A Doctor’s Life Can Sometimes Be Hairy

How Hairy Can a Black Ring Be?

It has been shown recently that there is a large class of supersymmetric solutions of five-dimensional supergravity which generalize the supersymmetric black ring solution of Elvang et al. This class involves arbitrary functions. We show that most of these solutions do not have smooth event horizons, so they do not provide examples of black objects with infinite amounts of “hair”.

Can status epilepticus sometimes just be a long seizure?

Commentary Status epilepticus (SE) is a grave, life-threatening neurological emergency requiring rapid administration of definitive therapy to avoid irreversible brain injury (1), but it seems paradoxical that many children who experience it do surprisingly well. For instance, children who experience SE are no more likely to go on to develop chronic epilepsy than those who experience an ordinar...

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Can claims for 'wrongful life' be justified?

The authors reject Joseph Fletcher's arguments that the choice to procreate is a privilege and that parents may be responsible in certain circumstances for producing genetically defective children. They argue instead that procreation is a conditional right, but nonetheless conclude that parents may be held responsible for the "wrongful life" of genetically damaged offspring based on the legal ...

How can Alzheimer's Patients be Helped?

پرستاری از بیمار مبتلا به بیماری آلزایمر چندان ساده نیست. حتی اگر از این امر که اختلال رفتاری فرد نشانه ای از بیماری اوست، آگاه باشید، اکثر مواقع نمی دانید که چگونه باید با او رفتار کنید. در این مقاله روشهای مناسبی ارائه گردیده تا خانواده بیمار بتواند با ۱۰ اختلال رفتاری شایع در بیماران مبتلا بدون احساس ناامیدی و خشم سازگاری یابند.