Addressing Consumer Desires for Sustainable Food Systems: Contentions and Compromises.

Consumers and social movement activists have been the driving force to create alternative, sustainable food systems over the past 100 years. Although larger agribusiness market players and the state were at first reluctant to respond to these concerns, as organic food products (the most prominent example of alternative food) became a viable economic market, these market players embraced them. The international trade of organic food has developed into a major agricultural and retail sector, but with this growth many of the varied original critiques of conventional, industrial farming practices have yet to be adequately addressed.

Evaluation of Mesalt dressings and continuous wet saline dressings in ulcerating metastatic skin lesions.

The care of chronic ulcerating metastatic skin lesions is not well established or supported by research. Because these cancerous lesions may be present for many years, patients and their caregivers are confronted with ongoing dressing care to control and prevent odor, bleeding, drainage, and infection. Eleven patients in this study compared Mesalt dressings (Sancella Incorporated, Oakville, Ontario, Canada) with continuous wet saline dressings using a crossover design.

Reverse isolation: what patients perceive.

This study looked at patients' perceptions of reverse isolation while undergoing autologous bone marrow transplant (ABMT). Persons in reverse isolation experience both obvious and less evident stressors. To understand patients' perceptions of these stressors, semi-structured audiotaped interviews were held periodically during isolation (21-25 days) with six subjects receiving ABMT.