Implementing a person centred collaborative health care model - A qualitative study on patient experiences.

Background: Collaborative Health Care (CHC) is a unique model in which ambulance services, home health care, hospital care and the national telephone helpline for healthcare in Sweden - Swedish health care direct (SHD1177) collaborate to provide the fastest possible health care for inhabitants living in eleven municipalities in western region of Sweden.

Aim: To explore how patients experience and perceive health care received in the CHC.

Method: Qualitative descriptive study using open-ended individual telephone interviews with fifteen community dwelling persons with experiences of care throughthe model CHC were conducted.

DETECTION OF AN ARENAVIRUS IN A GROUP OF CAPTIVE WAGLER'S PIT VIPERS ().

A group of eight Wagler's pit vipers () from a private collection died with respiratory signs within 6 mo of one another. The group consisted of an adult breeding pair that was wild caught and six offspring from this pair. Four of the dead snakes were submitted for gross and histopathology.

Auditory midbrain implant: histomorphologic effects of long-term implantation and electric stimulation of a new deep brain stimulation array.

Hypothesis: Chronic implantation and electric stimulation with a human prototype auditory midbrain implant (AMI) array within the inferior colliculus achieves minimal neuronal damage and does not cause any severe complications.

Background: An AMI array has been developed for patients with neural deafness and, based on animal studies, has shown to possess potential as an auditory prosthesis in humans. To investigate the safety of the AMI for clinical use, we characterized the histomorphologic effects of chronic implantation and stimulation within its target structure, the inferior colliculus.

"East side story": on being an epidemiologist in the former USSR: an interview with Marcus Klingberg.

Marcus Klingberg was born on 7 October 1918, in Warsaw, Poland, into a Hasidic, rabbinical family. After the Nazi invasion of Poland, he escaped to the USSR where he trained and worked as an epidemiologist from 1939 to 1945. For 35 years after the war, he continued his professional work in Israel.