Damage to peripheral nerves following trauma or disease has a number of consequences including the emergence of neuropathic pain. Commonly, neuropathic pain sufferers experience spontaneous burning pain in and radiating from the area innervated by the damaged nerves, and an exquisite sensitivity to light touch stimuli, which are now perceived as painful. These neuropathic pains are often refrac...

Lower or zero growth could offer a realistic scenario, particularly for the future of the economy of advanced societies. This might arise from a variety of possible causes ranging from deliberate attempts to reduce growth in order to achieve sustainable development in society as a whole, or from the natural or cyclical levelling out of conventional, unadjusted economic growth, without any delib...

The search for new combination chemotherapeutic regimens for the treatment of non-small-cell lung cancer is motivated not only by the desire to increase the objective tumor response and survival rates, but also by the desire to reduce toxicity, decrease symptoms, and improve the psychological well-being of treated patients. At present, the overall phase II response rates with existing combinati...

This paper examines the impact of a decade of transition on the living standards of people living in seven of the poorest Republics of the former Soviet Union – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan (known as the CIS-7). Data are drawn from a wide variety of sources, providing a comprehensive overview of household and individual welfare within the region....

The research explored the current scenario of crime in Botswana, and the current measures employed to help combat it, including usage of crime prevention clusters. Through usage of the quantitative approach, with the aid of questionnaire and interviews, the research found that, there is an increasingly growth of crime rate in Botswana, sustaining the literature findings. The research highlighte...

In the current issue of Population Health Metrics, two reports paint a bleak picture of American public health. Both physical inactivity and obesity remain highly prevalent; yet, it is not clear that increased physical activity will reduce the burden of obesity. There continue to be widespread disparities in life expectancy across United States counties. These reports appear against a backdrop ...

According to alcohol-myopia theory (C. M. Steele & R. A. Josephs, 1990), alcohol leads individuals to disproportionally focus on the most salient aspects of a situation and to ignore peripheral information. The authors hypothesized that alcohol leads individuals to strongly commit to their goals without considering information about the probability of goal attainment. In Study 1, participants n...

1806 www.thelancet.com Vol 385 May 9, 2015 bleak. The papers we publish this week aim to show why withdrawing from multilateralism would be the wrong response to Ebola. It is perfectly understandable why many nations view threats to their citizens and sovereignty as reasons to act alone, on the basis of a narrow concept of strengthened state security. But human beings have many affi liations an...