Anger management: bacteria soothe the savage host

Anger management: bacteria soothe the savage host.

A 5-year-old girl has come to you a week after completing a course of antibiotics for a febrile urinary tract infection (UTI). She now seems well and energetic. A urinalysis is now clear without traces of inflammation, including an absence of protein, blood, leukocyte esterase, and nitrites. Her urine is submitted for a test of cure and comes back positive, with over 100,000 colonies per millil...

Teaching healthy anger management.

TOPIC Teaching anger management in the community. PURPOSE To describe anger management and offer guidelines for assessing potential participants and teaching healthy behaviors. SOURCES Drawing from the literature, more than 10 years of quantitative and qualitative studies by our research team, and 5 years of experience in conducting anger management groups, the author presents basic princip...

Letter from Chicago: Trifles soothe the mind.

Targeting the bacteria–host interface

Bacterial infections are a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide and are increasingly problematic to treat due to the rise in antibiotic-resistant strains. It becomes more and more challenging to develop new antimicrobials that are able to withstand the ever-increasing repertoire of bacterial resistance mechanisms. This necessitates the development of alternative approaches to preven...

The Savage Cell

sexual behavior to racial values, free will, and the teachings of Freud. The first of these two interrelated halves is much easier to comment upon. The retelling of the debates between the various genetic schools of thought during the first 50 years of this century and resulting slow clarification of ideas is particularly well done. Many times in the course of the book Darlington demonstrates t...