On Consumptive Family History

Dr. Young, on Consumptive Diseases

Plant resistance attenuates the consumptive and non-consumptive impacts of predators on prey

Plant resistance and predation have strong independent and interacting eff ects on herbivore survival, behavior, and patterns of herbivory. Historically, research has emphasized variation in the consumption of herbivores by enemies. Recent work, however, demonstrates that predators also elicit important changes in the traits of their prey, but we do not know how this is infl uenced by plant qua...

Comment on “Gastric cancer and family history”

Brief screening for family psychiatric history: the family history screen.

BACKGROUND Brief screens to collect lifetime family psychiatric history are useful in clinical practice and for identifying potential families for genetic studies. METHODS The Family History Screen (FHS) collects information on 15 psychiatric disorders and suicidal behavior in informants and their first-degree relatives. Since each question is posed only once about all family members as a gro...

Localized consumptive coagulopathy.

An 87-year-old man with an extensive past medical history was admitted for evaluation of intermittent hemoptysis of 1 month’s duration. During the hospitalization, he developed a large, subcutaneous bleed (Figure 1) after venipuncture. The patient had a known, expanding thoracic aortic aneurysm (Figures 2 and 3), and laboratory studies were consistent with an intravascular, consumptive coagulop...