Shining the spotlight on education

Shining the 'spotlight' on obesity.

In his seminal book, ‘The Strategy of Preventive Medicine,’ the English epidemiologist Geoffrey Rose suggested that true epidemiology involves looking not just at the cause of a disease, but at the ‘cause of the cause’ and the ‘cause of the cause of the cause’ [1] . A quarter of a century earlier, Susan Sontag (‘Illness as Metaphor’) stated that: ‘any important disease whose causality is murky ...

A Spotlight on Spotlight

In this paper, we have made an attempt to take a look under the hood of Spotlight and understand some of the following questions amongst others: • How well-integrated is Spotlight with the file system? • How reliable is the interface between Spotlight and the file system? • Is live update a myth or a reality under heavy file system activity? Based on our experiments, it seems that Spotlight is ...

Shining light on the Sunshine Act.

INTRODUCTION Section 6002 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as the Sunshine Act, requires that manufacturers report payments or other transfers of value made to physicians and teaching hospitals [1,2]. The tracking of such payments goes into effect on August 1, 2013, and the new rules could affect radiologists. In this column, I pose and answer several questions rega...

Shining a light on the Sunshine Act.

Shining new light on the brain

Optogenetics - a new methodology that involves expression of light-responsive proteins in specific groups of neurons, which can then be activated with light - has only been around for six years, but some researchers are already using it to target big psychiatric questions. Michael Gross reports.