Opioids and cancer survival: are we looking in the wrong place?

Are We Looking in the Wrong Place? Implications for Behavioural-Based Pain Assessment in Rabbits (Oryctolagus cuniculi) and Beyond?

BACKGROUND Successful observation of behaviour depends upon knowing both which behaviours to look for and focusing on the appropriate areas of the body to observe them. Behaviour based scoring systems have become increasingly widely used to assess animal pain and distress. Although studies are available demonstrating which behaviours need to be observed, there has been little attempt to assess ...

What determines the duration of patient medication compliance in patients with chronic disease: are we looking in the wrong place?

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to do a pilot inquiry, to determine whether physicians with similar practices in the same neighborhood demonstrated any difference in the duration of compliance among their patients. METHODS Through a cooperating urban community pharmacy, patients with prescriptions for hypertension and type II diabetes were identified for this pilot study. Patients ...

How are we looking after prostate cancer?

Evaluating welfare reform in an era of transition: Are we looking in the wrong direction?

In February 1996, the Institute for Research on Poverty and the National Center for Children in Poverty organized a national conference on the future of research and evaluation in light of the potential transfer of responsibility for welfare policies and programs to the states. The mood among participants was palpably pessimistic. If the locus of responsibility was shifted from the federal gove...

Sex differences in Alzheimer's disease risk: are we looking at the wrong hormones?

Two-thirds of individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are women, owing largely to the fact that women outlive men (https://www.alz.org/ downloads/facts_figures_2012.pdf). Women’s increased longevity, however, is not sufficient to explain the fact that women are 1.5 times more likely than men to develop the disease (Gao et al., 1998). After age 80, the incidence of AD is much higher in women t...