If only it was as simple as bugs

Salt-sensitive hypertension: if only it were as simple as rocket science.

Same as It Ever Was, Only Worse: Negative Life Events

This study is a qualitative grounded theory examination of the preand post-Katrina life of hurricane survivors. Forty heads of households with school-age children who lived in New orleans during Hurricane Katrina were interviewed 6 to 8 months apart. Findings suggest that low-income study participants had experienced multiple negative life events linked to their poverty status prior to Hurrican...

Population strategies for prevention? If only it were that simple!

As Depressing As It Was Predictable?

In recent years lung cancer specialists have complained that due to stigma resulting from the association of the disease with smoking, theirs is a neglected field. This paper demonstrates that in the 1950s and 1960s, when the British Medical Research Council (MRC) started to organize clinical trials for various forms of cancer, this was not the case. Rather, the organizers of these trials saw l...

If it was good enough for Aristotle......

‘If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday ’ wrote the American novelist Pearl Buck, and such is the challenge facing those who hope to disentangle the pathogenesis of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). The disease is characterised by the insidious but progressive development of fibrosis that culminates in respiratory failure and death, usually within 5 years of diagnosis. ...