https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/46000 2026-03-14T02:15:05Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/46168 Title: Ordinary and extraordinary treatment : a case for review? Abstract: The recent Englaro case has again given rise to the controversy of keeping a person alive in a persistent vegetative state (PVS) by nutrition and hydration through a nasogastric tube. The last controversial case which made a similar outcry was that of Terry Sciavo in the United States. The question to consider is whether nutrition and hydration, especially after several years in a PVS constitutes an ordinary measure to keep a person alive or an extraordinary and/or heroic one. 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/46167 Title: Checkmate on joints Abstract: What do chess and rheumatology have in common? Not much at face value except that they are both part of the life of Dr Andrew Borg, Consultant Rheumatologist at Mater Dei Hospital and champion chess player. How did it all come about, fall in place? Certainly one square at a time. 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/46148 Title: Update on avian influenza : march 2009 Abstract: 2009, like in previous years, has seen the reoccurrence of confirmed human avian cases with 7 cases in China (4 died), 4 cases in Egypt, 2 cases in Vietnam and also 2 cases in Indonesia (both died). 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/46147 Title: Professor Basant K. Puri's Medical School talk : part 2 : fatty acids, depression, schizophrenia and Huntington's disease Abstract: Depression is claimed to be reaching epidemic proportions in the Western world, and many modern social factors have been blamed, such as job insecurity, isolation from family support, lack of religious belief, high divorce rate, stress from modern technology, pollution, the speed of modern life, and greater access to drugs and alcohol. 2009-03-01T00:00:00Z