Reflections on opening Pandora's box.

Opening the door to older consumers: Pandora's box or the way ahead?

Opening Pandora's box: How technologies of communication and cognition may be shifting towards a 'psycho-civilized society'

Primary care physicians' response to domestic violence. Opening Pandora's box.

OBJECTIVE To explore primary care physicians' experiences with domestic violence victims to determine the barriers to problem recognition and intervention in the primary care setting. DESIGN Ethnography, a qualitative research method involving the use of open-ended, semistructured interviews. SETTING An urban health maintenance organization serving a predominantly white, middle-income popul...

Opening Pandora's (tool) Box: health care construction and associated risk for nosocomial infection.

There are approximately 5,700 hospitals in the United States, 3,000-4,000 that are antiquated or obsolescing. To meet increased service demands, remain financially viable; meet needs to upgrade aging infrastructure and incorporate medical and technology advancements, healthcare facilities are in a perpetual state of construction. Outbreaks of nosocomial infections have historically been documen...

Apoptosis: Opening PANdora's BoX

Extracellular nucleotides have been reported to act as a 'find-me' signal in the context of phagocyte recruitment by apoptotically dying cells. A new study now examines the mechanisms of nucleotide release during apoptosis and describes the hemichannel-forming protein pannexin 1 as a crucial player in this scenario.