BACKGROUND Heel prick blood sampling is a commonly performed and painful procedure in the newborn infant. Use of a topical local anaesthetic does not relieve this pain. A 4% w/w amethocaine gel (Ametop) reduces the pain of venepuncture in the newborn but has not been tried with heel pricks. AIM To investigate the effect of topical amethocaine gel on the pain of heel prick in the newborn infan...

New species of lance lacewings, Spilosmylus spilopteryxsp. n. and Spilosmylus tephrodestigmasp. n., are described from the Philippines and compared with congeners. Both species are characterised by a distinctive wing pattern, which in the case of Spilosmylus spilopteryxsp. n. is relatively spectacular among lacewings. An identification key to the species of Spilosmylus Kolbe known from the Phil...

Lance B. Price, Benjamin J. Koch, and Bruce A. Hungate Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; Division of Pathogen Genomics, Translational Genomics Research Institute, Flagstaff, AZ 86001; Center for Ecosystem Science and Society, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ 86011; and Department of Biological Sciences, Northern Arizona U...

A Postsynthesis Decomposition Strategy for Group III Nitride Quantum Wires Lance Brockway, Chandrashekhar Pendyala, Jacek Jasinski, Mahendra K. Sunkara, and Sreeram Vaddiraju* Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, 3122 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843, United States 106 Ernst Hall, Department of Chemical Engineering, and Conn Center for Renewable Energy Research, Universit...

Lance Taylor is the Director of the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis (SCEPA) and the Arnhold Professor of International Cooperation and Development at the New School for Social Research. Rudiger von Arnim is a Research Assistant. This SCEPA Policy Note is based on their 2006 paper for Oxfam International titled, “Modeling the Impact of Trade Liberalization: A Critique of Computable ...

In a randomised, double blind, controlled study the ability of 5% lignocaine ointment to reduce the behavioural response to heel lance in 30 healthy neonates was assessed. Five per cent lignocaine ointment applied to the heel under an occlusive dressing for one hour before heel prick did not reduce the infants' behavioural response to the heel prick procedure.