A healthy lifestyle lowers homocysteine, but should we care?

We Can, but Should We?

We can, but should we? After recently reflecting upon our profession as pediatric critical care physicians , I concluded that this one complex question gets asked many times throughout the day – or at least it should. A recent report discussed an emerging paradigm in pediatric critical care medicine (1). With more and more chronic patients filling our pediatric intensive care unit (PICU), perha...

Healthy lifestyle among primary health care professionals.

OBJECTIVE To assess 4 main determinants of healthy lifestyle (smoking, diet, physical activity, and body mass index) among primary health care professionals. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out between December 2012 and February 2013 where participants were selected using a stratified-random sampling method from 4 primary care centers in King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard...

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Professional attitudes: why we should care.

examining the media portrayal of doctors over the last twenty-one years, shows that more than twice as many negative articles are written as positive ones. Although the ratio remains unchanged over the period of the study, the authors noted that the language used to describe doctors appears to become more negative over time. In the UK the list of clinicians who have been seen to provide substan...

Why should we care about fly tumors?

Drosophila is proving to be a valuable model for studying aggressive tumors induced by the combined activation of EGFR and JAK-STAT signaling. Here we summarize some of the most recent data showing that tissue damage and the modulation of common pathway regulators are at the heart tumor progression and metastasis.