ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR
- 9/20/2010
The fun theory
- 9/20/2010
‘Talking’ to vegetative state patients
- 9/20/2010
Social networks transmit healthy –and unhealthy–behaviours
We have added the new world of electronic social networks to our face-to-face connections. Humans are social animals and our attitudes, emotions and behaviours are strongly influenced by our social groups. - 9/20/2010
Banish the white-coat effect
- 9/20/2010
Handwash beepers
A fancy pedometer that keeps track of hand hygiene is how an American physician describes his invention aimed at preventing hospital infections. - 9/20/2010
Green burial
- 9/20/2010
End-of-life issues among topics at nurses’ annual gathering
They care for the sickest patients, who sometimes die on their watch. When they do, critical care nurses want to make their final days and death as peaceful and painless as possible - 9/20/2010
The land of fire and ice
Even beneath plumes of volcanic ash, Iceland’s historic and physical charms can’t be denied