Purpose: Pelvic floor muscle dysfunction is a common cause of constipation. This dysfunction does not respond to current treatments of constipation. Thus, it is important to identify this type of dysfunction and the role of these muscles in constipation. The purpose of the present study was to review the previously published studies concerning the role of pelvic floor muscles dysfunction ...

eThis article draws upon the Roman Catholic distinction between "ordinary" and "extraordinary" means of medical treatment to analyze the case of "Jodie" and "Mary," the Maltese conjoined twins whose surgical separation was ordered by the English courts over the objection of their Roman Catholic parents and Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, the Roman Catholic Cardinal Archbishop of Westminister. It attemp...

REVIEW COMMITTEE Todd ABRUZZO Tibor BECSKE Martin BENDZUS Zsolt BERENTEI Edoardo BOCCARDI Giuseppe BONALDI Allan BROOK Patrick BROUWER Winston CHONG Christophe COGNARD Orlando DIAZ Jens FIEHLER Gyula GÁL Pierre GOBIN Jan GRALLA Gábor JANIGA Ferenc KÖVÉR Timo KRINGS Zsolt KULCSÁR Luigi MANFRE Miklós MAROSFŐI Pereira VITOR MENDES Kieran MURPHY Mario MUTO Makoto NEGORO Darren ORBACH Santhosh RAJ G...

This is an overview of the history of the late effects of polio in this country from 1980 to the present in the context of the broader and much longer history of acute poliomyelitis. Books, articles, conference proceedings, and other relevant historical resources that dealt with polio-related issues from January 1, 1980, through December 31, 2009, were reviewed. The mean number of articles publ...

A preliminary report of this work has been published (1). Receivedfor publication 13 August 1979 and in revisedform 21 January 1980.