Eyes Wide Open

Amygdala: Eyes Wide Open

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Raising the CD4+ initiation threshold with our eyes wide open.

Eyes wide open: surgery to westernize the eyes of an Asian child.

January-February 2009 Douglas Opel and Benjamin Wilfond, discuss other real-life examples of cosmetic surgery in cognitively impaired children. They argue that it is all too easy—and wrong—to dismiss such procedures if the psychological benefit to the parents is clearer than the benefit to the child. “[E]xploring parental motivations and clarifying parental values may be precisely what is neede...

Eyes open, brain shut.

R E D IT R ecent progress in medical care has greatly increased the number of people who survive acute brain damage. Doctors can save the lives of many patients who suffer trauma to the brain (often after a road accident) or a lack of oxygen (for example, after a cardiac arrest or drowning), but if the damage is severe, the victim will slip into a coma. Individuals in this condition do not open...

Eyes wide open: an essay on developing an engaged awareness in global medicine and public health

BACKGROUND There is a growing understanding of the role social determinants such as poverty, gender discrimination, racial prejudice, and economic inequality play on health and illness. While these determinants and effects may be challenging to identify in parts of high-income countries, they are patently obvious in many other areas of the world. How we react to these determinants and effects d...