1560 Parental Supervision may not be Enough in Preventing Accidental Poison Ingestion in Children

Accidental ingestion of pipamazine in young children.

Accidental ingestion of magnetic spheres in children.

Magnetic foreign body ingestion can have a very serious sequale if multiple or combined with another metal object inside the abdomen. We report 2 cases of ingestion of rare-earth magnets with a very different consequences. This adds to the world's literature on this topic.

Reversing the Effects of Early Deprivation after Infancy: Giving Children Families may not be Enough

Because the human infant is born so motorically immature, for many months she must depend on caregivers to provide varied stimulation. At birth she cannot hold her head up, roll over, or even reliably bring her hands to mouth. Developing the ability to reach out and grasp objects is a skill the takes months to achieve and she will not be able to pull herself to standing, crawl or walk until the...

Proportion congruency effects: instructions may be enough

Learning takes time, namely, one needs to be exposed to contingency relations between stimulus dimensions in order to learn, whereas intentional control can be recruited through task demands. Therefore showing that control can be recruited as a function of experimental instructions alone, that is, adapting the processing according to the instructions before the exposure to the task, can be take...

When a little aspirin may be enough.

In this issue of Blood, Larocca et al in a large prospective study show that thromboprophylaxis with low-dose aspirin is very effective in previously untreated myeloma patients with a low thromboembolic risk receiving lenalidomide with low-dose dexamethasone.