Weighty questions

Obesity: a weighty issue for children.

Background: Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in American men, and few effective treatment options are available to patients who develop hormone-refractory prostate cancer. The molecular changes that occur to allow prostate cells to proliferate in the absence of androgens are not fully understood. Results: Subtractive hybridization experiments performed with samples from a...

A weighty matter--lifting after breast cancer.

710 n engl j med 361;7 nejm.org august 13, 2009 set up to encourage interaction and debate. We urge readers to visit the Forum section of the Center and share their ideas for the future of American health care. It is our hope that the entire body of work in the online Health Care Reform Center will inform the political process. Although the debate over how to repair and reinvigorate our health ...

Weighty: NICE's Not-So-Nice Words

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance to improve health and social care in England. It currently influences bodies such as the NHS, local authorities, employers, and anyone else involved in delivering care or promoting well-being. NICE is also part and shapes the dominant discourse surrounding “obesity” in England. For example, in 2016, NICE pub...

Weighty matters: the association between mental health, pregnancy, and obesity.

Weighty data: importance information influences estimated weight of digital information storage devices

Previous work suggests that perceived importance of an object influences estimates of its weight. Specifically, important books were estimated to be heavier than non-important books. However, the experimental set-up of these studies may have suffered from a potential confound and findings may be confined to books only. Addressing this, we investigate the effect of importance on weight estimates...