A Man in a Vessel, Once More

Responding to Covid-19 — A Once-in-a-Century Pandemic?

SARS-CoV-2 is a highly transmissible respiratory virus causing COVID-19, a disease that has become pandemic. It is the biggest public health concern of this century. The sudden emergence of the novel SARS-CoV-2 has rapidly evolved into a pandemic that posed a serious threat to global health and economy Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, solving immediate problems and preventing problems are two ...

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more.

The first issue of the World Journal of Critical Care Medicine (WJCCM), whose preparatory work was initiated on December 16, 2010, will be published on February 4, 2012. The WJCCM Editorial Board has now been established and consists of 105 distinguished experts from 27 countries. Our purpose of launching the WJCCM is to publish peer-reviewed, high-quality articles via an open-access online pub...

Cystic Lung Disease in a Young man

A 32-year-old man was admitted in the Emergency Department with acute dyspnea secondary to spontaneous pneumothorax. He had history of spontaneous pneumothorax 2 years ago.He was active cigarette smoker (10 pack/year). The family history was unremarkable for lung diseases. Additionally, he had no systemic complaints.The lung HRCT revealed multiple bizarre-shaped cysts distributed in both lungs ...

ISNfT a MOUSE MORE LIKE a MAN?

l acques Monod was saying fond o f "that 'an elephant is like an E. coli, only more so'. Mouse geneticists have long felt, and partially justified their research in the belief, that 'a human is like a mouse, only more so'. Many excellent mouse models of genetic disease support this belief 1. However, as more genetic models are identified in mice, more differences are being found between some of...

Divided Once More