Dr Farsides entitles her editorial Palliative care-a euthanasia-free zone.' This is a misleading title in view of the fact that the whole of medicine and nursing in the United Kingdom and most of the rest of the world are currently euthanasia-free zones, for not only is it currently illegal in those areas, but also the professional organisations (for example the British Medical Association and ...

Celiac disease is a lifelong autoimmune disorder that effects nearly 1% of the United States’ population. Largely undiagnosed or misdiagnosed, celiac disease can present as physiological, psychological, or behavioral symptoms in children. Triggered by the presence of gluten, an item traditionally found in various products (e.g., food, school supplies, etc.), celiac disease is somewhat neglected...

During acute myocardial ischemia, there exists a zone of myocardial dysfunction that surrounds the central ischemic area that has been termed the functional border zone. We hypothesized that this nonischemic but dysfunctional myocardium may respond to an inotropic challenge. To address this issue, we studied 11 open-chest dogs during acute left circumflex (LCx) occlusion. Simultaneous two-dimen...

Zone plates are high quality optics that have the potential to provide diffraction-limited nano-focusing of hard X-ray free electron laser radiation. The present publication investigates theoretically the temperature behavior of metal zone plates on a diamond substrate irradiated by 0.1 nm X-rays from the European X-ray Free Electron Laser. The heat transfer in the optic is simulated by solving...