Extra Supplement: The Harvest Feast. Four-Part Song

Conclusions to the Supplement, "Extra-Renal Complications of Cystinosis".

One of the founders of the field of inborn errors of metabolism, J. Edwin Seegmiller, once said, “Cystinosis is a durable, but perhaps not doable, problem.” Since he said that more than 50 years ago, great progress has been made in understanding this complex multiorgan, systemic disease. Now with genotyping readily available, a host of new questions can be asked, such as, why are some late comp...

Extra Protection for Pregnant Women: Calcium Supplement Reduces Blood Lead

Prenatal exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) impairs cognitive development in infants and children, according to numerous studies of these ubiquitous environmental pollutants. Studies of PCB damage have considered many different end points, but the results of these different studies have never been coordinated to pinpoint the neuropsychologic functions most likely to be damaged by pren...

The feast of the assumptions.

People vary. They vary in many things, but they certainly vary in their body size and composition, their energy expenditure, and their requirements for nutrients. Assessing the adequacy of diets for populations comprising such a variety of individuals requires tools, and the development of such tools has been a core function of public health nutrition over several decades. These tools have gone...

FEAST Workshop

The Guest at the Feast

I knew the risks when I asked the question, but the reward was too great. I was in the laboratory of a new university in the Persian Gulf. Four young women, each wearing a full burka, were working on a computer engineering project. PC boards covered the table, and laptop screens glowed with source code, yet the situation’s dynamics were clear. Computing was the guest at the feast, incorporated ...