A 51 year old man presented with a two year history of gradually deteriorating vision in his left eye, accompanied by 34 kg weight gain, easy bruising, and hypertension which was relatively resistant to conventional treatment. The patient denied any history of headaches. On examination, his general appearance was as shown (fig 1). On ocular examination his visual acuity was 6/6 in the right and...

Kendall, A. C., Jones, E. E., Wilson, C. I. D., Shinton, N. K., and Elwood, P. C. (1974). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 49, 736. Folic acid in low birthweight infants. A double-blind randomized trial of 50 ,ug folic acid or placebo given from 2 weeks to 6 months to 130 infants of birthweight less than 2 5 kg has been conducted. While only 62 of the babies completed the 6-month follow-up, no...

Aim: We aimed to evaluate the prevalence of obesity among the adults who visited to family medicine clinic. Methods: The volunteer individuals aged 18 and over who admitted to family medicine outpatient clinic were included in the study. Demographic characteristics and height, weight and body mass index (BMI) of the participants were recorded. Results: Of the participants, 26.4% (n=505) were ma...

Review of James Hankins, Virtue politics: Soulcraft and statecraft in Renaissance Italy (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2020, 736 pp., index)

If a partnership makes payment to partner for services rendered in the latter's capacity as or use of capital, extent that is determined without regard income, it characterized by Internal Revenue Code "guaranteed payment" and treated differently from other distributions. In addition, if liquidation retiring deceased partner's interest partnership, part may be guaranteed section 736(a)(2). We w...

the development of metal-based therapeutics. Cisplatin is one platinum complex and is widely used in treatments for cancer. Shimizu and Tsuji established a method of preparing colloidal platinum particles, whose average size is 2 nm, by ethanol reduction of H2PtCl6 in the absence of protective agents such as hydrophilic polymers. They used only the chemicals permitted to food additives such as ...