If you only have a few minutes with a drug addict

If you only have a few minutes with a drug addict.

I was going through a particularly bad time some years ago when I went to my general practitioner to try and get a prescription for diazepam (Valium). I had been buying it illicitly for some time so knew that I had a problem and genuinely wanted help. I also knew that most GPs were reluctant to prescribe this type of drug because it is so open to misuse. I had a pre-prepared script ready to use...

You only notice them if you understand them: Geriatric syndromes.

Ageing is acknowledged to result from a lifelong accumulation of molecular and cellular damage, caused by many mechanisms that are regulated by a complex maintenance and repair network. Multimorbidity and polypharmacy are the results of our good standard of care for ageing persons as present in many Western societies. Many healthcare expenses and efforts are currently devoted to providing healt...

"If you have a heart attack, just cough".

Poster Abstract: If You Have Time, Save Energy with Pull

We analyze push and pull for data collection in wireless sensor networks. Most applications to date use the traditional push approach, where nodes transmit sensed data immediately to the sink. Using a pull approach, nodes store the data in their local flash memory, and only engage in communication during dedicated collection phases. We show how one can transform an existing push-based collectio...

If you have said A, you must also say B: is this always true?

“Dissecting Bioethics,” edited by Tuija Takala and Matti Häyry, welcomes contributions on the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of bioethics. The section is dedicated to the idea that words defined by bioethicists and others should not be allowed to imprison people’s actual concerns, emotions, and thoughts. Papers that expose the many meanings of a concept, describe the different readings o...