“A Uniquely Valuable Addition”

Ribociclib: a valuable addition to treatment options in breast cancer?

Antihormonal treatment is regarded as the prototype of targeted therapy. As early as 1896, George Thomas Beatson proposed surgical oophorectomy for the treatment of patients with locally advanced, inoperable breast cancer. While the underlying biological mechanisms were not understood in those days, the identification of steroid hormones and eventually the oestrogen receptor (ER) led to the suc...

A note on uniquely (nil) clean ring

A ring R is uniquely (nil) clean in case for any $a in R$ there exists a uniquely idempotent $ein R$ such that $a-e$ is invertible (nilpotent). Let $C =(A V W B)$ be the Morita Context ring. We determine conditions under which the rings $A,B$ are uniquely (nil) clean. Moreover we show that the center of a uniquely (nil) clean ring is uniquely (nil) clean.

Online lectures for students in dermatology: a replacement for traditional teaching or a valuable addition?

INTRODUCTION/OBJECTIVE Although the Internet, podcasts and multimedia have become a natural part of our life, these instruments still do not find widespread use in medical education. We aimed to increase the percentage of students benefiting from our lectures during their 6-month principal training period in dermatology by making lectures available online. METHODS To establish a baseline, we ...

Sperm DNA integrity testing: a valuable addition to the tool box of infertility clinicians

PrEP works and is a valuable addition to the HIV prevention toolkit.