PUTTING BED-SHARING FINDINGS INTO PERSPECTIVE

Putting ALLHAT into Perspective

Antihypertensive and Lipid-Lowering Treatment to Prevent Heart Attack Trial (the ALLHAT study), reported in late 2002,1 drew the interest of media journalists as well as the attention of the medical community and the health care industry. The nation’s leading newspapers and television networks scrambled to provide coverage of the significant findings. Although the abbreviated versions that made...

Putting medical risks into perspective.

Putting co-sleeping into perspective.

Co-sleepingbegins in infancy andoften continues through to childhood as part of early nurturing practices. In evolutionary terms the human infant is the most neurologically immature primate at birth and develops the most slowly, thus intense and prolonged mother-infant contact acts as a protectivemechanismagainst physiological difficulties and environmental assaults. Proposed benefits of close ...

Putting orang-utan population trends into perspective

Is it true that “the orang-utan could be virtually extinct within five years”, as reported by [1] in a recent issue of Current Biology? The dire conservation status of this ape warrants a sense of urgency [2], but we would like to present a more balanced view and highlight the emergence of some positive trends. Illegal logging, forest conversion and associated fires occur in most Indonesian nat...

Putting home storage management into Perspective

Perspective is a decentralized data management system for the growing collection of consumer electronics that store and access digital content. Perspective uses a new construct, called the view, to concisely describe which data objects each device may store and access. By knowing the views in the system, a device can know which devices may need to hear about any particular update and which devi...