Attacks seem rare in labour

Hyponatremia complicating labour—rare or unrecognised? A prospective observational study

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence of hyponatraemia following delivery, with a hypothesis that hyponatraemia has a high prevalence in labouring women. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING Consultant-led delivery suite in County Hospital, Kalmar, Sweden. SAMPLE A total of 287 pregnant women at term (37 full gestational weeks). METHODS Oral fluids...

Do terrorist attacks affect ethnic discrimination in the labour market? Evidence from two randomized field experiments.

Terrorist attacks are known to influence public opinion. But do they also change behaviour? We address this question by comparing the results of two identical randomized field experiments on ethnic discrimination in hiring that we conducted in Oslo. The first experiment was conducted before the 2011 terrorist attacks in Norway; the second experiment was conducted after the attacks. In both expe...

Repeated Attacks of Dizziness Caused by a Rare Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathy.

Cases of dizziness caused by multiple sclerosis are commonly reported, but those caused by mitochondrial encephalomyopathy have been rarely reported. Particularly, the description of eye nystagmography (ENG) using caloric and optokinetic nystagmus tests has not been reported to date. We encountered the case of a 40-year-old woman with mitochondrial encephalomyopathy who visited us with the chie...

What forecasts ( seem to ) mean

A forecast is just the set of probabilities attached to a set of future events. In order to understand a forecast, all one needs to do is to interpret those two bits of information. Unfortunately, there are pitfalls to communicating each element, so that the user of a forecast understands what its producer means. One source of potential problems is ambiguity regarding the event being predicted ...

"Waves of Edema" Seem Implausible.