[Acute adrenal insufficiency: an entity that should not be missed].

Acute adrenal insufficiency is a rare pathology which can be life threatening if not diagnosed and treated adequately. Clinical presentation is aspecific. Etiologies are classified as central or adrenal origins.

Technologies of Crime Prediction: The Reception of Algorithms in Policing and Criminal Courts.

The number of predictive technologies used in the U.S. criminal justice system is on the rise.

[Interpretation of differential blood count : go for it !].

Differential blood count is an excellent complementary test to complete blood count, which allows analysis of the white cell differentiation and their morphologic particularity. As the tendency currently leads to targeted laboratory analysis, differential blood count provides a diagnostic and prognostic value in many clinical situations, notably in patients with an infection. Based on clinical cases, this article reviews the different white blood cell lines to provide key points for interpretation of qualitative and quantitative anomalies encountered in the daily hospital practice.

Hepatoblastoma in children aged less than six months at diagnosis: A report from the SIOPEL group.

Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate clinical characteristics, treatment, and survival of children, who were diagnosed with hepatoblastoma (HB) in their first 6 months of age, enrolled in the SIOPEL 2 and 3 protocols.

Methods: Seventy-nine patients, treated between 1994 and 2006, were analyzed after stratification into three age groups: <1 month, between 1 and 3 months, and between 3 and 6 months. All received preoperative chemotherapy.