Long way for a shortcut

A Third Way for Health Policy?

Economics has hit the mainstream in the last decade with popular books like Freakonomics and The Undercover Economist reaching the masses. These authors have used their toolkits far beyond the narrow scope of money and finance and answered questions pertaining to anything from social policy to demographics to crime. Their appeal has largely been their ability to explain that small underlying fo...

a long way is ahead of prediction of menopause!

We've come a long way.

Freddie Mercury died in 1991. I was a nursing student at the time and one of my colleagues said Freddie deserved what happened to him because of his gay lifestyle. I was shocked, but this was not an isolated incident - as a student I experienced both overt and subtle homophobia.

A long way to stemness

Hematopoiesis starts with generation of “primitive” erythroblasts and macrophage progenitors in the visceral yolk sac. The earliest strictly defined adulttype or definitive HSCs can be detected in the AGM region at around E11. Accumulation of stem cells activity in the explant cultures of the AGM region strengthened a growing perception that HSCs originate intraembryonically and mammalian hemat...

A Long Way to Travel

Suggested citation for this article: Wilcox LS. A long way to travel. Prev Chronic Dis [serial online] 2005 Oct [date cited]. The travel experiences of one Lemuel Gulliver were first published in 1726 (1). Captain Gulliver, an ordinary, middle class Englishman, has a series of remarkable adventures , beginning with his trip to the island of Lilliput. Gulliver awakes on the island after survivin...