Wired or wary?

"Wired" science or whither the printed page?

Assistant Managing Editor: Dawn Bennett Senior Editors: Eleanore Butz, R. Brooks Hanson, Pamela J. Hines, BarbaraJasny, KatrinaL. Kelner, PaulaA. Kiberstis, Linda J. Miller, L Bryan Ray, Phillip D. Szuromi, David F. Voss Associate Editors: Gilbert J. Chin, Suki Parks Letters: Christine Gilbert, Editor; Steven S. Lapham Book Reviews: Katherine Livingston, Editor, Jeffrey Hearn, Editorial Assista...

Be wary of the thorny QALY.

We have arrived at a new era for health care, one that will be dominated by the BIG question can we afford it? Currently in Ireland, the Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) promotes the use of QALYs in cost effective analysis of Health Technology Assessments (HTAs), which it then presents to the Health Service Executive (HSE). The QALY is also used in the UK by the NHS to determine ...

Accepting Authoritative Decisions: Humans as Wary Cooperators

Wired Wired World: Breaking the Mosaic Mold

Many of us have been watching the recent goings-on at Netscape and wondering what it all means. The layoffs in general, the cancellation of in-house Java development, and the Communicator source-code giveaway have received most of the attention, but another unsettling item has gone largely unnoticed. As of February 1998, Netscape no longer maintains a staff of usability engineers. At its zenith...

Hard-wired or Soft-wired ? Evidence for the Structural Plasticity of White Matter Networks Following Anterior Temporal Lobectomy

Introduction Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is the most common cause of medically intractable partial epilepsy, and in approximately 80% of patients with TLE, seizures are refractory to drug treatment. For this group of patients, anterior temporal lobe resection (ATLR) is now a well-established and effective means of treatment. Though up to 80% of these patients may be rendered seizure free by su...