Beating Round the Bush!

Teaching people about pain: why do we keep beating around the bush?

1 ISSN 1758-1869 10.2217/PMT.11.73 © 2012 Future Medicine Ltd Pain Manage. (2012) 2(1), 1–3 A frank approach to interpersonal communication brings with it some challenges, but having to dig oneself out of a hole, created by strategically avoiding the truth, is not one of them. This frank approach is well suited to science – the scientific process requires us to pursue and report the truth, the ...

Present and future perspectives on immunotherapy for advanced renal cell carcinoma: Going to the core or beating around the bush?

Metastatic lesions of renal cell carcinoma (RCC) occasionally regress spontaneously after surgical removal of the primary tumor. Although this is an exceptionally rare occurrence, RCC has thus been postulated to be immunogenic. Immunotherapies, including cytokine therapy, peptide-based vaccines, and immune checkpoint inhibitors have therefore been used to treat patients with advanced, metastati...

Killers in the bush.

Three senior Chief Executives of acute hospital trusts in the UK recently visited the Northern Territory (NT) and South Australia (SA) to study remote and rural health care in general – and Aboriginal health in particular. As with all other aspects of Aboriginal life, the subject of health status is highly charged and generates heightened emotions and intense political debate across the country...

Significance of the Family Bush

The Big Bush Machine by

In this paper we study an example-machine Bush(S, T ) where S and T are disjoint dense subsets of R. We find some topological properties that Bush(S, T ) always has, others that it never has, and still others that Bush(S, T ) might or might not have, depending upon the choice of the disjoint dense sets S and T . For example, we show that every Bush(S, T ) has a point-countable base, is heredita...