Nepotism has been the primary influence on political behavior throughout human history. Despite the spread of democracy in the 20 century, nepotistic regimes have hardly disappeared. Nepotism heavily influences political activity throughout the developing world, Middle East, and central Asia where family ties are essentially for gaining access to power, state resources, and privileges. Rebellin...

Our friend and colleague Wayne Fenton asked to write this article for the Journal because of his desire to educate other psychiatrists about the treatment of schizophrenia, including what he recognized to be a growing problem with the metabolic syndrome. This lifelong passion, which he pursued from his psychiatry residency at Yale, through his directorship of Chestnut Lodge, to his position at ...

Incomplete recovery following reversal of neuromuscular blockade can present as a clinical problem in surgical patients. Emerging pharmacologic solutions may prevent such adverse outcomes in the future. We briefly review two methods of pharmacologic reversal of neuromuscular blockade. Both methods of reversal are effective. However the early studies of the new compound, sugammadex has been show...

Breast Cancer: a Preliminary Clinical Study 3 Chuanming Li[ , Shan Meng[ , Xinhua Yang, Daiquan Zhou, Jian Wang, Jiani 4 Hu 5 6 1 Department of Radiology, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical University, 7 30 Gaotanyan Road, Chongqing 400038, China; 8 2 Department of Breast Surgery, Southwest Hospital, Third Military Medical 9 University, 30 Gaotanyan Road, Chongqing 400038, China; 10 3 D...

A number of authors have described the advantages of the knee-chest position for operations on lumbar intervertebral discs (Lipton 1950; Taylor, Gleadhill, Bilsland and Murray 1956; Wayne 1967). Wayne listed the advantages as simplicity of positioning, ease of maintenance of good ventilation, avoidance of epidural venous engorgement, excellent exposure of the interlaminar space and decreased ri...