OBJECTIVES Exercise is important in RA management. However, RA patients are less active than the general population. This qualitative study explores the perceptions of patients regarding the effects of exercise on joint health. METHODS A purposive sample of 12 female and 6 male RA outpatients [age: 23-76 years; disease duration: 2.5 months to 33 years; HAQ score: 0-2.13] participated in four ...

Under what conditions do people act dishonestly to help or hurt others? This paper addresses this question by examining the influence of a previously overlooked factor – the beneficiary or victim of dishonest acts. In two experiments, we randomly pair participants and manipulate their wealth levels through an initial lottery. We then observe how inequity between partners influences the likeliho...

Ninety-six Colombian children (mean age = 7.7 years) and adolescents (mean age = 14.6 years) made judgments about stealing and physical harm in the abstract and in the context of survival and revenge. All participants judged it wrong to steal or hurt others because of considerations with justice and welfare, and most also judged it wrong to engage in such actions even when they can aid in survi...

In some recent high profile NHS scandals patients and their families have been failed horribly—think Mid Staffs, Morecambe Bay, and Southern Health. Hurt can be compounded by complacent, obfuscatory responses to complaints. It can be hard to defend the reputation of NHS staff amid justifiable anger. You can’t redress wrongs for one group by wronging another, but rebalancing the perspective can ...

I was gratified to learn that Dr. Kim and colleagues found the Iowa Satisfaction with Anesthesia Scale [1] useful for comparing patient satisfaction between dexmedetomidine and propofol/alfentanil groups during cataract surgery [2]. Fung and colleagues found reliability and validity for cataract surgery patients among English speaking patients [3]. A recent multicenter center showed reliability...

We investigate how individual well being is a ected by unemployment An alyzing German panel data on life satisfaction we nd that unemployment has a large and negative e ect for male individuals The e ect is large enough to increase the probability that a mid aged male is dissatis ed by more than percentage points We decompose the total well being costs of unemployment and nd that for males at l...

More than 50% of new HIV infections in the United States occur in men who have sex with men (MSM). Recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has shown a resurgence of the HIV epidemic particularly in young MSM. The factors driving this recent rise in HIV infections have not yet been identified. In this issue, Hurt et al present striking data indicating that many young MSM ...