Acquisitions Archaeology-What Are Our Obligations (These Days)?

What Mosquitos Smell These Days

[What is a reproduced pterygium these days?].

Figura 1 – Pterigios reproducidos. A) Pterigión evidentemente reproducido. B) Postoperatorio con congestión conjuntival intensa en paciente sintomático esde épocas remotas el pterigión se ha definido como una roliferación fibro vascular de la conjuntiva que invade la córea y ha sido objeto de numerosos estudios en medicina que atan desde 1.000 a. C. En la India, Susruta, considerado como l prim...

Social dominance, school bullying, and child health: what are our ethical obligations to the very young?

BACKGROUND Recent research shows that by age 5, children form rigid social hierarchies, with some children consistently subordinated, and then later, bullied. Further, several studies suggest that enduring mental and physical harm follow. It is time to analyze the health burdens posed by early social dominance and to consider the ethical implications of ongoing socially caused harms. METHODS ...

Pandemic influenza: are we prepared to face our obligations?

After decades of low personal risk for contracting lethal diseases, physicians are suddenly facing the possibility of a substantial increase in occupational risk during an influenza pandemic. If they are not confronted before the onset of an influenza pandemic, feelings of unease and fear or ignorance about physicians' professional obligations could profoundly hinder individual physicians in fu...

These are the days of lasers in the jungle

For tropical forest carbon to be commoditized, a consistent, globally verifiable system for reporting and monitoring carbon stocks and emissions must be achieved. We call for a global airborne LiDAR campaign that will measure the 3-D structure of each hectare of forested (and formerly forested) land in the tropics. We believe such a database could be assembled for only 5% of funding already ple...