Our changing Sun

Our Sun: the Nearest Star

Climate and the Changing Sun

Long-term changes in the level of solar activity are found in historical records and in fossil radiocarbon in tree-rings. Typical of these changes are the Maunder Minimum (A.D. 1645-1715), the SpSrer Minimum (A.D. 1400-1510), and a Medieval Maximum (c. A.D. 1120-1280). Eighteen such features are identified in the tree-ring radiocarbon record of the past 7500 years and compared with a record of ...

Behavioural medicine: changing our behaviour.

Human behaviour is a major determinant of health. Factors that influence health related behaviours and people’s adaptive responses to disease and illness are becoming better understood. This understanding is leading to behaviourally based interventions targeted at the level of the individual and at service delivery, with impacts on both. Yet there is much more to do. In the United Kingdom the S...

Changing epidemiology: does it increase our understanding?

During the last decade there have been a number of reports using routinely collected health care administration data and from large cohort studies that have attempted to describe changes in the occurrence and identify risk factors for the development of the condition along with reporting its associated mortality. This article identified all studies reporting the occurrence and mortality associa...

Changing our understanding of infant colic.

C OLIC IS truly a noisy phenomenon in terms of the crying that the infant does. But it is also a noisy phenomenon to study in terms of the basic phenomenonology of crying that constitutes the defining behavioral feature of the syndrome. As can be appreciated in Figure 3 in the article by Clifford et al in this issue of the ARCHIVES, even at 3 months of age, after most colic has resolved, there ...