/library/oar/handle/123456789/46964 2025-11-14T12:56:35Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/45880 Title: Singing the blues and The Beatles Abstract: There is more to a histopathologist than meets the eye. And Dr. James De Gaetano is an ideal example. Meeting him after a long day in the laboratory, he explains the ins and outs of his profession with enthusiasm. 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/45872 Title: The Synapse : the Medical Professionals' Network : issue 05/08 Editors: Galea, Wilfred; Ellul, Ian C. Abstract: Table of contents: 1/ VASSALLO, P. - Pancreatic cancer -- 2/ AQUILINA, M. A. - A practical and comprehensive overview of PET/CT : part 1 -- 3/ MELILLO FENECH, T. - Update on avian influenza : september 2008 -- 4/ CASSAR, K. - Peripheral arterial disease : a terrible misnomer -- 5/ MALLIA, P. - Philosophy of medicine : is there such a thing? : part 2 -- 6/ SCERRI, C. A. - Familial Mediterranean fever : a common hereditary disease in Malta -- 7/ AZZOPARDI, M. - Singing the Blues and The Beatles. 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/45868 Title: Familial Mediterranean fever : a common hereditary disease in Malta Authors: Scerri, Christian A. Abstract: Familial Mediterranean Fever (FMF), also known as recurrent polyserositis, is an autosomic recessive disease affecting the inflammatory pathway Other related inherited conditions include hyperimmunoglobulinaemia D with periodic fever syndrome (HIDS) and the autosomal dominant Tumour Necrosis Factor Receptor-l-associated Periodic Syndrome (TRAPS), FMF is the most frequent of the group and as the name implies affects populations of the Mediterranean basin. 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/45866 Title: Philosophy of medicine : is there such a thing? : part 2 Abstract: If medicine had no philosophy, no ethos, then there is nothing to stop us from making profit the main principle and from considering the motive factor as morally correct. This would be relativism at its best. Even if paradigms may be the rule of the day, it does not mean they are always correct (and many, including myself, do not believe in Big Bang, a term which after all was coined by its great opponent Fred Hoyle. Many are blind however and continue to work notwithstanding many unanswered questions). What results is that we try to build an ethics which suits our needs, as scientists would try to work around experiments which prove rather than disprove a theory. 2008-09-01T00:00:00Z