A heartbreaking story that misses the point

Nutrient supplements and cardiovascular disease: a heartbreaking story.

Observational data have identified associations between carotenoids, folic acid, and vitamin E, or metabolites altered by these nutrients, and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. Despite biological plausibility, for the most part, data derived from nutrient supplement trials using moderate to high doses of single nutrients or nutrient combinations (exceeding amounts to avoid nutrient deficiency)...

Noakes misses the point.

An Account of Mapp v. Ohio That Misses the Larger Exclusionary Rule Story

∗ E.E. Overton Distinguished Professor of Law and Alumni Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law. My thanks to Joshua Dressler for inviting me to review this book. 1 Hudson v. Michigan, 126 S. Ct. 2159 (2006). In Hudson, Justice Scalia’s opinion for the Court opined that one should not assume that there is a need to deter police misconduct by excluding unc...

the archetype of mother: a never-ending story retold by poe

investigation the archetype of mother can help the reader to understand poes works, especially his fiction, better, if not fully. motivated by internal and external drives to get into the universe in its manifold form poe was impelled to art and, from various modes of art, to symbolism. how much was poe successful to produce works of art has been a matter of dispute among critics. however, ther...

Heartbreaking case of acetaminophen poisoning.

A 23-year-old woman was brought to the emergency room after ingesting 50 g of acetaminophen. Her blood acetaminophen level was 158 mg/L, and she later developed fulminant hepatic failure. Sixty-three hours after ingestion, ECG displayed signs suggestive of acute ischemic injury (Figure 1A). Serum enzymes revealed a Troponin-I of 227.2 ng/mL. The patient’s declining clinical status precluded a c...