A Daughter's Cry for Justice

Drowning: a cry for help.

IN this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Layon and Modell review current evidenced-based management of drowning victims who reach medical care. Modern resuscitation research of the drowning victim now spans decades. This review article expertly and comprehensively evaluates information resulting from that investigation; perhaps as important as that which is said, is that which is not said. Throughout t...

A Cry from Kenya

Dacrystic seizures—a cry for help

A 69-year-old man with a history of myocardial infarction presented with crying-like spells. MRI demonstrated abnormal signal in the left mesiotemporal lobe, and he was diagnosed with stroke. Over the following 1 year, he developed progressive cognitive decline, slow gait, masked facies, hypophonic voice, and brief facial and upper extremity spasms (8 per hour) often followed by brief crying sp...

Cry babies: A framework for chiropractic care

147 doi EYWORDS hiropractic; nfant behaviour; olic; leep disorder; nexplained infant rying Summary With 21% of parents taking their excessively crying infant to a healthcare professional, chiropractors are often selected to treat these infants. The personal, family and social costs of this crying syndrome are high, yet there is no agreed treatment protocol. A large number of studies have been a...

A CRY for help to fight fat.

OBESITY HAS BECOME a serious and growing public health problem (27). Attempts to develop new therapeutic strategies have focused mostly on energy expenditure and caloric intake. Recent studies link energy homeostasis to the circadian clock at the behavioral, physiological, and molecular levels (7, 17, 25). In fact, most aspects of physiology, including sleep-wake cycles, cardiovascular activity...