This week’s Feedback column (that I write) in New Scientist magazine has four segments. Here are bits of each of them: Increasing perimeters — Some people are big on holidays – bigger than they were before those holidays. A team at the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the University of Valladolid, Spain, sized up some first-year undergraduate nursing students, […]
The title of this medical report alludes mysteriously to “the importance of an expanding waistline”: “Unexpected outcome (positive or negative) including adverse drug reactions Acyclovir-induced acute renal failure and the importance of an expanding waist line,” Ahmed Seedat and Georgia Winnett, BMJ Case Reports 2012; doi:10.1136/bcr-2012-006264. The authors, at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals NHS, […]