German clefts address unexpected questions

Using databases to address important but neglected clinical questions.

The rate of cesarean sections has been increasing substantially over the last several decades, and, accounting for approximately 27.5% of deliveries in the general population in 2004, is much higher than the target rate of 15% established in 1991 as a United States health objective for the year 2000 [1, 2]. There are a number of intertwined medical and societal explanations for the increased ra...

Cancer: the big questions to address in coming years.

Research Designs That Address Evolutionary Questions about Medical Disorders

Diseases result usually from webs of interacting causes of enormous complexity, while human minds seek explanatory principles of extraordinary simplicity. This conflict gives rise to a central problem for medicine. Explanations of disease, and most programmes of medical research, tend to emphasize a single cause, while most diseases result from multiple environmental factors interacting with se...

Animal Memory: Rats Can Answer Unexpected Questions about Past Events

A new study has found that rats are able to answer, in a hippocampus-dependent manner, unexpected questions about whether they recently ate food or not. The results highlight potential shared mechanisms for remembering personal events in rats and humans, and offer new insights into the nature of animal memory.

The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model

The Unexpected Appearance of a New German Model Most Continental European labour markets and welfare states underwent a substantial transformation over the last two decades moving from a situation of low employment and limited labour market inequality to higher employment, but also more inequality. Germany is a case in point as it exhibits growing employment figures and growing shares of low pa...