In the report, “Notes from the Field: Lead Poisoning in an Infant Associated with a Metal Bracelet — Connecticut, 2016” on page 916, the second paragraph should have read “The parents reported that the child intermittently wore a handmade “homeopathic magnetic hematite healing bracelet” that they had purchased from an artisan at a local fair (Figure). The bracelet was described as “homeopathic,...

Are social movements responsible for their unfi nished agendas? Feminist successes in opening the professions to women paved the way for the emergence of the upper middle-class two-career household. These households sometimes hire domestic servants to accomplish their child care work. If, as I shall argue, this practice is unjust and furthers social inequality, then it poses a moral problem for...

The natural synchrony of the nuclear cycle within the plasmodium of the myxomycete Physarum polycephalum provides an opportunity to study, without the need for any cell treatment, the complex and transient patterns of replication intermediates generated during chromosomal replication. In this review, we focus on the parameters of replication kinetics from the synthesis of Okazaki fragments to t...

Psychiatric disorders are known to result from a strong interaction between genetic predisposition and environmental factors, mainly exposure to stressful events. Environmental events can modulate genes expression, possibly via epigenetic mechanisms, and affect onset/ expression of a disease [1]. Epigenetic mechanisms include, among others, post-transcriptional regulation by non-coding RNAs suc...

In “QuickStats: Age-Adjusted Percentage of Adults Aged ≥18 Years Who Were Never in Pain, in Pain Some Days, or in Pain Most Days or Every Day in the Past 6 Months, by Employment Status — National Health Interview Survey, United States, 2016,” on page 796, the caption should have read as follows: “In 2016, 38.1% of adults aged ≥18 years never had pain, 42.6% had pain on some days, and 19.4% had ...

The auditory brainstem implant (ABI) for patients was originally developed for patients with neurofibromatosis type 2 (NF2) in order to electrically stimulate the cochlear nucleus complex. Drs. William House and William Hitselberger first used the ABI in such a patient in 1979, who continues to use it daily. Patients with NF2 usually have bilateral vestibular schwannomas (VS) necessitating tumo...

Investigators since Freud have appreciated that memories of the people, places, activities and emotions of daily life are reflected in dreams but are typically so fragmented that their predictability is nil. The mechanisms that translate such memories into dream images remain largely unknown. New research targeting relationships between dreaming, memory and the hippocampus is producing a new th...

Our previous work reported that KCa3.1 (IKCa) channels are expressed in CA1 hippocampal pyramidal cells and contribute to the slow afterhyperpolarization that regulates spike accommodation in these cells. The current report presents data from single cell RT-PCR that further reveals mRNA in CA1 cells that corresponds to the sequence of an IKCa channel from transmembrane segments 5 through 6 incl...