Dying later, surviving longer

Dying later, surviving longer.

Most children who die in the UK have an underlying chronic illness, and the majority of these deaths take place in a paediatric intensive care unit (PICU). The overall community burden of paediatric chronic illness is increasing as the population expands and as children with chronic conditions live longer. Improvements in public health measures, and in the recognition and management of paediatr...

Surviving on Planet CCRMA, two Years Later and Still alive

Planet CCRMA at Home [2] is a collection of packages that you can add to a computer running RedHat 9 or Fedora Core 1, 2 or 3 to transform it into an audio workstation with a low-latency kernel, current ALSA audio drivers and a nice set of music, midi, audio and video applications. It is also now a standalone distribution based on Fedora Core 3 which you can install by itself (without a previou...

Surviving a life-threatening 2,4-DNP intoxication: 'Almost dying to be thin'.

Uncoupled and surviving: individual mice with high metabolism have greater mitochondrial uncoupling and live longer.

Two theories of how energy metabolism should be associated with longevity, both mediated via free-radical production, make completely contrary predictions. The 'rate of living-free-radical theory' (Pearl, 1928; Harman, 1956; Sohal, 2002) suggests a negative association, the 'uncoupling to survive' hypothesis (Brand, 2000) suggests the correlation should be positive. Existing empirical data on t...

Dying

Professor Hinton is a psychiatrist who has made careful studies of the reactions of dying people, the awareness they have that they are dying, and the ways in which their doctors and nurses may help to bring them solace. His original work is deservedly much esteemed. It has lost nothing by presentation in this volume together with additional information on the circumstances, customs and attitud...