A discussion of the contribution made by David Wills to the residential care of young people prompted by his book on the Reynolds House experiment.

ABSTRACT First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors selection papers published in Journal Cell Science, helping researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Rachel Wills author on ‘ A novel homeostatic mechanism tunes PI(4,5)P2-dependent signaling at plasma membrane’, JCS. conducted research described this article while PhD student Gerry Hammond's lab University Pit...

In two recent articles,1 the doctrine of testamentary undue influence was reevaluated and found deficient. In both articles it was argued that the doctrine as presently applied does not protect vulnerable testators,2 most particularly elderly people who make wills.3 The concern that elderly testators4 making wills for the first time, changing wills or adding codicils to their wills are subject ...

SIR—We read with interest the results of questionnaire survey of British geriatricians regarding ‘Living wills and the Mental Capacity Act’ by Schiff et al. [1]. It is good to know that geriatricians favoured the use of living wills and that many had come across living wills while caring patients and felt it helped in end-of-life care planning. We too feel that people in the United Kingdom have...

Tropical macrocytic anaemia, as described by Wills (Wills and Mehta, 1930; Wills, 1934), now knownas ' Nutritional Macrocytic Anaemia' (N.M.A.), occurs all over the world, and is commonly recognized as being due to multiple nutritional deficiencies. It is diagnosed as such if the patient has a blood picture typical of macrocytic anaemia and free hydrochloric acid, and if pepsinogen and rennin a...