Shining the ‘Spotlight’ on Obesity

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 ...

Blood Spotlight Blood spotlight on leukocytes and obesity

The obesity epidemic, which started in the industrialized world, has progressed to become a worldwide pandemic in which the number of obese individuals worldwide now exceeds those who are malnourished. Unlike other pandemics, however, obesity does not cause disease directly but instead functions as a potent independent risk factor for a number of chronic pathologies, including type 2 diabetes, ...

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.