Anti-dementia medications: Fighting a losing battle?

The Mediterranean diet for Polish infants: a losing struggle or a battle still worth fighting?

The Mediterranean diet is well known for its health-promoting effects. Among its key ingredients, olive oil is the most characteristic. Processing industries have been successfully manufacturing and marketing jarred baby foods with the use of vegetable oils, including olive oil, as well as other sources of visible fat. We aimed to survey manufacturer claims concerning added fat in jarred infant...

Training and cultural context in the Arab Emirates: fighting a losing battle?

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the delivery of corporate objectives in customer service in the training of employees in a cultural context at odds with the proposed training outcomes. Design/methodology/approach – A training program created to encourage collaborative and competitive styles in customer interaction, delivered in a major bank in the UAE, was the focus of the cas...

Internal network dynamics prolong a losing battle

Fights-to-the-death occur in many natural, medical and commercial settings. Standard mass action theory and conventional wisdom imply that the minority (i.e. smaller) group’s survival time decreases as its relative initial size decreases, in the absence of replenishment. Here we show that the opposite actually happens, if the minority group features internal network dynamics. Our analytic theor...

Is INH waging a lonely losing battle.

The Updated National Guidelines for Pediatric Tuberculosis in India, 2012, [1] has rightly emphasized, at length, the need for becoming more aggressive in our treatment of pediatric tuberculosis (dropping out 3 drugs from all regimens i.e. HRZ). The area of chemoprophylaxis, however, has been left untouched [except for raising the dose of INH to 10 mg/kg/day). We all know and accept that resist...

Are we losing the TB battle?