Completed consultant episodes increase but hospital discharges decrease.

Implementing New Regulation Promotes Health but May Increase Inequality

Difficult hospital discharges and disease management.

In acute medical wards the use of comprehensive assessment techniques is mandatory [3]. The evolution of nurses’ role in assessment and care management of acute medical patients, mainly complex and frail, represents the basis to realising good governance of chronic disease in hospitals [4]. The problem is how to connect good management of difficult hospital discarge, and, in general, of complex...

Cannabinoid CB1 Receptor Agonists Do Not Decrease, but may Increase Acoustic Trauma-Induced Tinnitus in Rats

Tinnitus has been suggested to arise from neuronal hyperactivity in auditory areas of the brain, and anti-epileptic drugs are sometimes used to provide relief from tinnitus. Recently, the anti-epileptic properties of the cannabinoid drugs have gained increasing interest; however, the use of cannabinoids as a form of treatment for tinnitus is controversial. In this study, we tested whether a com...

Heightened aggression and winning contests increase corticosterone but decrease testosterone in male Australian water dragons.

Water dragons (Intellegama [Physignathus] lesueurii) are large (to >1m) agamid lizards from eastern Australia. Males are fiercely combative; holding a territory requires incessant displays and aggression against other males. If a dominant male is absent, injured or fatigued, another male soon takes over his territory. Our sampling of blood from free-ranging adult males showed that baseline leve...

Ocean acidification and rising temperatures may increase biofilm primary productivity but decrease grazer consumption.

Climate change may cause ecosystems to become trophically restructured as a result of primary producers and consumers responding differently to increasing CO2 and temperature. This study used an integrative approach using a controlled microcosm experiment to investigate the combined effects of CO2 and temperature on key components of the intertidal system in the UK, biofilms and their consumers...