Introduction This is the case history of MP, a 12 year old male who presented to hospital with a 2 week complaint of headaches,...

Diabetes, as we know, is more than just a "lifestyle illness". It is a tremendous burden on the Medical profession, and just as much (or...

Been a while, hasn't it? Never fear, for we are back; with a bang! First off, it's important for us to think of Consent as a process, not...

“OBEY your Mataji” is a clichéd phrase, but one near and dear to Prof Dilip Dan, 49, who, as a boy harvesting bananas and cutting grass...

So, here is the fabled return of a segment that made it's early appearances in our Newsletters. Let us know if you'd like it to stay....

Cardiac output increases or decreases in response to changes in heart rate or stroke volume. So how would venous return alter Stroke...

So, it's down to the wire again. That fateful time every Semester, where the palpitations and dyspnoea kick in, commensurate with...

Clinical Case Challenge: In the form of an ECG. A 27-year-old woman presents to her primary care provider for a routine physical...

Case Challenge (Taken from Medscape) A 10-year-old boy who emigrated from Guinea, West Africa, 6 months ago presents with splenomegaly...

Here's a go-to archive of our older Newsletters, from the beginning, right up to Issue 12, which has already been added. Links: Issue #1-...

Interview taken from UWI Today (Circa 2011): We were talking about obesity, diet, exercise and diabetes, and I figured I could get a few...

Every haem molecule will produce one molecule of bilirubin. These molecules are found in haemoglobin and myoglobin. Also, cytochrome...

History A 19-year-old man presents with a 2-day history of abdominal pain. The pain started in the central abdomen and has now become...

Know normal in order to be able to discern abnormal. Aortic Stenosis: Ejection Systolic Murmur (Crescendo-Decrescendo) Heard loudest at...

In the glomerulus, the primary urine is filtered from the blood, which flows through the capillaries of the glomerulus. With the...

CXR interpretation. The crux of a Post-Call Ward round, and perhaps the bane of one’s existence. No more. D – Demographics Before you...

The capillaries of the unit deliver mixed venous blood with a low partial pressure of O2 (Pv¯O2). The partial pressure of O2 (PO2) in the...