BURNS are among the most common accidental injuries of infants and children and, when extensive, have mortality rates in excess of 50 per cent. When the burned area involves more than 20 or 30 per ...

New research findings show how higher viscosity, or resistance to flow, of the extracellular fluid that surrounds cells enables cancer cells to migrate more rapidly from a primary tumor to other sites ...

IN normal man osmolality, or concentration of osmotically active solutes in body fluids or total body water, is remarkably constant despite large variations in water and solute intake and excretion.