Just a Word Doctor

A pack a day: just what the doctor ordered?

need a doctor’s note to light up. Member of Parliament and former health minister Siv Fridleifsdottir, backed by the country’s medical association, will table a private member’s bill in the fall to make cigarettes a prescription-only product. Only pharmacies would be allowed to dispense tobacco products — at first to anyone over 20 and finally only to people with medical certificates. The pitch...

Kids and Statins: Just What the Doctor Ordered?

ering cholesterol levels and weight. Short-term results have suggested that the low-carbohydrate approach might help to increase weight loss and lower total and low-density lipoproteincholesterol (LDL-C) levels. However, meta-analyses of the various popular low-fat and low-carbohydrate nutritional plans reveal little advantage to either when these regimens are extende d for one year or greater....

Sex is not just a three-letter word.

Just a talking book? Word learning from watching baby videos.

This study examined the relationship between viewing an infant DVD and expressive and receptive language outcomes. Children between 12 and 15 months were randomly assigned to view Baby Wordsworth, a DVD highlighting words around the house marketed for children beginning at 12 months of age. Viewings took place in home settings over 6 weeks. After every 2 weeks and five exposures to the DVD, chi...

The appointed factory doctor service: just a face-lift or a new breed?

The practice of medicine is more resistant to change than even industry or education when it is presented with advances in science or technology. Until the discovery of the sulphonamides in the late I930s, when clinical scienc{e did not exist even as a name, there was no need for change in the institutions delivering the static medical knowledge in general practice, in hospital, or in public he...