Terblanche and colleagues add to the ongoing controversy over the role, if any, for statins in patients with sepsis. The authors note that statins fail to prevent progression to organ dysfunction in critically ill patients. However, like most publications, the study is retrospective and stimulates the controversy but fails to resolve it. The time has come for robust randomized controlled clinic...

Sex work in all its forms is an occupation that belongs to the service industry, and like any other work, sexual labour open exploitation. However, reason why sex seen be different from of it betrays socially accepted rules love intimacy exercised within a criminalised environment. As cultural symbol, remains steadfastly linked aberration dangerousness. This article juxtaposes legal lay definit...

OBJECTIVES To analyse the attitudes of medical personnel towards terminally ill patients and their right to be fully informed. DESIGN Self-administered questionnaire composed of 56 closed questions. SETTING Three general hospitals and eleven health centres in Granada (Spain). The sample comprised 168 doctors and 207 nurses. RESULTS A high percentage of medical personnel (24.1%) do not thi...

We consider the possibility that single-source multicast (SSM) will become a universal multicast service, enabling large-scale distribution of content from a few well-known sources to a general audience. Operating under this assumption, we explore the problem of building the traditional IP model of any-source multicast on top of SSM. Toward this end, we design an SSM proxy service that allows a...