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The article focuses on the contradiction related to the misconception regarding the use of vibrato, a musical effect in choral singing in Great Britain. It mentions that vibrato is an essential expressive device which were used by the singers and players in sixteenth and seventeenth century. It also mentions that Baroque string players do not use vibrato while singing.

Reports on a public demonstration by doctors, nurses, and other health specialists in Great Britain to protest against a possible war in Iraq. Participation in the demonstration by staff from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, members of Medact, the pressure group of health professionals, and the Medical Practitioners' Union; Health costs which could result from a war; Perception that health professionals have a role in speaking against the war to draw attention to likely health consequences.

Addresses the issue of age discrimination and health care. Guide published by the King's Fund in Great Britain; Lack of expertise in recognizing ageism as the problem; Statement that tackling age discrimination is low on the agenda for many health and social care organizations.

Reports that the Medicines Control Agency in Great Britain has recommended that children under 16 should not be given aspirin because of its links with Reye's syndrome. Previous ban for the use of aspirin in children under the age of 12; Recommendation for warning labels on aspirin products.

Background & Aims: Infants with complex medical conditions often display faltering growth due to elevated nutritional requirements, poor intake and intolerance of feeding with malabsorption and maldigestion. As a result their nutritional management can be extremely challenging and enteral nutritional support is required. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness, tolerance and acceptability of nutritional support with a specially formulated, paediatric peptide feed in infants with complex disease and signs of growth faltering with their current nutritional management., Methods: This prospective intervention study investigated gastrointestinal (GI) tolerance, nutritional intake and compliance with feeding, anthropometry and growth in 18 infants (mean age 6.11 months ± 4.69, mean weight 4.97 kg ± 1.71) during 28 days of enteral nutritional support with a paediatric (1 kcal/ml) readymade peptide feed., Results: GI tolerance to nutritional support with a peptide enteral feed was good and either improved or remained stable over the study. Compliance was excellent (94.0% ± 12.6), total energy intake improved (+23 ± 42 kcal/kg, p = 0.037) and mean weight (0.61 kg ± 0.31, p = 0.0001), length (1.89 ± 1.77 cm, p = 0.0001), head circumference (1.33 ± 1.29 cm, p = 0.001), weight for length Z score (p < 0.05), and weight for age Z score (p < 0.05) significantly improved. Sixty one percent (n = 11) of the infants showed signs of increased growth velocity, moving upwards in terms of their centiles. All 18 infants continued with the paediatric, peptide enteral feed once the study was complete., Conclusions: This prospective study showed that nutrition support with a specially formulated, paediatric peptide readymade feed was well tolerated, helped to promote growth, and can be considered suitable for use in infants with complex disease and faltering growth who are unable to tolerate a whole protein feed., (Copyright © 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.. All rights reserved.)