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Professor of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, his colleagues found it necessary to pass a rule that "no visiting chief could perform an autopsy except on a case from his own ward". Osler's enthusiasm for autopsies never diminished. Even as Regius Professor at Oxford, Osler could not resist the urge to roll up his sleeves and take part in a post-mortem dissection. The ...

Until recently, as the authors point out, the history of medicine had doctors as its heroes. Today, when the concern of most researchers is with the social, professional, and institutional aspects of the history of medicine and more broadly with health and healers of all descriptions, modem scholarship has become "increasingly critical of, or even hostile towards, the profession". No one denies...

This article presents methods and results in the application of the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) analysis to a problem in missing data. The data used here are from The Atlantic Slave Trade Database (TASTDB), 2010 version, available online. Of the 35,000 transatlantic slaving voyages known at that time, original data on the size of the cargo of captives exist for some 25 percent of voyage emb...

A. CAMJAYI, K. HAULE, V. DOBROSAVLJEVIĆ AND G. KOTLIAR* Department of Physics and Astronomy, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, USA Departamento de Fı́sica, Comisión Nacional de Energı́a Atómica (CNEA), Avenida General Paz y Constituyentes, 1650 San Martı́n, Argentina Department of Physics and National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32...

Karyne M. rogers National Isotope Centre, GNS Science, PO Box 31-312, Lower Hutt 5011, New Zealand Jo Marie CooK Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, 3125 Conner Blvd, Building #3, Tallahassee, FL 32399-1650 Dana Krueger Krueger Food Laboratories, Inc., 45 Manning Rd, Billerica, MA 01821 Klaus BeCKMann Quality Services International GmbH, Flughafendamm 9a, 28199 Bremen, Germany

The abilities of 5,6-benzoflavone (5,6-BF, a synthetic flavonoid), indole-3-carbinol (I3C, a plant derived product) or diindolylmethane (DIM, a condensation product of I3C) to alter the induction of mammary cancers induced by the carcinogens 7,12-dimethylbenzanthracene (DMBA) or N-methyl-N-nitrosourea (MNU) were evaluated. Interestingly, the first two agents act as aryl hydrocarbon receptor (Ah...

*Correspondence to: Dr Maria L. Amador, The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Room 162A, 1650 Orleans Street, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA. Tel: +1-410-502-5835; Fax: +1-410-614-9006; E-mail [email protected] The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD, USA; Pharmamar, SA, Madrid; Hospital Universitario Doce de Octubre, Medical Oncology De...