Case Studies in Revenge: Philomel Gives Advice

PLD gives nutritional advice to mTORC1

Ran drags spindles through the Mud T he Ran GTPase orients the mitotic spindle by controlling the recruitment of a motor adaptor protein to the cell cortex, Wee et al. report. Spindle orientation can determine the fate of daughter cells by affecting the proteins they inherit or the position they occupy within a tissue. A key factor controlling spindle alignment is the protein Pins, which locali...

CDC gives advice on tissue safety.

Who gives good weight-loss advice to the obese?

According to a recent survey of 1873 obese (BMI at or above 30 kg/m) US adults, insufficient advice regarding weight loss is provided by health professionals. Among those visiting a physician during the year before the survey, only 39 % were advised to lose weight. This number is actually slightly lower than in a previous study. Those with a poorer health and with higher BMI were more frequentl...

Alcohol-related advice for Veterans Affairs primary care patients: Who gets it? Who gives it?

OBJECTIVE Most patients who misuse alcohol do not receive alcohol counseling from their providers. This study evaluated primary care patient and provider characteristics associated with receipt of alcohol-related advice and whether patients were advised to drink less or to abstain. METHOD Outpatients from seven Veterans Affairs (VA) general medicine clinics were eligible if they screened posi...

Improving Farmers’ Access to Advice on Land Management: Lessons from Case Studies in Developed Countries

Governments which have privatised their advisory services still try to influence farmers’ land use and land management decisions in order to achieve policy objectives. At the same time farmers and other managers of rural land need access to increasingly complex and varied information and advice when making land use and business decisions. This paper reviews the range of ways in which advisory s...