Clinical organ transplantation provides a way of giving the gift of life to patients with terminal failure of vital organs, which requires the participation of other fellow human beings and of society by donating organs from deceased or living individuals. The increasing incidence of vital organ failure and the inadequate supply of organs, especially from cadavers, has created a wide gap betwee...

PURPOSE To describe a case of bilateral presumed tuberculous choroiditis which resolved promptly with a short course of antituberculous therapy. CASE REPORT A 44-year-old lady presented with bilateral visual loss of 8 months'duration. Considering the presence of pan-uveitis, severe macular edema, multifocal leakage on fluorescein angiography, positive tuberculin skin test, and after excluding...

The State Board of Education meeting was held on Thursday, September 18, 2014, in the Grimes State Office Building, State Board Room, Des Moines, Iowa. The following State Board members were present: Charlie Edwards, Mike Knedler, Rosie Hussey, Mike May, Mike Bearden, Diane Crookham-Johnson, Brooke Axiotis, Mary Ellen Miller, Angela English, and Hannah Rens. Iowa Department of Education staff m...

Histoplasmin skin tests and dilated funduscopic examination for presumed ocular histoplasmosis were carried out on 842 individuals, aged 13 years and older, from Walkersville, Md. Seventy percent of the male and 51% of the female population were sensitive to the histoplasmin skin test; among reactors, males had a mean diameter of induration of 11.6 mm, and females had a mean induration of 9.7 m...

Under the Health Care Consent Act (HCCA), every person is presumed to have the capacity to make a decision with respect to his or her treatment, including a child, unless there are reasonable grounds to believe otherwise. A person will be considered capable to make decisions with respect to a treatment, if he or she is able to understand the information that is relevant to making a decision abo...