USA UNIV.HEALTH NEWS - BELVOIR MEDIA GROUP;:POTASSIUM POISONING BY COCONUT WATER.

June 14,2016. Man who drank 8 cans of coconut water during exercise admitted with cardiac symptoms. Recovered with temporary pacemaker. Ingested approx 5,500mg K.

Los Angeles Times  Jan 15,2013 Mark Magnier on SENICIDE in TAMIL NADU (THALAIKOOTHAL) using Coconut water to euthanise unproductive aged.

PUBLIC HEALTH ENGLAND;HPR vol 10 issue 27:news (19 Aug.) EPIDEMIOLOGY OF INFECTIOUS SYPHILIS IN LONDON

2,811 new cases of Syphilis in 2015. 22% increase over 2014

London has 56% of national total. Incidence 3 x national rate.

2015: 32.9 / 100,000 LONDON

            9.3  /100,000 UK

90% London cases in male homosexuals.

UK FINANCIAL TIMES: PFIZER TO BUY MEDIVATION (founded 2004) for $14 bn,

MEDIVATION (California) makes XTANDI (enzalutamide) Androgen blocking agent used for metastases from Prostate cancer. Daily dose of 4 x 40mg caps. Ontario govt pays $9962 a month. Pfizer paid 30% premium on Medivation shares.

DAILY MAIL: INDIA PLANS TO PERMIT MORE PRIVATE MEDICAL SCHOOLS, COST OF COURSE Can$ 200,000

TAKEDA:Canada follows USA (2015) in approving proteasome inhibitor NINLARO (ixazonib) for :Plasma cell Ca. after one course of treatment

ORAL NINLARO will be combined with Calgene's ORAL REVLIMID ( lenalidomide) and ORAL dexamethazone.

DAILY MAIL: HARLEY STREET property of Late Jacqueline Lady Killearn (daughter of Tropical medicine expert & Dermatologist Sir Aldo Castellani) is on sale for GBP 10 million.

Lady Killearn , born in Ceylon, died in London in 2015 aged 105. Her husband was Ambassador to Egypt. Her mother was English. Her father, Prof (;later Sir) Aldo Castellani formulated fungicide Castellani's paint in 1905. Carbol-fuchsin topical soln USP. Born in Florence; died in Lisbon 1971 aged 97. Co-founded Int Soc Dermatology.

NEW YORK: BRAIN BEHAVIOUR RESEARCH FOUNDATION PREVALENCE SCHIZOPHRENIA

>1 % of world's population are schizophrenic. (Forced into community by Mental hospital closures.)

Late (1926-2002) UK Psychiatrist Dr Russell BARTON MBBS(Lond.1949). DPM (1954) MRCP (1959) wrote the 56 page INSTITUTIONAL NEUROSIS in 1959 (Third Ed. 1976) started movement of closing Psychiatric hospitals. Dr Barton was Phys.Sup. UK Severalls Hosp, Colchester. Moved to New York State where he was Dir Rochester Psych Center.