Eating kangaroo (good) and goat (bad) for rangelands

Good and bad fever

Fever is considered a key actor of innate immunity aimed to fight infection. A new investigation reports an association of the use of antipyretic drugs with poorer outcome among patients with sepsis. In contrast, high temperature in non-infectious intensive care patients is associated with higher mortality.

Competition in Healthcare: Good, Bad or Ugly?

The role of competition in healthcare is much debated. Despite a wealth of international experience in relation to competition, evidence is mixed and contested and the debate about the potential role for competition is often polarised. This paper considers briefly some of the reasons for this, focusing on what is meant by “competition in healthcare” and why it is more valuable to think about th...

Good and Bad Measures

We point out that the commonly known properties of continuous measures such as the symmetry of the A 1 condition, its equivalence to the reverse HH older inequality, the left-openness of the A p condition etc., are no longer necessarily true when the underlying measure is allowed to have atoms. We call the measures that preserve these properties good measures. We investigate the class of good m...

Neural Plasticity: For Good and Bad

The brain’s ability to change its organization and function is necessary for normal development of the nervous system and it makes it possible to adapt to changing demands but it can also cause disorders when going awry. This property, known as neural plasticity, is only evident when induced, very much like genes. Plastic changes may be programmed and providing a “midcourse correction” during c...

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