And so it goes...

As iron goes, so goes disease?

The brain iron overload disorders, collectively known as neurodegeneration with brain iron accumulation (NBIA), would seem to be tantalizing targets for chelation therapy. Efforts to lower brain iron in these disorders date back to the 1960s with deferoxamine mesylate, but systemic iron depletion limited its use. With the advent of chelators better able to specifically relieve central nervous s...

As goes Milwaukee's health, so goes Wisconsin's health.

As Local News Goes, So Goes Citizen Engagement: Media, Knowledge, and Participation in US House Elections

We propose a two-stage process to explain the relationship between the local news environment and citizen engagement. Our original content analysis of newspaper coverage in every US House district during the 2010 midterms reveals that districts with uncompetitive races and those served by large-circulation outlets see significantly less, and less substantive, coverage than hotly contested distr...

Make it so !

In this paper, we report on a project applying participatory design methods to include people who have experience of social exclusion (in one form or another) in designing possible technologies for e-(local)-government services. The work was part of a project for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in the UK, and was concerned with ‘access tokens’ that can provide personal identification fo...

So it is time

So it is time. I had rather hoped it would never come but, well now you have it, our journal has soon to start charging for publication. You see, for the past almost two years our generous publisher – OUP-has absorbed the costs of an incredible scientific output that has placed JHPS in the very forefront of publishing in the field of hip preservation surgery. Forefront? Let me show you. I did a...