Cerebral salt wasting is characterized by inappropriate natriuresis and volume contraction in the presence of cerebral pathology. Diagnosis can be difficult and therapy is challenging. We report two children with tuberculous meningitis and hydrocephalus who developed cerebral salt wasting following neurosurgical intervention. The first patient was managed with rigorous salt and water replacemen...

Schieber et al. demonstrate that a specific gut microbiota bacterial strain induces a host-mediated protection mechanism against inflammation-driven wasting syndrome. This salutary effect confers a net survival advantage against bacterial infection, without interfering with the host's pathogen load, revealing that host-microbiota interactions regulate disease tolerance to infection.

Similarly in civil life people who are temperamentally or physically unfit for their job in life become Neurotic. Any instinct may be at the root of the neurosis, but the commonest are the instinct of selfPreservation and the sexual instinct. In civil life the neurosis is much less effective for the attainment ?f its end than it was during the war. It is not a rational way out of the unpleasant...

Last Updated: October 8, 2008 Importance Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a neurodegenerative disease, caused by a prion that affects cervids including deer, elk and moose. Until recently, CWD was an obscure illness that seemed to be found only in a small geographic area in northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming. However, this disease has now been detected in wild and farmed cervids in ...

See related article, p 1781. After the financial downturn of 2008, many governments and businesses were forced to cut costs and live in a new “age of austerity.” With regard to the provision of healthcare services, the age of austerity requires prioritizing healthcare needs and providing treatments that are demonstrably beneficial and in the ideal world, relatively inexpensive as well. So what ...

Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is a neurodegenerative disease, caused by a prion that affects cervids including deer, elk and moose. Until recently, CWD was an obscure illness that seemed to be found only in a small geographic area in northeastern Colorado and southeastern Wyoming. However, this disease has now been detected in wild and farmed cervids in many other U.S. states and Canada. Korea ...

BACKGROUND Acute malnutrition is a major public health issue in low-income countries. It includes both wasting and edematous malnutrition, but the terms wasting and acute malnutrition are often used interchangeably. Little is known about the burden of edematous malnutrition, and few large-scale surveys measure it. OBJECTIVE Most acute malnutrition might be captured by the measurement of wasti...

BACKGROUND Worrying about wasting GP time is frequently cited as a barrier to help-seeking for cancer symptoms. AIM To explore the circumstances under which individuals feel that they are wasting GP time. DESIGN AND SETTING Community-based, qualitative interview studies that took place in London, the South East and the North West of England. METHOD Interviewees (n = 62) were recruited fro...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition in preschool children, usually measured as wasting, is widely used to assess possible needs for emergency humanitarian interventions in areas vulnerable to drought, displacement, and related causes of food insecurity. The extent of fluctuations in wasting by season, year-to-year, and differential effects by livelihood group, need to be better established as a basis for i...