Response of US psychiatric programs to the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact on trainees.

Background: Medical training program and hospital response to the COVID-19 pandemic has varied greatly and has impacted trainee well-being. Which factors have specifically related to trainee wellness, however, has not yet been examined in depth. The aim of the study was to understand trainee perspectives on the individual psychiatry trainee programs' hospitals' objective COVID-19 preparedness management.

Views of Foundation Doctors (year 2) on distress likely with genital examination in children.

Little is known about the attitude of newly qualified doctors towards intimate examination of children. During the 2 course of a training day in child protection, an exercise was undertaken to ask Foundation doctors (FY2) what impact they thought genitalia examination had on children. These responses have been compared with the only systematic examination of the response of children and their parents to such examinations that has been published.

Determination of the total protein and triglyceride content of human breast milk on the Synchron CX7 Delta analyser.

Background: Premature babies have improved clinical outcomes when fed breast milk with a relatively high protein content. Since there was no convenient way of measuring the macronutrition of breast milk we used our routine laboratory pyrogallol red dye binding method for cerebrospinal fluid microprotein (MTP) and our routine method for serum triglyceride to determine the total protein and triglyceride content of human breast milk.

Methods: The total protein contents of whole and defatted breast milk samples, randomly collected from 115 nursing mothers, analysed using a pyrogallol red dye binding assay on a Synchron CX7 Delta analyser were compared with the total protein contents determined by dry combustion analysis.

Blood lead in U.K. children--time for a lower action level?

1. Blood lead measurements in samples collected from 660 London schoolchildren during 1991 to 1992 suggest that the blood lead values in children in the U.K.

Recurrent abdominal pain and Helicobacter pylori in a community-based sample of London children.

Helicobacter pylori is accepted as an important factor in the pathogenesis of peptic ulcer disease. Infection is probably most commonly acquired in early life but there is still limited information on the prevalence or symptomatology of H. pylori infection in childhood.

An analysis of the normal ranges of lymphocyte subpopulations in children aged 5-13 years.

Unlabelled: Peripheral blood lymphocytes subsets were examined in 233 healthy school children aged 4.9-13.7 years at the time of examination.

Captopril for refractory hypertension in patients with impaired renal function.

The use of captopril in 19 patients with renal parenchymal disease and refractory hypertension was studied for a mean period of 12 months. There was a significant reduction in the systolic and diastolic blood pressures, with a reduction in the mean arterial pressure of 29 mmHg. The mean maintenance dose of captopril was 142 mg daily in three divided doses.

Pluralism, loss of identity: critical issues in Catholic health care.

Trustees, administrators, and staff members must keep in mind the obligations of their Catholic institutions to bear prophetic witness to Christian principles. The Catholic health care facility presents a counterculture in a depersonalized world.