Many zooarchaeologists have presented evidence indicating that pre­ h i toric forag rs h ad Significant impacts on faunas . The evidence has prompted the suggestion that anth ropogenic impacts are ubiqui tous. In many times and places humans indeed influenced local faunal communities. Research should not, however, be initia ted with the p reconceived notion that evidence of th il t influence wi...

n engl j med 367;5 nejm.org august 2, 2012 389 of adults and nearly one third of children in the United States are overweight or obese, and many public health experts are worried that we are not solving the prob­ lem quickly enough. This concern prompted the re­ cent Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, “Accelerating Progress in Obesity Prevention: Solving the Weight of the Nation.” The groundbr...

Tumor dissemination to distant organ is the cause of death. Therefore there is urgent set up sensitive methods for early dete circulating tumor cells (CTCs) and disse tumor cells (DTCs) in peripheral blood (P bone marrow (BM) specimens of breas patients. We aim to detect MUC2 mRNA cells in PB and BM of breast cancer pati relate this to patient relapse. In this stud tect MUC2 mRNA positive cells...

stantial (36%–90%), whereas in dizygotic (DZ) pairs the rate is similar to the rate of autism among siblings of De Crespigny Park London, SE5 8AF affected children. Twin studies also suggest that the genetic predisposition extends to related, but milder, communication and/or social deficits. In the largest study (Bailey et al., 1995), 92% of MZ pairs were concor-Roosevelt Drive Oxford, OX3 7BN ...

Screening asymptomatic individuals remains the subject of intense debate in medicine. In the beginning of 2014 the use of screening for breast cancer in women was seriously questioned based on studies from Canada (Toronto) and the Netherlands (Leiden). It was shown that, particularly in women over 70 years, screening for breast cancer might even bring more harm than benefit in terms of over dia...

1965—Medicare and Medicaid were enacted as Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act, extending health coverage to almost all Americans age 65 or over (e.g., those receiving retirement ben­ efits from Social Security or the Railroad Retirement Board), and providing health care services to low-income children deprived of parental support, their care­ taker relatives, the elderly, the ...

Methods Inf Med 2016; 55: 389–391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME15-22-0005 epub ahead of print: August 15, 2016 This issue of Methods of Information in Medicine features a special section that begins with a provocative article by Martin-Sanchez and Lopez-Campos examining the relationship between biomedical informatics and digital medicine [1] and closes with a series of invited commentaries [2] t...

Methods Inf Med 2016; 55: 389–391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3414/ME15-22-0005 epub ahead of print: August 15, 2016 This issue of Methods of Information in Medicine features a special section that begins with a provocative article by Martin-Sanchez and Lopez-Campos examining the relationship between biomedical informatics and digital medicine [1] and closes with a series of invited commentaries [2] t...

Mad individuals in a mad society In 1967, R.D. Laing published his ground­ breaking book, The Politics of Experience. In it, Laing expressed the radical view that insanity, however one chooses to define it, is only "mad" when viewed from the perspective of a mad soci­ ety which forms its social context. Psychiatric diagnosis, he points out, is based on a consensus view of reality which circumve...

studies have employed phonological processing tasks and have clearly demonstrated that poor phonological skills are a hallmark of developmental dyslexia. While these failures in phonological processing are commonly invoked as causal factors in developmental reading failGuinevere F. Eden* and Thomas A. Zeffiro Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences Georgetown University Wa...