The aims embedded in the activities of the Sir Hugh Cairns Memorial Trust-to stimulate original work, to enable young people to travel and be exposed to work going on in centres overseas, and to prevent the isolation of neurosurgery from the wider aspects ofmedicine, reflect many of Sir Hugh Cairns' own precepts. It is therefore suitable to review some aspects of his personality and life-work, ...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, Cairns Hospital, Level 5, Block B, 165 The Esplanade, Cairns, Queensland, 4870, Australia Department of Medicine, Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Australia, and College of Medicine and Dentistry, James Cook University Cairns Campus, Cairns, Australia Department of Respiratory Medicine, Cairns Hospital, Cairns, Australia Department of Medicine, Cairns Hospital, Cairn...

Joanne Brown Program Leader, Alcohol Tobacco and othe Drugs Service, Queensland Health, Cairns. Ernest Hunter Regional Psychiatrist, Queensland Health, Cairns. Kate Conigrave Associate Professor, The University of Sydney. Peter d’Abbs Associate Professor, James Cook University, Cairns. John Boffa Public Health Medical Officer, Central Australian Aboriginal Congress, Alice Springs. Craig Gallagh...

a Biosecurity Sciences Laboratory, Biosecurity Queensland, Queensland Department of Agriculture, and Fisheries, Block 12, Health and Food Sciences Precinct, 39 Kessels Road, Coopers Plains Queensland, 4108, PO Box 156, Archerfield BC, Brisbane, QLD, Australia b Department of Agriculture andWater Resources, Building 114, Catalina Crescent, Airport Business Centre, Cairns Airport, Box 96, AAC Cai...

Sánchez, J.A. & S.D. Cairns. An unusual new gorgonian coral (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) from the Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Zool. Med. Leiden 78 (15), 27.viii.2004: 265-274, figs 1-8.— ISSN 0024-0672. Juan A. Sánchez & Stephen Cairns, Department of Systematic Biology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC-0163, Washington, D.C. 20013-7012, U.S.A. (email: c...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the current planned transfer of pregnant women from Cape York communities to Cairns at 36 weeks' gestation for birthing is medically appropriate. DESIGN AND SETTING Retrospective audit of travel details and demographic and obstetric outcome data on all women from Cape York communities who travelled to Cairns for late pregnancy care and birth at Cairns Base Hospi...

Welcome to the 14th Annual International conference on Computational Science, to be held 10th12th June 2014 in Cairns, Australia. Cairns is on the doorstep of Australian jewels including the Great Barrier Reef and the Daintree rainforest. For more information about Cairns and nearby attractions, see our location description. ICCS 2014 is organized by the University of Queensland, Universiteit v...