Are the skills really integrated in coursebooks? A sample case- Yes You Can A1.2

Yes, you can make a difference.

Breastfeeding with diabetes: yes you can!

Before Your Baby Is Born Taking good care of yourself during pregnancy can help your baby to be healthy. You can also get ready for breastfeeding. Talk with your baby’s doctor about how to monitor your glucose levels after the birth. About half of babies of diabetic mothers may have low blood sugar soon after birth. If you have type 1 diabetes, discuss nighttime insulin dosages, calorie needs, ...

Are You ListeningIAre You Really Listening?

Objectives: This is the first of a series of articles addressing the concepts, tools, and resources that can be applied to an enormous performance gap in verbal communication among patients, families, frontline caregivers, physicians, and health care-organization administrative and governance leaders. Methods: This first paper takes a Bconcept-centric[ approach by laying the knowledge foundatio...

What Are You Really Thinking?

This note describes a response to the call for sonifications issued in connection with ICAD2004. The resulting piece is entitled " What are you really thinking? " 1. OVERVIEW The call for sonifications issued in connection with ICAD2004 presented a challenge to the scientific and artistic community: to convert to sound 36 channels of data (mostly electro­ encephalograms, but also heartbeat, res...

You have a disaster plan but are you really prepared?

T hroughout history disasters have caused destruction and injury and exacted a heavy toll of death and suffering. In just the past 20 years they have claimed the lives of over 20 million humans worldwide and caused property damage easily exceeding $500 billion. To date, the United States has not experienced a truly massive disaster with tens of thousands of human deaths, but hurricanes, fl oods...