ITE JOURNAL / NOVEMBER 1999 HIGHWAY-RAILROAD GRADE crossings are a relatively unique and sometimes perilous intersection of two transportation modes. The cost of collisions at these intersections is high in both dollars and human lives. The amount and type of sight distance provided at highway-railroad grade crossings can have significant impacts on safety. The proper calculation of these sight...

Erica Brownfield, MD Emory University School of Medicine Approximately 23 million people undergo surgery each year in the United States. Despite pharmacologic interventions, at least 40-50% of postoperative patients report inadequate pain relief. In addition, the practice of withholding analgesics due to fear of masking symptomatology and delaying diagnosis is still widespread in many emergency...

Introduction Recent surveys have shown acupuncture treatment to be safe and the risk of major complications extremely low. Subacute bacterial endocarditis is a known serious complication that can follow acupuncture treatment but the reporting of such events in the literature is rare. Of these isolated reports, most have been associated with the use of semi-permanent needles, which have been lef...

As long as health communications have existed in the USA, Americans have faced the task of sorting the agenda of the source from the advice it provides. That task has become more complicated as advances in the science of nutrition and the technology used to present it have heightened the complexity of nutrition communications. Getting consumers to adopt a healthier diet has been a protracted un...

Introduction This is the second of a series of articles that highlight human anatomy issues of relevance to acupuncture practitioners. Whilst the framework of the articles is built around anatomical structures that should be avoided when needling, the aim is not to frighten practitioners, but rather to instil confidence in safe needling techniques. Most textbooks of acupuncture use relative sca...

ESP practitioners in universities are increasingly being requested to edit their faculty colleagues’research manuscripts. This newly emerging relationship between text editor and requestingparty involves a form of mediation that goes beyond the traditional relationship between teacherand learner. Providing the task is performed assiduously, ESP practitioners can only gain fromth...