To determine the nature and frequency of malabsorption in patients with continent ileostomies, faeces and urine from 42 patients with ileal pouches and from 19 patients with conventional ileostomies were analysed and compared. The patients with conventional ileostomy were matched with patients with ileal pouches. Thirteen of the patients with pouches were found to have excessive faecal volumes ...

For patients, the principal drawback of a colostomy is the loss of faecal continence. To achieve a continent colostomy has long been the goal of surgeons. A magnetic stoma seal became feasible when a strong, light, durable magnet made of samarium-cobalt became commercially available in 1972. This metal compound has the highest magnetic energy per unit volume and loses only a few per cent of its...

Over the years, the African continent has had to battle several outbreaks of infectious diseases in different countries. Some of the most deadly were the Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks that occurred in West Africa between 2014 and 2016 affecting Guinea, Liberia, and Sierra Leone and, more recently, from 2018 to 2020 in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In the era of the COVID-19 pand...

It was a bold move, given the deeply entrenched positions of many of Europe's ancient universities and education systems but optimism is growing that, by 2010, a European area of higher education might well be established. Ministers from this unprecedented collaboration, which now comprises 40 countries extending well beyond the EU into the Balkans and Eastern Europe, meet in Bergen this month ...

this paper deals with the philosophical aspects of nationalism and pan-islamism in view of dr. muhammad iqbal, a great poet and philosopher of sub-continent. the paper examines in an analytical way, how iqbal’s concept of nationalism is different from western brand of nationalism and coincided with jamal-u-din afghani’s ideal of pan-islamism. the paper discusses how iqbal reconciled his ideal w...