A Lifeline for Syria's Science Exiles

A lifeline for primary care.

n engl j med 360;26 nejm.org june 25, 2009 2693 levels.1 Overloaded primary care practices, whose doctors are aptly compared to hamsters on a treadmill, struggle to provide prompt access and high-quality care. Three major factors contribute to this crisis. First, primary care physicians earn far lower incomes than procedural specialists, reducing career attractiveness for medical students with ...

A lifeline for battering parents.

A lifeline for lipid rafts?

In Focus • THE JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY S o far, defi nitive proof of the existence of lipid rafts in vivo has slipped through researchers’ fi ngers. Although their results probably won’t settle the debate over whether such structures exist, Toulmay and Prinz reveal that yeast produce raft-like domains in a surprising place (1). The original raft hypothesis held that the plasma membrane harbors ...

A Lifeline for Your Bottom Line

The lifeline express--a mobile ear clinic for rural India.

The objectives of this study were to review the application and feasibility of providing screening, diagnosis, medical and surgical treatment for patients with ear discharge by setting a mobile hospital in rural India. The study was retrospective. The study involved collection of data from 1992 to 2005 from patients with ear diseases. The number of patients operated on for ear conditions and th...