Is there a Better Word than 'Craving'?

Total Knee Replacement Sizing: Shoe Size Is a Better Predictor for Implant Size than Body Height

Background: Various sizes of implants need to be available during surgery. The purpose of this paper is to comparebody height and shoe size with implant sizes in patients who underwent total knee replacement surgery to see whichbiomarker is a better predictor for preoperative planning to determine implant size.Methods: A total of 100 knees, belonging to 50 females and 50 males, were observed. P...

Global Tele-Immersion: Better Than Being There

The term Tele-Immersion was first used in October 1996 as the title of a workshop the Electronic Visualization Laboratory (EVL) at University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) organized in Chicago to bring together researchers in distributed computing, collaboration, virtual reality (VR), and networking. Workshop attendees paid specific attention to the future needs of applications in the sciences, ...

Construction—Is there a better way?

Medication reconciliation: is there a better way?

Why do so many hospitals find the task of medication reconciliation so difficult? In part, it's because so many people are involved in tracking the medications a patient takes before, during and after a hospital stay. "There are so many folks in this marriage that it's difficult to manage," says Chris Snyder, D.O., chief medical information officer at Peninsula Regional Medical Center, Salisbur...

Why Believe That There Is a God?

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...