It can be frustrating when you can?t catch some shut eye! And, you're not alone in your frustration ? sleep issues are very common. In fact, about 50 to 70 million Americans have reported having a hard time getting to sleep or staying asleep. These issues are critical to address because sleep plays an essential role in maintaining your health. Using medications to help you sleep may help, but a...

The science of consciousness has made great strides by focusing on the behavioral and neuronal correlates of experience. However, correlates are not enough if we are to understand even basic neurological fact; nor are they of much help in cases where we would like to know if consciousness is present: patients with a few remaining islands of functioning cortex, pre-term infants, non-mammalian sp...

Since the first intracoronary stent implantation, the design and ease of use of coronary stents have continued to improve, and the indications for their use have continued to expand from bailout procedures to now-routine implantation in patients with myocardial infarction. Coronary stenting reduces the risk of restenosis and the number of revascularizations compared to balloon angioplasty, but,...

The number of deaths reported as associated with anaesthesia in England and Wales has fallen dramatically during the past 20 years. But the problem of cardiac arrest occurring while the patient is under the care of the anaesthetist, though small, remains a serious one because few such patients survive, even with serious complications, and the question of litigation may arise. A series of 66 cas...

The worldwide interest in everyday culture, ways of living and doing things which underpin our sense of place is palpable. We have come to appreciate that there is an abundant culture out there with a rich array of meaning and significance. Nowhere is this more abundant than in Asia where outstanding examples of the continuous living/nourishing tradition of history are part of an intricate and ...