Four million patients who failed to attend

Living our mission. Healing is mutual for nurses who attend to their patients lovingly.

Dr. Perry is associate professor, Centre for Nursing and Health Studies, Athabasca University, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. W hat does it mean to "live one's mission" as a caregiver in a Catholic health care institution? Dur ing three years I spent as a clinical nurse educator in a Catholic hospital, I often asked nurses to tell me about those times in their careers when they felt satisfied that ...

Efficacy of Subcutaneous Methotrexate in JIA Patients Who have Failed to Improve with Oral Methotrexate

Methotrexate is the most commonly used disease modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARDs) for rheumatoid arthritis1. However, some patients are intolerant to oral MTX despite folate supplementation and some patients do not respond adequately2. The route of administration of MTX in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) is not standardized and varies according to patient’s and treating ph...

Finding Four Million Large Random Primes

Nearly four million Californians are food insecure.

Food insecurity has increased significantly among low-income Californians over the last decade. According to data from the 2009 California Health Interview Survey, 3.8 million adults in households with incomes at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL) could not afford enough food at least once in the previous year. Low-income households with children and Spanish-speaking households su...

Four million years of African herbivory.

The vast African continent is an ecological stage with ever-changing scenery and casts of characters that included human ancestors. The mammals that came and went upon this stage have been enlisted to help answer a compelling question relevant to our own evolutionary story: How do land animals respond to long-term environmental change? The paper by Cerling et al. (1) is a milestone in this ques...