Weighty argument

Obesity: a weighty issue for children.

Background: Prostate cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in American men, and few effective treatment options are available to patients who develop hormone-refractory prostate cancer. The molecular changes that occur to allow prostate cells to proliferate in the absence of androgens are not fully understood. Results: Subtractive hybridization experiments performed with samples from a...

A weighty matter--lifting after breast cancer.

710 n engl j med 361;7 nejm.org august 13, 2009 set up to encourage interaction and debate. We urge readers to visit the Forum section of the Center and share their ideas for the future of American health care. It is our hope that the entire body of work in the online Health Care Reform Center will inform the political process. Although the debate over how to repair and reinvigorate our health ...

Weighty: NICE's Not-So-Nice Words

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) provides national guidance to improve health and social care in England. It currently influences bodies such as the NHS, local authorities, employers, and anyone else involved in delivering care or promoting well-being. NICE is also part and shapes the dominant discourse surrounding “obesity” in England. For example, in 2016, NICE pub...

Weighty matters: the association between mental health, pregnancy, and obesity.

Argument or no argument ?

We will call such adjuncts instances of the X or no X construction It was suggested in the middle 1980s by Alexis Manaster-Ramer that well-formed instances of X or no X involve a string X of unbounded length preceding or no, with an exact copy following (for a brief allusion to it in print, see Manaster-Ramer 1986). This claim has received hardly any discussion at all in the subsequent literatu...