Editor, perhaps we can help put Robert Jacoby and the dozen other men who found our editorial distressing out of at least a little of their misery? The reason for the quiet celebration we suggest is that it has generally only been in extremely poor countries that women have died earlier than men in recent decades. By 2006 almost nowhere in the world appears so absolutely poor (at least in this ...

The obstetric urogenital fi stula has caused women misery ever since they fi rst started delivering children. It was once common worldwide, but with the advent of safe obstetric care during the early part of the last century, the condition has become rare in rich countries. Urogenital fi stulae do still occur in developed countries, but unlike in the developing world, they are usually a complic...

If you walk into any branch of Waterstones, near the biography section there is a section called “Lost Lives”. This is the result of the increasing numbers of memoirs dealing with various types of abuse in childhood and various degrees of subsequent transcendence. The genre has also less charitably been dubbed “Misery Lit”, and described as “the book world’s biggest boom sector.” I am happy to ...

If you walk into any branch of Waterstones, near the biography section there is a section called “Lost Lives”. This is the result of the increasing numbers of memoirs dealing with various types of abuse in childhood and various degrees of subsequent transcendence. The genre has also less charitably been dubbed “Misery Lit”, and described as “the book world’s biggest boom sector.” I am happy to ...

Dr. Salk's professional life was as far removed from that oftoday's researchers at the National Institutes ofHealth as the sun is from, say, Wall Street. Theoretically, the NIH belongs to the American people. U.S. taxpayers give it $28 billion a year to develop remedies for human misery. Many assume that today's NIH researchers are carrying on the mission as Salk did, free from financial or com...

UNLABELLED To avoid arterial blood sampling and complicated analyses in 15O-gas PET studies, we evaluated a noninvasive technique using the count-based method for measuring asymmetric increases in oxygen extraction fraction (OEF) in cerebrovascular disease. METHODS Eighteen patients (mean age +/- SD, 61 +/- 16 y) with atherothrombotic large-cerebral-artery disease were studied for the measure...

Abstract COVID-19 is now part of the resources out which any future must be made. The temptation to curl back into private misery and fatalism. opportunity further design neonationalist, neoliberal returns pre-1917 norms extreme wealth, poverty, unmitigated exploitation technical ecological resources. challenge build a public health, education, environmental justice.

We hypothesized a phenomenon that we term myopic misery. According to our hypothesis, sadness increases impatience and creates a myopic focus on obtaining money immediately instead of later. This focus, in turn, increases intertemporal discount rates and thereby produces substantial financial costs. In three experiments, we randomly assigned participants to sad- and neutral-state conditions, an...

a large size, and had existed for 3 or 4 years. The patient was subject to chronic bronchitis and emphysema; was in a very reduced state of health ; could hardly lie on his back ; passed most of his time in a sitting posture, and was in great misery from pain and constant dribbling of urine. Four days after admission, under chloroform, No. 12 silver catheter was passed; the urine was drawn off,...

Low back pain is a very common problem, particularly in industrialised countries. In addition to the enormous cost to the economy, the scale of the misery arising is considerable. Mechanical damage is often felt to be an underlying cause of the pain and, certainly, lumbar spine instability is a topic of much current interest. Determination and characterisation of instability is, however, fraugh...