Getting Our Own House in Order

Getting out of our own way.

This paper, a follow-up from a 2009 panel discussion at ABCT's Annual Convention, focuses on the choices that women make (or don't make) that can affect their careers. Women are particularly prone to feeling guilty about their choices, and while a few decades ago there was a great deal of sexism in the workplace, at this point in time, I believe that we are more likely to make assumptions that ...

Putting our own house in order: examples of health-system action on socially determined health ineualities

Making Our Own Luck

QuickCheck-style property-based random testing [4] requires efficient generators for well-distributed random data satisfying complex logical predicates. Writing such generators by hand can be difficult and error prone. We propose a domain-specific language, Luck, in which generators are expressed by decorating predicates with lightweight annotations controlling both the distribution of generate...

Influenza: getting our attention.

Influenza has become an increasingly frequent topic in the news and medical literature. Although the 1918 influenza pandemic killed more people than died during the first World War, for much of the 20th century, the disease was considered of interest primarily during the winter months, as emergency departments and hospitals filled with sick patients. Less than a decade ago, few pediatricians in...

Ancestor to Call Our Own

Controversial new fossils could bring scientists closer than ever to the origin of humanity POITIERS, FRANCE—Michel Brunet removes the cracked, brown skull from its padlocked, foam-lined metal carrying case and carefully places it on the desk in front of me. It is about the size of a coconut, with a slight snout and a thick brow visoring its stony sockets. To my inexpert eye, the face is at onc...