Do gluten-free consumers eat more dessert?
A friend, who is also a gluten-free baker and chef, commented to me that when she samples her food to consumers gluten-free customers seem to desire a sweeter product than those who eat gluten. She is a European trained chef and doesn’t produce the icing-laden super sweet desserts that so often abound in this country. [...]
Nonhepatic hyperammonemias
—may be underappreciated causes of encephalopathy in hospitalized patients. I recently blogged one example of a nonhepatic hyperammonemia here. Today I found a review in the American Journal of Medicine on the topic. Among the several causes valproic acid, either in therapeutic or excessive levels of use, is the best known. Other causes include infection [...]
More Friends on Facebook Does NOT Equal a Larger Amygdala
Bottom image adapted from Fig. 2 of Schumann et al. (2010). Neuroanatomy of the human amygdala postmortem. Nissl-stained section of amygdala nuclei. The amygdala is a subcortical structure located within the medial temporal lobes. It consists of a number of different nuclei, or collections of neurons delineated by commonalities in morphology and connectivity. The amygdala [...]
Special issue: Dynamics of innovation and competitive strategy in transportation research
World Review of Intermodal Transportation Research 3(3) 2010 Long-haul market entry by value-based airlines: dual business models support product innovation Innovation for sustainability: the transformation of the transportation system Sustainable port innovations: barriers and enablers for successful implementation How high will Russian aviation fly? The drop-lot location problem on a supply chain Establishing intermodal terminals
Those dumb, greedy bone crunchers
My orthopedic surgery colleagues sometimes facetiously say to me “You′re the real doctor. I’m just a dumb bone cruncher.” We know that isn’t really true. Well, most of us. Billy Rubin, an ID doc and part time hospitalist, rants: One of the central ironies of American medicine is that several of these very fine students, [...]
