https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/12449 2026-07-19T03:01:13Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/12983 Title: The Synapse : the medical professionals' network Editors: Galea, Wilfred; Ellul, Ian C. Abstract: Apart from the normal articles regarding medicine, this issue contains also the following: Entertaining guests successfully - Massimo Azzopardi 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/12981 Title: Diagnosis of Coeliac disease : an update Authors: Cilia Vincenti, Albert Abstract: Overall prevalence rate of coeliac disease in both children and adults in the western world is quoted at 1% although some groups have reported a five-fold increase in children when compared to adults. The disease is more prevalent than first thought in Eastern Europe and Asia, with as many as 1% of Latvians and 1.44% of north Indians testing positive with routine screening serology. The rise is largely attributed to increased awareness and education resulting on average in 16% annual increases in serological testing for coeliac disease.1 Large scale studies of healthy school children from Eastern Europe and North Africa have reported prevalence rates similar to those in the western world of between 0.4 and 1.1%. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/12979 Title: Endometrial imaging Authors: Vassallo, Pierre Abstract: The endometrium demonstrates a wide spectrum of normal and pathologic appearances throughout menarche as well as during the prepubertal and postmenopausal years and the first trimester of pregnancy. Characteristic morphologic changes take place in the uterus and endometrium over time. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/12978 Title: Richard Ellis : the man, his times & his pictures Authors: Azzopardi, Marika Abstract: We’ve all seen them – pictures of Malta from days gone by, from centuries gone by. All signed by a man who photographed Malta like no other – Richard Ellis. Marika Azzopardi meets his great grandson Ian Ellis in the Ellis photographic archives which house somewhere between 36,000 and 40,000 images. This allowed the author some insight on the man, his times and his pictures. 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z