Commentary Using their large sample of epilepsy surgery candidates, Berl et al. have made an important contribution regarding the complexity of the lateralization patterns during a semantic decision task of aurally presented word definitions. They have demonstrated the need for assessing lateralization of language in both Wernicke's area (WA) and Broca's area (inferior frontal gyrus [IFG]) rath...

BACKGROUND Firefighters suffer from high prevalence of obesity, substandard fitness, and cardiovascular-related deaths. There have been a limited number of firefighter health promotion programs that have been developed and empirically-tested for this important occupational group. We evaluated the health of firefighters from departments with well-developed health promotion programs and compared ...

Foxes (n = 499), shot during vertebrate pest control programs, were collected in various sites in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), New South Wales (NSW) and Western Australia (WA). Wild dogs (dingoes (Canis lupus dingo) and their hybrids with domestic dogs) (n = 52) captured also as part of vertebrate pest control programs were collected from several sites in the ACT and NSW. The intesti...

BACKGROUND Veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) is increasingly adopted for the treatment of cardiogenic shock (CS). However, a marker of successful weaning remains largely unknown. Our hypothesis was that successful weaning is associated with sustained microcirculatory function during ECMO flow reduction. Therefore, we sought to test the usefulness of microcirculatory im...

1Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; 2Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA; 3Department of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; 4Department of Radiation Oncology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; 5Department of Radiation Physics, The Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; and 6Pacific Northwest National Laborato...

1Leukemia Program, Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute, Cleveland, OH; 2Southwest Oncology Group (SWOG) Study Statistical Center, Seattle, WA; 3H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; 4Seattle Cancer Care Alliance, Seattle, WA; 5University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; 6University of Washington, Seattle, WA; 7University of New Mexico Cancer Center, Albuquerque, NM; and 8Fred Hutchinson Ca...