Importance of accounting for sibling age when examining the association between family size and early childhood cognition, language and emotional behaviour: a birth cohort study.

Objectives: Larger sibships are associated with poorer cognitive and language outcomes but have different impacts on child emotional development. Previous studies have not taken into account sibling age, nor have impacts across multiple neurodevelopmental domains been considered in the same participant group. This study investigated the influence of family size indicators on early childhood cognitive, language and emotional-behavioural development.

Intra-operative hyperthermia in a cat with a fatal outcome.

History: A four year old male neutered Domestic Short Hair cat presented for general anaesthesia for hind limb orthopaedic surgery. The cat had been anaesthetized four days previously with propofol and isoflurane and made an uneventful recovery.

Physical Examination And Management: On pre-anaesthetic examination the cat had a temperature of 38.

Preliminary investigations into the analgesic effects of topical ocular 1% morphine solution in dogs and cats.

Objective: To perform preliminary evaluations into the ocular analgesic effect of topical 1% morphine in a clinical setting and to determine onset, duration and complications.

Study Design: Prospective, randomised, blinded clinical study.

Animals: Twenty six dogs and seventeen cats, all client-owned.

Voluntary health insurance in the European Union: a critical assessment.

The authors examine the role and nature of the market for voluntary health insurance in the European Union and review the impact of public policy, at both the national and E.U. levels, on the development of this market in recent years.