The aim of this paper is to explore key dimensions of the reproductive experiences of disabled women who are, or who are thinking about becoming, mothers. The paper reports a qualitative study which involved semi-structured interviews with 17 disabled women who were contemplating childbearing, or were pregnant, and/or had young children. The interpretation of these women's experiences is situat...

To the editor: I read the interesting study by Weaver et al1 and the accompanying editorial by Wilcox and Richards2 on noninvasive carbon monoxide (CO) detection in the February 2013 issue of RESPIRATORY CARE. I agree wholeheartedly with those authors that CO poisoning is an important public health concern, confounded by nonspecific symptoms that challenge diagnosticians. My experience with non...

Regulating corporate hog farms is one of the top issues confronting the Iowa Legislature in 1999. Two key Iowa Supreme Court decisions and a new governor favoring local control will reheat the debate over who will control the regulatory process. Federal, state, and county governments want control over regulating hog farms. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency claims oversight control und...

On 1 May 2004 research ethics committees became legally accountable to a new government body, the United Kingdom Ethics Committee Authority. This marks the end of the self regulation of research ethics. This paper describes how this change in research ethics committee status has come about and explores the implications for research subjects, researchers, institutions, and for regulation of rese...

Context Placenta-mediated pregnancy complications, ranging from miscarriage to growth restriction and pre-eclampsia, collectively affect more than 25% of pregnancies. While the aetiology of pregnancy complications is heterogeneous, it is plausible that common processes such as inflammation and activation of the coagulation system play key roles. Therefore, antithrombotic treatments, specificall...

L ife as we know it is the result of symbiosis. Mitochondria, the energy generators of our own bodies, are the end result of the symbiosis of a bacterium with a host eukaryote. Visible around us are the land plants that we eat to fuel our mitochondria. Land plants are the beneficiaries of a second symbiosis, that of a cyanobacterium with a mitochondriate host, a relationship that subsequently d...

Regulations to curb tax avoidance and evasion through charitable foundations have been in place since the Tax Reform Act of 1969. Newly-compiled longitudinal data makes it possible to estimate the effects of these regulations by comparing affected and unaffected foundations before and after the reform. Donations and entry dropped precipitously. Proxy variables suggest significant deterrence of ...

Donald P. Green, Soo Yeon Kim, and David H. Yoon contribute to the literature on estimating pooled times-series cross-section models in international relations (IR). They argue that such models should be estimated with fixed effects when such effects are statistically necessary. While we obviously have no disagreement that sometimes fixed effects are appropriate, we show here that they are pern...

A four-month-old boy, born at term without complications, presents for his well-baby appointment with his mother. He is developmentally normal and has a negative review of systems, except that he is described as ‘colicky’. His height, weight and head circumference are slightly above the 50th percentile. On examination, two small brown-yellow bruises on the right arm superior to the antecubital ...