.4cademic Departnment of Obstetrics and Gvnaecologi, School of Postgraduate Medicine, Keele U-niversity., North Staffordshire Hospital, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST4 7QB, UK; 'Department of Mathematics, Keele Univ ersit Staffordshire ST5 5BG, U-K: -Centre for Pathologi and Mfolecular Medicine, School of Postgraduate .Uedicine, Keele Unii ersiti,.orth Staffordshire Hospital. Stoke-on-Trent. ...

their educational programmes, possibly by supplying speakers and material. Both the Brook and Lewisham hospitals have been fortunate in receiving grants from the King's Fund, and an excellent centre has already been opened at Lewisham. Brighton have received £15,000 from the Nuffield Provincial Hospitals Trust and has been able to more than double this sum with local support: a major centre is ...

The appearance of the H5N1 strain of bird flu in Europe, and particularly the outbreak reported last month in Turkey, has heightened already raised concerns about the spread of the virus and its potential to seed the next human pandemic. There are new worries about how the disease appeared to infect birds almost simultaneously in 13 provinces scattered around Turkey and further concerns about w...