A Carbon Cloud with Platinum Lining

HIV cardiomyopathy: a dark cloud with a silver lining?

A wide variety of cardiac problems have been reported in patients infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). These include pericardial effusion, pulmonary hypertension and right heart failure, infective endocarditis, and tumours such as lymphoma and Kaposi's sarcoma.' However, left ventricular dysfunction caused by myo-carditis or cardiomyopathy is emerging as the most important card...

Every silver lining has a cloud.

Every cloud has a silver lining.

phamide, and Rituximab Versus FCR Alone in Subjects With Relapsed Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia] study).8 If the results of this pivotal trial confirm the findings of Byrd et al,7 it will have an important influence on the treatment strategy of patients with CLL. In recent years, 4 drug combination therapies with FCR and alemtuzumab or FCR and mitoxantrone in refractory/relapsed CLL patients wer...

The Silver Lining of Cloud Computing

“Due to decades of technology acquisitions to fuel growing businesses, enterprises are now facing a breaking point with their IT systems. Some systems can’t share information and workloads, servers are highly underutilized and the cost of energy is becoming greater than the value of the systems the energy powers. In some cases, nearly 70 percent of companies’ IT budgets can be devoted to managi...

Microglial response to viral challenges: every silver lining comes with a cloud.

Microglia, the resident macrophages of the Central Nervous System (CNS) mediate key innate immune responses against foreign invasions within the CNS and clear the debris after any damage to the nearby tissue. Blood Brain Barrier (BBB) segregates the CNS from the rest of the lymphatic system and prevents the entry of foreign molecules into the brain. Pathogens still cross the BBB via different m...