1 n engl j med 10.1056/nejmp0902392 T obesity epidemic has inspired calls for public health measures to prevent diet-related diseases. One controversial idea is now the subject of public debate: food taxes. Forty states already have small taxes on sugared beverages and snack foods, but in the past year, Maine and New York have proposed large taxes on sugared beverages, and similar discussions h...

The concept of lethality is essential to the assessment of suicide risk; yet operational definitions of lethality for purposes of its measurement have been loose and varied. A number of scaling measures have been published in the literature, with no relative consensus on the best of these. In addition, only a few of these scales have published data on their psychometric properties. Of these, we...

A female, aged 40, was admitted as an in-patient for multiple injuries on 8th July, 1930, sustained from the fall of the ceiling. The injuries were a lacerated wound of the scalp, simple fracture of the right femur, simple fracture of the 7th right rib and contusion of the right side of the chest wall. She developed contusion pneumonia complicated by purulent pleurisy of the right side. In time...

He was operated on on 2nd March, 1932, by the suprapubic method and 12 stones weighing 3 ounces were removed. Litholapaxy was not done because the man was very old and had bad cystitis. The largest number of stones so far removed is 9, according to Nelson's loose leaf surgery, while in this case 12 fair sized stones were removed. They were all smooth and faceted (see figure). The laboratory rep...

How Mining Releases Toxic Metals Large amounts of waste rock and tailings contaminated with toxic metals can be produced by mine sites. In the case of the Donlin Creek mine, there are only 0.072 ounces of gold for every ton of ore, a figure that does not take into account the waste rock. Toxic substances contained within the rock and tailings are more easily released once these substances are p...

was a distinct bulging between the sixth and seventh ribs in the posterior axillary line. The liver dulness began at the 4th intercostal space above, its lower border extended one inch below the margin of the ribs. The spleen was much enlarged, its lower border reaching to one inch below the umbilicus. The aspirating needle was inserted into the bulging prominence, and a little thick pus extrac...

The research group examined the effects of dietary supplementation on mice with 6 percent or 9 percent walnuts, which are equivalent to 1 ounce and 1.5 ounces per day, respectively, of walnuts in humans. This research stemmed from a previous cell culture study led by Dr. Chauhan that highlighted the protective effects of walnut extract against the oxidative damage caused by amyloid beta protein...

mous liver weighing nearly no ounces in which apparently the whole of the normal tissue had been replaced by a primary carcinoma. A somewhat similar case was that of a woman, fifty-one years of age, who also dropped dead in the street; she had no medical history, and yet at the post-mortem examination we found an abdomen apparently solid with an ovarian carcinoma, in which the coils of both lar...