Which farmers are most likely to adopt genetically modified (GM) versions of African carbohydrate staples (also known as orphan crops)? This study investigates the variables that determine attitudes and intentions to adopt ...

Consumer resistance against GM crops is still substantial in the United States and Europe. We conducted an internet survey in the United States and Norway with more than 1,000 respondents in each country to estimate ...

Altered mental status (AMS) is a challenging symptom, commonly encountered in the acute inpatient setting. The underlying etiology could be metabolic, infectious, toxic, cardiac, neurological or trauma. We present a ...

[Case]: A 75-year old Caucasian female (height, 154.2 cm, weight, 49.9 kg) was transferred to a tertiary academic medical center from a rehabilitation facility for the management of new onset, foul smelling, non-draining, ...

This article explores the potential association between co-administration of vancomycin and piperacillin-tazobactam with the development of acute kidney injury (AKI) when compared with vancomycin and other beta lactam ...

Question: I ordered serologic testing for Lyme disease for one of my patients and I’m not sure how to interpret the results of the Western blot. The blot shows a few dark bands, but the report indicates it is not sufficient ...

Volunteerism is common in the United States, though less is known about volunteerism among medical professionals. We aimed to record and compare volunteer activities among hospitalists and non-hospitalists in academic and ...

An immense body of work already exists with respect to the relationship between race and the modern landscape which demonstrates the depths of the racial dimension of America’s urban development. Statistics show that in ...

Artists have lent their voices to many activist initiatives, and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and 1990s was no exception. Largely, the art created during this era was propaganda, though some works were a reflection on ...

Much has been written about the vast and violent conflict that was the American Civil War, exploring every social, political, and economic aspect. And this body of literature continues to grow. Scholarship focused on the ...

Over the years, video games have seen increasing acceptance as a classification of art by individuals other than those traditionally defined as gamers, such as politicians and educators. Art as defined by the Oxford English ...

Subjectivity is a constant in the human mind; our brains are composed of our memories, which can only be created subjectively. A memory is the re-creation of reality to help our minds understand the world around us and ...

Recent studies have suggested that a greater number of older adults prefer to age in place rather than move to a retirement home (e.g., Cohen-Mansfield, Ali, Frank, 2010). One outcome of this trend is that a larger ...

A black teenager named Michael Brown is shot by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. The inferno of media surrounding the city begins to explain the shooting. At first, they are concerned with specifics of the ...

The topic being addressed, continued existence of sexual exploitation and trafficking, is of crucial importance to the researcher due to a significant lack of research about what works and what does not work to reduce the ...

Observations in the history of Missouri Hospitalist journal by its creator and editor.

As hospitalists, we often care for patients who either present with diarrhea or develop diarrhea during their hospital visit. We have learned to think of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) early. In the United States, ...

Question and answer regarding a patient who became acutely thrombocytopenic.

In all four years I went to high school, I only had one history class that discussed black history. The textbook talked about the Civil Rights Movement, but did not talk about any other achievements of black people. I did ...