Doctors need to know more about advance directives

What you need to know about advance directives.

Doctors Need To Know About Ascorbic Acid and Common Cold

Dykes and Meier mention the double blind study by Dahlberg, Engel, and Rydin 16 of 2,525 Swedish soldiers in a camp in northern Sweden during 90 days in 1941, and say that no differences were found in either the incidence or the duration of colds. The as-corbic-acid subjects (1266) received an average of 90 mg per day, and the control subjects (1259) received a placebo: Examination of the table...

More of What Chiefs Need to Know About Eyewitness Identification

The recent article by in Police Chief by Sheri H. Mecklenburg, Patricia J. Bailey, and Mark R. Larson titled “Eyewitness Identification: An Update on What Chiefs Need to Know” (July 2013) was a timely reminder that law enforcement agencies need to develop clear and defensible procedures for obtaining and documenting eyewitness identification evidence. A national survey of law enforcement agenci...

Advance directives to protect embryos?

T here is a growing consensus among scientists worldwide that embryonic stem (HES) cell research will lead to the development of therapies for common diseases or conditions that affect millions of people, including neurological disease or injury, diabetes, and myocardial infarction. HES cells are also valuable tools in understanding early human developmental processes, cell division and differe...

Insect trypanosomatids: the need to know more.

Of ten recognized trypanosomatid genera, only two - pathogenic Trypanosoma and Leishmania - have been actively investigated for any length of time while the plant flagellates - Phytomonas - have recently begun to attract attention due to their role as agricultural parasites. The remaining genera that comprise parasites associated with insects have been largely neglected except for two or three ...