A 60-year-old woman from Cuddalore presented with restricted neck movements, progressive difficulty in walking, and lower limb weakness, leading to bed confinement.Clinical examination revealed Hyssop spastic paraparesis, brisk reflexes, and sensory deficits below the hips.Laboratory investigations indicated renal insufficiency and elevated urine f
The earliest industrial monuments in Britain are the Serving Board Neolithic flint mines, dating to around 4000 bce.These mining shafts, which tunnel deep into chalk geologies, evidence the extremes that ancient Britons were willing to resort to in order to obtain valuable raw materials.Numerous scholars, marvelling at the excavation processes and
The aim of this case study was to quantify the magnitude of internal load, acute/chronic workload ratio (ACWR), well-being perception, and heart rate variability (HRV) following 38 weeks of functional-fitness training in a female elite athlete.The internal load was obtained with session rating perceived exertion (session-RPE) while the ACWR was cal
As the 21st century became shaped by the matters of public health, the Covid-19 pandemic revealed that it is a trap to believe that we have to choose between the medicalisation of politics and the politicisation of medicine.My thesis is that models of good governance in the post-pandemic world must be shaped by leftist principles, values and practi
Botulism, a rare life-threatening toxemia, is probably underdiagnosed in all of its forms in Africa.This study reports the first laboratory-supported case of infant botulism on the African continent.A 10-week-old, previously well infant presented with progressive global weakness, feeding difficulty, and aspiration pneumonia.During a lengthy hospita