Grasp the nettle

Doctors, patients and the Internet: time to grasp the nettle.

The Internet, the fastest growing technology in society, has been driven by the public's hunger for fast, cheap communication. The modern patient increasingly presents to their doctor with an Internet diagnosis and treatment plan, obtained from a website with inaccurate or highly biased information. Doctors have limited access to the Internet in the workplace and often find it difficult to answ...

Reforming Food Aid: Time to Grasp the Nettle?

The international arrangements to underpin food security are in disarray. This matters because tackling hunger is central to the achievement of the international development targets for reducing poverty: the poorest 1.5 billion people in the world, living on less than $US 1 per day, typically spend 80% of their income on food (ODI Briefing Paper 1997(1)). Access to adequate food is a fundamenta...

Who will grasp the public health nettle in London?

The methodological nettle: ICT and student achievement

A major challenge for researchers and educators has been to discern the effect of ICT use on student learning outcomes. This paper maps the achievements in Year 10 Science of two cohorts of students over two years where students in the first year studied in a traditional environment while students in the second took part in a blended or e-learning environment. Using both quantitative and qualit...

Stinging nettle cream for osteoarthritis.

Stinging Nettle Cream for Osteoarthritis Keith Rayburn, MD, is a physician in the Department of Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, California. Eric Fleischbein, PharmD, is a pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy Services, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Jessica Song, PharmD, is a pharmacist in the Department of Pharmacy Services, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, and ...