BACKGROUND This paper reports on health inequalities awareness-raising workshops conducted with senior New Zealand health sector staff as part of the Government's goal of reducing inequalities in health, education, employment and housing. METHODS The workshops were based on a multi-method needs assessment with senior staff in key health institutions. The workshops aimed to increase the knowle...

frequent simulation and irritation of nmda receptors by glutamate mediators can lead to burning pain, allodynia and hyperalgesia, even after stopping the irritant factor. opioid-induced hyperalgesia and peripheral nerve injuries in lower extremities orthopedic surgeries can also make the same symptoms, which sometimes make it difficult to diagnose it from causalgia (type ii complex regional pai...

Although the multiplication of bacteriophages (phages) has a substantial impact on the biosphere, comparatively little is known about how the external environment affects phage production. Here we report that sub-lethal concentrations of certain antibiotics can substantially stimulate the host bacterial cell’s production of some virulent phage. For example, a low dosage of cefotaxime, a cephalo...

atrioventricular groove rupture is a rare, albeit mortal, complication following mitral valve surgery. avoidance is the best strategy but it cannot fully prevent the occurrence of this complication. several repair techniques have been described with varying success rates; however, the rarity of the complication precludes consensus about the safest technique. here we report two cases of posterio...

Many of the links of religiousness with health, well-being, and social behavior may be due to religion's influences on self-control or self-regulation. Using Carver and Scheier's (1998) theory of self-regulation as a framework for organizing the empirical research, the authors review evidence relevant to 6 propositions: (a) that religion can promote self-control; (b) that religion influences ho...

People divide their time unequally among their social contacts due to time constraints and varying strength of relationships. It was found that high diversity of social communication, dividing time more evenly among social contacts, is correlated with economic well-being both at macro and micro levels. Besides economic well-being, it is not clear how the diversity of social communication is als...

reports that have appeared in Science (3, 4), these results merit further investigation. Bemer and Landis indicate that during the Late Cretaceous [75 to 95 million years ago (Ma)] the 02 content of the atmosphere was "greater than 30 percent," whereas in the Eocene-Oligocene values were 21%, as today. Lovelock (2) asserts that "at 25% oxygen even damp twigs and grass of a rainforest would igni...

Causal evidence for the built environment's role in supporting physical activity is needed to inform land use and transportation policies. This quasi-longitudinal residential relocation study compared within-person changes in self-reported transportation walking, transportation cycling, and overall physical activity during the past 12 months among adults who did and did not move to a different ...