this study was performed to evaluate the results of 14 years of application of ilizarov method in treatment of infected non-:union:s of tibia and femur in patients with severe trauma and battlefield wounds. seventeen patients with long bone non:union: (14 were with infected non:union: of tibia out of whom two were associated with tibial bone defects and 3 with infected non-:union: of femur) wer...

in the battle of tabuk, unlike other battles, the participation of muslims was very weak and their procrastinations caused to be delayed in the preparation of the army and the move toward tabuk. some of the companions expressed one’s regrets for being unable to participate in this battle. in the sura of tawba, god exposes the intentions of these non-participants, expressing their real reasons f...

article uses this paper as its basis and includes workshop discussion comments. The purpose of this first battle management (alias, BatMan) workshop was to come up with three lists: (1) what problem-solving battle-management tasks the AI community knows technically how to do; (2) what tasks we can’t do and have little hope of doing before 1997; and (3) what tasks we think we might know how to d...

It was a bold move, given the deeply entrenched positions of many of Europe's ancient universities and education systems but optimism is growing that, by 2010, a European area of higher education might well be established. Ministers from this unprecedented collaboration, which now comprises 40 countries extending well beyond the EU into the Balkans and Eastern Europe, meet in Bergen this month ...

The familiar white urinals, puce-colored walls, and the queasy odor of disinfectant in M207—the men’s room on the mezzanine floor of the University of Pittsburgh’s medical school. I remember standing in a ragged line of seven young men across from the toilet stalls, pants stripped to my ankles. This was the moment, the crux of the clinical trial, the procedure that had seemed so trivial a few w...

The increase in the number of tobacco-caused deaths over the last 50 years is one of the most tragic developments in the modern history of medicine. The most common cancers globally are stomach cancer, with 669,400 cases diagnosed each year, and lung cancer with 660,500 new cases yearly (/). Those rates are not stable, however; lung cancer is actually overtaking gastric cancer. This is the situ...

Triage, or “to sort,” had its genesis in war. In battles marked by frontal assault tactics, fields were covered with the wounded and the dead during and after the battle. Until the Napoleonic wars, however, there was no triage: medical care was not routinely offered on the battlefield, and the survivors self-identified through the test of time. Separating the living from the dead then occurred ...

THE BATTLE FOR INFANT LIFE. To assist the Infants' Hospital, Vincent Square, in its battle for infant life, Princess Mary, its President, paid a visit on April 14 to inaugurate the pound scheme, which is an appeal to the nation for money for the general extension of the hospital, greater facilities for research, and many other improvements of which this excellent and progressive institution sta...