettling environment, must bear more than his fair load of difficulty, but to relieve the community of the ...