This publication presents general guidelines for exercise prescription that have an anatomical basis but also consider the exerciser's ability to do the exercise correctly. It reviews various common questionable exercises, explaining how some exercises, especially those designed for flexibility and muscle fitness, can cause harm. Safer…

This handbook has been developed as a resource to be used by peer/community educators and mobilisers conducting HIV/AIDS prevention programmes in the informal sector workplaces and surrounding communities in Uganda. The handbook provides basic information on a range of topics on HIV and other sexually transmitted infections that can be used by…

Conclusion of a continued article. (RL)

Analyzed were 147 patients (between 3 and 20 years) with hydrocephalus (an accumulation of fluid in the brain) who had been treated by valve regulated ventriculovenous shunt to determine the relationship between early surgical intervention and later IQ. (DB)

Treats the theme corpse bleeds when murderer touches it'' found in folk literature and in many Spanish works. (DS)

Three major classes of review articles identified are: (1) annual review, (2) critical review, and (3) data compilations. The role and control of the review article in medicine is described. (23 references) (Author/NH)

Better planning in national food and exercise policy is neeed to improve American's health and life expectancy. Regulation of chemicals in the food and general environment is needed, together with improved social planning. (AL)

Causes of Boolean failures to retrieve relevant MEDLARS index references are: search formulator failed to include important terms, indexer failed to include important terms, and misunderstanding of user's needs. On the evidence of this test the Probabilistic search is at least a partial solution to these problems. (8 references) (Author/NH)

While glaucoma generally strikes those over 35 years of age, awareness of glaucoma should be promoted in junior and senior high school and college by incorporating information into a unit on eye health or chronic diseases. (MJB)

The Waldo General Hospital Podiatric Residency Program, designed to be an intense, "well-rounded," multifaceted, single year of postgraduate practical training for the podiatric physician, is described. Surgical training, internal medicine, "outside rotations," in-hospital rotations, and meetings and lectures are discussed. A…

A number of statements about well-established information in veterinary anatomy are debated and refuted: (1) sesamoid bones change the direction of tendons, (2) tendons are composed of collagenous connective tissue, (3) anal glands are synonymous with anal sacs, (4) reciprocal apparatus is part of stay apparatus, etc. (Author/MLW)

Describes the subdivisions of the human peri-Sylvian language cortex which were determined by stimulation mapping during craniotomies of four adult patients. (SA)