Sudden cardiac death (SCD) is a major public health problem in North America, responsible for approximately 400 000 deaths annually.1,2 Most episodes of SCD in ambulatory populations result from ventricular tachyarrhythmias,3 whereas bradyarrhythmias may be important in some populations, notably hospitalized patients with advanced heart failure4 (Figure 1). A prior article in this series by Zip...

e question whether we can aff ord open-ended intensive care unit (ICU) care should be answered with ‘yes we can, but ...’ [1]. Th e discussion is polarized. Th e US system will crash because everybody is right when it comes to openended care, and in Europe endless care is prohibited or rationed. With polarization, we lose sight of the middle path, where truth and solutions usually are found. Th...

A model illustrates the intergenerational transmission of poverty through the effects of shocks to family income on children’s general education and health and subsequently on their capacity to work and earn as adults. Evidence for 19th-century Britain shows that being fatherless, and so likely poor, had an adverse effect on children’s human capital acquisition. However, policy intervention in ...

The high cost of health care can produce severe financial shock on poor households that can ill afford it. Faced with catastrophic health care spending, poor households are forced to reduce their expenses on basic items such as food, transportation, and education; use their savings, if there are any; or borrow in order to cope with the medical bills of one or more of their members. Prolonged—an...

Blood examination was conducted for the four Gidra-speaking village groups in Papua New Guinea, who were characterized by high Fe intake and high malaria prevalence with marked inter-village differences. The northern riverine villagers, whose Fe intake was higher than the other three village groups, did not suffer from Fe-deficiency anaemia in their malaria-endemic environment; nor did the inla...