Childhood Metabolic Syndrome: Must we define it to deal with it?

Sleep health: can we define it? Does it matter?

Good sleep is essential to good health. Yet for most of its history, sleep medicine has focused on the definition, identification, and treatment of sleep problems. Sleep health is a term that is infrequently used and even less frequently defined. It is time for us to change this. Indeed, pressures in the research, clinical, and regulatory environments require that we do so. The health of popula...

Must We Value Life to Have a Right to It?

In her recent article "Death, Mis­­ fortune, and Species Inequality,"l Ruth Cigman gives clear, careful expression to an argument which seems well on its way to becomi ng a classic among opponents of animal rights. 2 Cigman's argument runs as follows: A right to X entails the right to be protected against certain actions which will result in the misfortune, or possible misfortu ne, of not-X. A ...

The diabetes dilemma: how do we deal with it?

Antipsychotic drugs and metabolic syndrome--can we prevent it?

Macroscopic Local Realism: How Do We Define It and Is It Compatible with Quantum Mechanics?

We introduce the concept of different orders (microthrough to macro-) of local realism. ``Macroscopic local realism'' states that events occurring at a location B cannot induce (immediate) macroscopic changes to a system at a location A spatially separated from B. ``Local realism'' in its entirety excludes all sizes of change. ``Local realism'' in its entirety is used by Einstein, Podolsky, and...