Nutritional support of the child with cancer now is recognized as an important adjunct to cancer treatment. Protein-energy malnutrition frequently accompanies the diagnosis and treat ment of children with neoplastic diseases. Common risk factors for the development of protein-energy malnutrition include ad vanced stages of disease, lack of tumor responses, intense treatment with curative intent...

Since the introduction of hemodialysis in the management of acute kidney injury in the 1940s and for chronic kidney disease in the 1960s dialysis has become one of the most successful advances in medical technology, with almost 11,000 patients currently receiving dialysis in Australia and almost 2500 in New Zealand. Like all medical technologies, its place continues to evolve. For a time, dialy...

How do we know what people perceive in a diagram, picture, or dynamic visual interface? What users take from a visualisation may not be the same as what designers intended by it. Cognitive Discourse Analysis (CODA) is a methodology that helps identifying the perceivers' thoughts. Users are asked to speak out lout what they're thinking; their language is transcribed, and analysed in depth. Besid...

Many of us use statistical methods like an unsteady person might use a lamppost—more for support (of our preconceived notions) than for illumination. After all, Yogi Bera once said, ‘If I didn’t believe it, I wouldn’t have seen it.’ So it is easy to scoff at some of the flimsy constructs our colleagues have brought forward to ‘illuminate’ important issues that have not been answered by definiti...

* The schema for dbZach may be obtained by contacting the authors. Copyrighted code for generating the database, and the Java software associated with the database, can be licensed through arrangement with the Office of Abstract Quantitative risk assessment and the elucidation of mechanisms of toxicity requires computational infrastructure and innovative analysis approaches that systematically ...

TODAY, THE UNITED STATES IS ONLY ONE DECADE REmoved from what was then a forecast of difficult meager times for the national investment in medical and scientific research. In 1995, the US House of Representatives budget resolution called for a cut in funding for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) of 5% for fiscal year (FY) 1996 and a freeze on NIH funding through FY 2000. However, the NIH ...

INTRODUCTION Healthcare models for the delivery of palliative care to rural populations encounter common challenges: service gaps, the cost of the service in relation to the population, sustainability, and difficulty in demonstrating improvements in outcomes. Although it is widely agreed that a community capacity-building approach to rural palliative care is essential, how that approach can be ...

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