Yes: Bed sharing is too hazardous

Binge drinking: all too prevalent and hazardous.

Public hospital bed crisis: too few or too misused?

* Increasing demand on public hospital beds has led to what many see as a hospital bed crisis requiring substantial increases in bed numbers. By 2050, if current bed use trends persist and as the numbers of frail older patients rise exponentially, a 62% increase in hospital beds will be required to meet expected demand, at a cost almost equal to the entire current Australian healthcare budget. ...

Personal Knowledge Elaboration and Sharing: Presentation is Knowledge too

In this paper, we propose to consider the construction, elaboration and sharing of “personal knowledge”, as it is developed during an activity and at the same time sustains that activity. We distinguish three poles in personal knowledge: specific, generic and presentation knowledge. The elaboration process consists in the building of knowledge of each kind, but also in the circulation of inform...

Bed-sharing by breastfeeding mothers: who bed-shares and what is the relationship with breastfeeding duration?

AIM To explore the link between breastfeeding duration and bed-sharing frequency among women reporting a prenatal intention to breastfeed. METHODS About 870 participants in a randomised breastfeeding trial, recruited at mid-pregnancy, provided weekly snapshots of breastfeeding and bed-sharing behaviour for 26 weeks following birth. Strength of prenatal breastfeeding intent was recorded at rec...

SENS is hard , yes , but not too hard to try : a reply to Warner

Elsewhere in this issue, Huber Warner writes a critique of my “Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence” (SENS) proposal for the dramatic postponement of age-related functional decline. His commentary advances the debate on SENS to a proper level of measured discourse, something that has been regrettably lacking hitherto, and for this I applaud him. However, his conclusion that SENS is c...