Is Hypoesthesia of the Malleolus a Subtle Neurological Sign in Anxiety?

This study examined the presence of neurological soft signs, an accessible diagnostic instrument, in patients with anxiety. Individuals with anxiety were more likely to manifest hypoesthesia than healthy controls, and patients who showed hypoesthesia exhibited greater symptoms of anxiety and depression.

[The ethics of treatment: a proposal having a future for nurses and health companies].

This article is the fruit of various circumstances. In the first place, it is the result of a long reflection shared by its authors; it is also the proof of the primary interests the authors hold specific time; and lastly, it is the reflection of our opinion regarding how nurses should with their compromise a future treating patients.

Discrimination of pathogenic clinical isolates and laboratory strains of Bacillus cereus by NMR-based metabolomic profiling.

Six different Bacillus cereus strains were selected from two different ecotypes: (1) three commonly used laboratory strains that are considered avirulent, and (2) three clinical isolates from meningitis patients. Screening of genomic DNA for the presence of genes encoding known toxins gave no candidate genes that were unambiguously able to distinguish between the two groups. However, the application of multivariate pattern-recognition methods to metabolite profiles derived from the different strains using 1H nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (metabolomics) was able to classify the different profiles.