Thrive / Last Hour

The bee thrive.

Failure to THRIVE.

tive way of looking at incidents and accidents arising in high-risk environments [3]. He proposed that we look at work in terms of coupling and complexity of interactions. This approach has been applied to anaesthetic practice to break the chain of accident evolution [4]. The headline message from this is that when coupling is tight and complexity is high, the risk of a bad outcome is increased...

Failure to thrive.

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Prescient human fetuses thrive.

Fetal detection of adversity is a conserved trait that allows many species to adapt their early developmental trajectories to ensure survival. According to the fetal-programming model, exposure to stressful or hostile conditions in utero is associated with compromised development and a lifelong risk of adverse health outcomes. In a longitudinal study, we examined the consequences of prenatal an...

Last Word on Viewpoint: The two-hour marathon: What's the equivalent for women?

TO THE EDITOR: We thank our colleagues who commented (see Ref. 2) on the “The two-hour marathon: what’s the equivalent for women?” (5). In general the comments highlighted several important points. Exercise performance of women and the underlying physiological mechanisms deserves more attention. Noted by several commentaries (see Ref. 2), there is a dearth of data on the physiological limitatio...