Endocrine Abstracts

In 1739 Thomas Coram was granted a Royal Charter to establish the Foundling hospital for the care of abandoned babies. The hospital was established in Bloomsbury and had the patronage of leading cultural figures of the day, including William Hogarth and Handel. Babies were admitted by ballot (white ball in, red ball maybe and black ball rejected), given a new name and fostered until the age of 5. Upon admittance to the hospital they severed all contact with their foster parent...

The human eye is an incredible organ. It can differentiate contrasts of light up to 1:10,000, equivalent to a photographic exposure value (EV) range of 14. The eye can also adapt to any lighting situation, stretching the total perceivable range to 1:1 million. For many applications, we rely on the camera for recording what our eyes can see. But is the camera able to reproduce the full range of light intensities present in natural scenes? The human eye has two types of photorec...

In Northern Ireland, the sole tertiary referral centre for pituitary disease which includes neurosurgery and endocrinology for ~1.9 million people, is based in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast. A retrospective study has been commenced to examine clinical, biochemical, histopathological and radiological data for all patients operated on across an approximately 20 year period in Northern Ireland. Ethical approval was obtained from the Northern Ireland Biobank (study num...