Diarrheal disease is a major cause of childhood morbidity and mortality worldwide. Chronic enteropathy with subsequent persistent diarrhea and associated vicious cycles of malnutrition, increased gut permeability and secondary immunodeficiency are particularly devastating in the childhood population. The major causes of chronic enteropathy differ significantly between developed countries and de...

Obesity is the most common form of malnutrition in dogs and cats in the United States 1. A 1974 report noted the prevalence of obesity in cats was only 6-12 % 2. More recently, two national studies using body condition scores to establish weight categories reported approximately 3035% of dogs and cats visiting private veterinary practices are overweight to obese. 1,3 And, nearly 50% of the cats...

Hypothermia is generally defined as a core body temperature less than 35°C (95°F). It is one of the most common environmental emergencies encountered by emergency physicians and was documented as a special resuscitation situation in advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) and advanced trauma life support (ALTS) guidelines on cardiopulmonary resuscitation and emergency cardiac care. This condition ...

PROBABLY on balance there has been as much failure as sucmces so far in the efforts made by society to come to terms with ageing, and of all the; problems involved the most onerous and distressing are those arising from mental disorder. Its prevalence in people aged 65; and over may be at least 30 per cent, and 6 per cent are disabled by primary neurfonal or arteriosclerotic dementia. Of all th...

M. S. Thambirajah is a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist working in Dudley and Walsall Mental Health Partnership Trust. He is the author of Case Studies in Child and Adolescent Mental Health (Radcliffe Publishing 2007) and Psychological Basis of Psychiatry (Elsevier 2005) and co-author of Understanding School Refusal (Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2007). Correspondence Dr M. S. Thambir...

Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a syndrome manifesting in abnormal involuntary movements following prolonged exposure to neuroleptic treatment and the syndrome may be irreversible. This syndrome was initially described by Hall et al. (1956), Schonecker et al. (1957) and Sigwald et al. (1959). Clinically, this syndrome includes a variety of hyperkinetic involuntary movements primarily of the tongue, ...

Hemochromatosis is one of the most frequent genetic diseases among the white populations, affecting one in three hundred persons. Its diagnosis has been radically transformed by the discovery of the HFE gene. In a given individual, the diagnosis can, from now on, be ascertained on the sole association of a plasma transferrin saturation (TS) over 45% and homozygosity for the C282Y mutation. Live...