Does a distal radial fracture lead to osteoarthritis? Re-examining the evidence for early treatment.

There are many good reasons to improve the anatomy of a distal radius fracture, such as early return to function and avoidance of sigmoid notch incongruity or ulnocarpal impaction. It is often feared by patients, and portrayed by some authors of scientific articles and medicolegal reports, that a fracture of the distal radius has a propensity to cause symptomatic osteoarthritis. This article examines some of the current evidence and shares the authors' experience.

Synthesis and characterization of two self-assembled [CuGd] and [CuDy] complexes exhibiting the magnetocaloric effect, slow relaxation of magnetization, and anticancer activity.

Two new paths for coordination driven self-assembly reactions under the binding support of 2-((1-hydroxy-2-methylpropan-2-ylimino)methyl)-6-methoxyphenol (HL) have been discovered from the reactions of Cu(ClO)·6HO, NEt and GdCl/DyCl·6HO in MeOH/CHCl (2 : 1) medium. A similar synthetic protocol is useful to provide two different types of self-aggregated molecular clusters [CuGd(L)(HL)(μ-Cl)(μ-OH)(OH)]ClO·4HO (1) and [CuDy(L)(HL)(μ-Cl)(μ-OH)(ClO)(HO)](ClO)·2NHEtCl·21HO (2). The adopted reaction procedure established the importance of the HO and Cl ions in the mineral-like growth of the complexes, derived from solvents and metal ion salts.

Interprofessional practice: the path toward openness.

This article seeks to shed light on the meanings healthcare practitioners attach to practicing interprofessionally and how interprofessional relationships play out in "everyday" practice. It draws on findings from a hermeneutic phenomenological study of health professionals' lived experience of practice, interpreted in relation to Martin Heidegger's concept of a path through the dense forest which leads to an open space where there is no predefined path to follow. Analysis of data from in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 12 health professionals from medicine, midwifery, nursing, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, and social work suggests that health practitioners come upon the clearing having walked their own track toward practicing interprofessionally.

From tetranuclear to pentanuclear [Co-Ln] (Ln = Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho) complexes across the lanthanide series: effect of varying sequence of ligand addition.

Two new families of cobalt(ii/iii)-lanthanide(iii) coordination aggregates have been reported: tetranuclear [LnCoL(N-BuDEA)(OCCMe)(HO)]·(MeOH)·(HO) (Ln = Gd, 1; Tb, 2; Dy, 3; n = 2, m = 10 for 1 and 2; n = 6, m = 2 for 3) and pentanuclear LnCoCoL(N-BuDEA)(OCCMe)(MeOH) (Ln = Dy, 4; Ho, 5) formed from the reaction of two aggregation assisting ligands HL (o-vanillin oxime) and N-BuDEAH (N-butyldiethanolamine). A change in preference from a lower to higher nuclearity structure was observed on going across the lanthanide series brought about by the variation in the size of the Ln ions. An interesting observation was made for the varying sequence of addition of the ligands into the reaction medium paving the way to access both structural types for Ln = Dy.