Rotational head trauma with callosal contusion and C6 fracture: a high-speed motorcycle accident.

We present the case of a 34-year-old Albanian male who was riding a motorcycle when he collided at high-speed with a four-wheel vehicle. After a triple pivotal rotation in the air at the moment of impact, he fell from the motorcycle to the ground. The clinical picture thereafter was one of deep coma, treated in the intensive care unit for nine days, until he regained consciousness and long-term rehabilitation procedures were put in place.

Over 8 hours of sleep--marker of increased mortality in Mediterranean population: follow-up population study.

Aim: To investigate night and total sleep duration in relation to all-cause, cardiovascular, and non-cardiovascular mortality, controlling for recognized predictors of mortality in a population where the practice of siesta is common.

Methods: Our community-based sample included 1,842 residents (1,001 women) of a West Jerusalem neighborhood, aged 50 years and over. The study was conducted in the 1985-87 period, with a response rate of 85%.

Medical education in Albania: current situation and perspective, with reference to primary care.

A radical primary health care-oriented reform of the medical services in Albania is now under way, calling for adequate revision in medical education. The reform has started in 1994. In January 1997, the Department of Family Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Tirana, was established for the development of general practice and family medicine, and with it a new era in medical education in Albania has begun.