Series on Health
Series on Health is a series of monographs authored by external or in-house experts on the subject of health.
Born Too Soon
1 January 1993
Preterm birth is a major world health problem. Statistics show the significant numbers of perinatal deaths due to preterm birth and the disproportionate numbers of children…
Chronic Venous Diseases of the Leg
1 December 1992
This report is about varicose veins and the range of venous diseases of the legs, including chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) and venous ulcers, that people with…
Dementia
1 September 1992
Dementia is a condition whose causes are poorly understood, which cannot be cured and for which current treatments of symptoms have at best marginal effects. Dementia…
Drug misuse
1 April 1992
Throughout history the desire to experience an altered state of consciousness can be seen to have been part of the essential nature of man. In all…
Arthritis
1 March 1992
Arthritis is a common and chronic disease with over 200 conditions included in this category. It affects every tenth inhabitant of the world according to the…
Depression
1 March 1992
Depression has been defined as the persistent and sustained feeling that the self is worthless, the world meaningless and the future hopeless. There is a world…
Parkinson’s Disease
1 October 1991
The prospects for Parkinson’s sufferers have improved immensely with the advent of new drug treatments. More recently the notion that transplantation could, either wholly or partially,…
Migraine
1 September 1991
‘Choose something common and you will find little is known about it’ (Henry Head to the young Dr Russell Brain c 1920). Although common (8 per…
Organ Transplantation
1 July 1991
Organ transplantation is one of the most spectacular medical achievements of this century. The first successful human transplant operation took place in Boston, in 1954, when…