Response to Packard: make sure we do not throw out the biological baby with the statistical bath water when performing allometric analyses

Response to Packard: make sure we do not throw out the biological baby with the statistical bath water when performing allometric analyses.

VCO2-derived energy expenditure: do not throw the baby out with the bath water!

Regulating corporate hog farms is one of the top issues confronting the Iowa Legislature in 1999. Two key Iowa Supreme Court decisions and a new governor favoring local control will reheat the debate over who will control the regulatory process. Federal, state, and county governments want control over regulating hog farms. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency claims oversight control und...

Do Not Throw Out the Baby

Retrograde amnesia for autobiographical information is the most critical adverse effect of electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). Much, if not most, modern research demonstrating long-term autobiographical amnesia after ECT has used either the Columbia University Autobiographical Memory Interview (CUAMI) or the short form of this scale (CUAMI-SF). Semkovska and McLoughlin claimed that studies using t...

SpCO: let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.

To the editor: I read the interesting study by Weaver et al1 and the accompanying editorial by Wilcox and Richards2 on noninvasive carbon monoxide (CO) detection in the February 2013 issue of RESPIRATORY CARE. I agree wholeheartedly with those authors that CO poisoning is an important public health concern, confounded by nonspecific symptoms that challenge diagnosticians. My experience with non...

Antithrombotic therapy for pregnancy complications: let's not throw the baby out with the bath water.

Context Placenta-mediated pregnancy complications, ranging from miscarriage to growth restriction and pre-eclampsia, collectively affect more than 25% of pregnancies. While the aetiology of pregnancy complications is heterogeneous, it is plausible that common processes such as inflammation and activation of the coagulation system play key roles. Therefore, antithrombotic treatments, specificall...