The human body has been depicted in ancient cave‐paintings, in primitively sculpted figures,
and through all the ages in various forms of artistic expression. The earliest medical texts …

Chicken soup as a remedy has been much maligned because of its “old wive’s tale” label.
Chicken soup has sometimes been used to symbolize all home remedies; it is referred to often …

The proliferation of published material in the clinical and biomedical sciences has made it
difficult for clinicians to keep up-do-date with developments in specific fields, and conflicting …

SIR,-Dr A Nicol recommends that necropsy should become routine practice. Although most
pathologists recognise the value of the necropsy, 2 the rate of necropsy remains low. 3 In …

There are two distinct indices of maturity in the newborn—the clinical parameters which can
be observed at birth and the relationship of these parameters to the amount of time spent in …

It has been well recognized by geneticists and sociologists in Israel that the waves of immigration
which have occurred in the past two decades or so must have resulted in pronounced …

Editor: In a literature search conducted recently with MEDLINE at my institution’s library, I
came across a case that illustrates admira-bly the dangers of acronymophilia described by …

… The meeting agreed the general terms of reference handed down by the Board and elected
Tony McSeán as chair and Jenni Tsafrir as secretary. The group agreed to operate with a …

… Tsafrir, Jenni Soussi … 責任表示 Jenni Soussi Tsafrir …

The Evidence-Based Medicine movement, as launched at the beginning of this decade, has
proved to be a most controversial and extensively debated approach to the provision of …