Metastatic disease to the vertebral column can cause spinal instability, neurological
deterioration and pain. The present study was designed to provide insight into the cohort …

Background The practice of cement augmentation in pedicle screw fixation is well established.
However, there is a lack of consensus regarding the optimal screw design or cement type. …

… I am grateful also to Robert Edgerton and Lew Langness, the editors of Explorations in World
Ethnography, for first encouraging me to write about kuru, and to Dean Birkenkamp for his …

… Kuru is geographically restricted to the Okapa area of the highlands of Papua New Guinea
… cases of kuru have been documented since 1957 in a total population within the kuru region …

… Robert Klitzman helped establish the links between these rituals and kuru. What he …
Robert Klitzman was 21 years old when he was invited by the Nobel prize-winning scientist …

… kuru transmission was discovered by two anthropologists, Shirley Lindenbaum and Robert
… Papua New Guinea, years in which every attempt to unravel the cause of kuru had failed. In …

Visualization of peripheral nervous system axons and cell bodies is important to understand
their development, target recognition, and integration into complex circuitries. Numerous …

… Shirley was in Melbourne in 1964 and, over tea in her parents' home, she showed me the
genealogies of kuru-affected families that she and Robert had collected during their fieldwork …

… Robert and I then attended a kuru conference at Adelaide University, along with kuru …
papers on the recent spread of kuru among the Fore and the social impact of the disease. …

… kuru have been provided by Robert Glasse (9) and John Mathews (10). Of the more than 2700
recorded cases of kuru, … people of the kuru region decided that kuru had a psychosomatic …