Genitourinary Medicine staff knowledge about the risks of specific sexual behaviours in the transmission of HIV.

The aim of this study was to investigate the consistency of information about HIV sexual transmission provided by genitourinary medicine (GUM) staff to their patients. This staff group's knowledge of specific sexual risk behaviours was obtained using a self-administered anonymous 21-item questionnaire. Results for 106 respondents revealed considerable inconsistency amongst GUM staff's risk ratings of different sexual activities.

Upholsterers' glue associated with myocarditis, hepatitis, acute renal failure and lymphoma.

A 20-year-old man with heavy exposure to upholsterers' glue presented with life-threatening acute myocarditis, and then rapidly developed acute hepatic necrosis and acute renal failure. He made a rapid and complete recovery from this florid acute illness, only to present three months later with supradiaphragmatic non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. These illnesses have all been described in association with solvent exposure.