Jesudason and Weitz's article examines two public policy debates in California, where both sides of the debate used similar language that had the potential to be detrimental to women. Specifically, they show how anti-abortion crusaders in California used similar language to describe why women's rights should be curtailed as pro-choice advocates use when fighting for more choice and privacy for ...

Previous geoarchaeological research on the Akko coastal plain have contributed to understanding of ancient interface and added evidence as location/shift anchorages dating from Middle Bronze Age (beginning 2nd Millennium BC) Early Hellenistic period (mid century site Tel Akko. The present provides new insights into environmental changes likely anchorage sites along western edge in 1st BC (Iron ...

Nowadays, hereditary diseases are viewed through molecular mechanisms, and one of them, which keeps occurring rather frequently in medical publications, has been named after the Island of Mljet. The world first learned about mal de Meleda from a Dubrovnik physician Luka Stulli in 1826. He described it in a number of his island patients as a non-contagious hereditary skin disease, and named it m...

Following the footsteps of most other states, Massachusetts opened its Office of Patient Protection in January 2001. Established under what the media hailed as a “landmark” patients’ bill of rights, the Massachusetts legislature created a state agency empowered to review medical decisions made by health maintenance organizations (HMOs) that are challenged by patients. However, after opening its...

levant region (eastern mediterranean) has been of special importance in the history of commercial activities. in seventh/thirteenth century, two significant events influenced the development and prosperity of the commercial activities of this region, of which the most important were in the field of slave trade. first, the developments of the crusades, especially the fourth crusade (1204 ce) and...

An-80-year-old woman treated with allopurinol showed atypical target lesions with blister and erosions, which rapidly extended over the trunk and limb. She was diagnosed as Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (TEN). Despite the treatment with pulsed corticosteroids and i.v. immunoglobulins, the skin lesions rapidly extended over the entire body. Strikingly, the progression of blistering with stopped by ...