BACKGROUND Overconsumption of alcohol affects health. Data from men from the West of Scotland Collaborative study were analysed to see how reported alcohol was related to acute and mental health hospital admissions. METHODS Men (N = 5772) from a prospective cohort study located in 27 workplaces in West and Central Scotland were screened when aged 35-64 in 1970-3. The number of acute and menta...

The introduction of the Community Care (Delayed Discharge) Act 2003 in England led to a reduction in the mean and median length of stay of patients admitted to geriatric medicine (GM) units despite an increase in the number of admissions (Shah, 2007) because it imposed financial penalties on local authorities for delays in the discharge of patients. However, mean and median length of stay of pa...

The introduction of the Community Care (Delayed Discharge) Act 2003 in England led to a reduction in the mean and median length of stay of patients admitted to geriatric medicine (GM) units despite an increase in the number of admissions (Shah, 2007) because it imposed financial penalties on local authorities for delays in the discharge of patients. However, mean and median length of stay of pa...

of tincture of opium, with 15 minims of chloroform in water, and putting him on a wooden bedstead, lifted the latter so that his body formed an angle of nearly 45\ with an imaginary line drawn from his head parallel to the ground, both his legs being uppermost, and tied down with a bedslieet to the bedstead, to prevent his slipping down, out of the bed, in the direction of his head, which was l...

Pulmonary hypertension frequently complicates mitral stenosis. Increased pulmonary artery pressure results from raised left atrial pressure, pulmonary arteriolar constriction, and obliterative changes in the pulmonary vascular bed, and usually responds to surgical relief of mitral stenosis. However, severe pulmonary hypertension may persist after surgical treatment of mitral stenosis. We descri...

Using laboratory soil chambers a nonscaled representation of an agricultural raised bed was constructed. For a sandy loam soil, 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D) and chloropicrin (CP) were applied at 5 cm depth with an excess of water (simulated drip irrigation). Application was made under both high density polyethylene (HDPE) and virtually impermeable film (VIF) covering the soil bed (the furrow was...

Recent research suggests that the resurgence of bed bugs in the U.S. has occurred at an alarming rate. Assumptions have been made that socioeconomic status is not associated with the prevalence of bed bug infestations. Little information is available at the local level, however, about the prevalence of bed bugs in private homes. The authors' pilot study aimed to identify prevalence, knowledge, ...

This study investigated the hypothesis that atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) responses are mediated by particulate guanylate cyclase in the pulmonary vascular bed of the cat. When tone in the pulmonary vascular bed was raised to a high steady level with the thromboxane mimic U-46619, injections of ANP caused dose-related decreases in lobar arterial pressure. After administration of HS-142-1, an...

Using laboratory soil chambers a nonscaled representation of an agricultural raised bed was constructed. For a sandy loam soil, 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D) and chloropicrin (CP) were applied at 5 cm depth with an excess of water (simulated drip irrigation). Application was made under both high density polyethylene (HDPE) and virtually impermeable film (VIF) covering the soil bed (the furrow was...