In a recent Viewpoint article, Nicki Jackson and Rachael Dixon examined a high school alcohol education programme called “Smashed” from public health and health education perspectives.
Obesity is a global epidemic linked to increased cardiovascular risk. In particular, increased visceral adiposity is associated with dyslipidaemia, insulin resistance, hypertension and higher cardiovascular risk.
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is an uncommon autoimmune disease following a group A streptococcal (GAS) infection.
Heart failure (HF) and reduced ejection fraction associated with an acute coronary syndrome (ACS) is associated with adverse prognosis.
Although vitamin B12 deficiency is a well-established cause of severe anaemia with macrocytosis in infants, severe thrombocytopenia has been less commonly reported.
This case highlights the diagnostic conundrum when women present with non-specific symptoms for a surgical acute abdomen in post-partum period.
Recorded human history has not followed a linear course. Nodal points of significant change have occurred, when the collective human consciousness has been focused by sudden positively progressive or devastatingly destructive events.
I am afraid that the title of this short paper of mine is not sufficiently explicit, but I had some difficulty in choosing a title at short notice which adequately expressed what was in my mind.