Food — The ultimate weapon?

Hemoclip for hemorrhage after endoscopic sphincterotomy: an ultimate weapon?

Parasites in food webs: the ultimate missing links

Parasitism is the most common consumer strategy among organisms, yet only recently has there been a call for the inclusion of infectious disease agents in food webs. The value of this effort hinges on whether parasites affect food-web properties. Increasing evidence suggests that parasites have the potential to uniquely alter food-web topology in terms of chain length, connectance and robustnes...

Story power: the secret weapon.

OBJECTIVE The objective is to introduce story power as an untapped vehicle to inform, equip, and challenge leaders to drive change that can save lives, save money, and build value in communities through adoption of the National Quality Forum Safe Practices. METHOD A review of storytelling best practices from industry complemented findings from a direct survey of hospital safety leaders who pr...

The Weapon-Target Assignment Problem

"The ultimate diagnosis".

IN a short article in the British Medical Journal last year, a general practitioner recorded that one day the local postman said to him: "Doctor, most of those who pass away round here are patients of yours." It would certainly be true to say that many of those who have passed away in the Belmont area of Belfast during the past forty years were patients of mine, and this is a matter of mingled ...