Ampicillin: Rise Fall & Resurgence

Biologics and tuberculosis risk: the rise and fall of an old disease and its new resurgence.

Rise and fall.

If you travel almost anywhere in the world and talk to family physicians, you will find that they regard the British system of general practice as an ideal. Some of its central principles—including continuity of personal care, and acting as a ‘‘gatekeeper’’ for all hospital referrals— are widely envied, and have provided a model for other primary care systems. Yet British general practice is no...

The Rise and Fall of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process

This article examines the rise and fall of the Peace Process and questions the reason for which the United States of America was successful in bringing the two sides to the negotiating table during the 1990s. It investigates the reason for which the process ultimately failed, as well as the reason for which Washingtonwas unsuccessful in restarting the peace process in the past decade. It is arg...

Fall and rise of polypharmacy?

Early in the 20th century, in an era before the wide availability of effective drugs with established dose ranges and proven outcomes, the use of multiple drug combinations in individual tablets and capsules, described as polypharmacy, was common. Although there may have been a rational selection of agents sometimes, on more occasions a mixture was developed of dubious efficacy and rationale. W...

Mandarin-accented Fall, Rise and Fall-Rise F0 contours in Dutch

An experiment was conducted to study how Mandarin Chinese speakers of Dutch produced three Dutch pitch contours (Fall, Rise and Fall-rise) on final syllables in the intonational phrase. It was found that the Fall-Rise was the hardest contour for them to produce. In addition, there were substantial differences between the subjects with higher and those with lower proficiency in Dutch in the real...