World Schizophrenia Day falls on 24 May. Schizophrenia is a devastating brain disorder affecting about 1% of the population worldwide. With typical onset in late adolescence and early adulthood, it is for most patients a chronic relapsing psychotic illness, with persisting cognitive deficits that impair return to premorbid social and...

World Schizophrenia Day falls on 24 May. Schizophrenia is a devastating brain disorder affecting about 1% of the population worldwide. With typical onset in late adolescence and early adulthood, it is for most patients a chronic relapsing psychotic illness, with persisting cognitive deficits that impair return to premorbid social and...

The World Health Organization asserts that uncorrected refractive errors are the second leading cause of blindness globally and the main cause of low vision. High myopia, defined as being greater than –6.0 dioptres is associated with primary open-angle glaucoma, retinal pathologies such as retinal detachment and cataract. Lin et al5...

In March and April 2009, Mexico started experiencing an epidemic of influenza-like illness and on 17 April 2009, the novel strain of influenza A (H1N1) was identified. This virus appears to have resulted from genetic re-assortment of influenza viruses from swine, avian and human sources. As of 6 August...

Recent studies have linked certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the LRRK2 gene with familial and sporadic Parkinson’s disease (PD). Interestingly, there appear to be important population differences in the contribution of these SNPs to the risk of PD occurrence. The G2019S variant is very common amongst Ashkenazi Jews...