A dementia education scheme.

The Cornwall dementia and communication difficulties education scheme is a simple strategy to enable provision of more effective and appropriate care to patients with memory and communication difficulties throughout healthcare settings in Cornwall. An acute hospital audit found that the scheme improved awareness, documentation and care of this patient group. The scheme has become the basis of Cornwall's dementia strategy.

Severe hypercalcaemia mimicking acute myocardial infarction.

Significant hypercalcaemia can cause electrocardiogram (ECG) changes mimicking an acute myocardial infarction. It is important to recognise that some ECG changes are due to conditions other than cardiac disease so that appropriate treatment is given, and importantly, inappropriate treatments are avoided.

Packed protein bilayers in the 0.90 A resolution structure of a designed alpha helical bundle.

A 12-residue peptide designed to form an alpha-helix and self-associate into an antiparallel 4-alpha-helical bundle yields a 0.9 A crystal structure revealing unanticipated features. The structure was determined by direct phasing with the "Shake-and-Bake" program, and contains four crystallographically distinct 12-mer peptide molecules plus solvent for a total of 479 atoms.