Aspirin therapy for cancer: it is never too late

Smoking Cessation: It Is Never Too Late

Public health and smoking are old enemies because smoking is among the 10 leading causes of ill health on a global scale and is also possible to prevent, as repeatedly reported (1). In both developed and developing countries, smoking takes its heavy toll of lives every year, both directly and indirectly, through exposure to passively inhaled tobacco smoke (2) or via feto-placental effects. Much...

Smoking cessation in heart failure: it is never too late.

When is it too late for cardiac resynchronization therapy?

Lehmann et al.1 pointed out that taken together, the large cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) trials included 10,803 patients, the majority of who were in congestive heart failure (CHF) New York Heart Association (NYHA) class III, but only 451 patients (4.2%) were class IV. The role of CRT in NYHA class IV patients remained uncertain until recently when Lindenfeld et al.2 reported the resu...

Is it too late for PAKE?

The most common web authentication technique in use today is password authentication via an HTML form, where a user types her password directly into a web page from the site to which she wishes to authenticate herself. The problem with this approach is that it relies on the user to determine when it is safe to enter her password. To resist phishing and other social engineering attacks, a user m...

Complementary Medicine Research: It Is Never Too Late for the Future.

When the founding fathers and mothers of our journal consulted – nearly a quarter of a century ago – about the plans of establishing a new journal with the scope of research in complementary medicine, the field was young in Germany and elsewhere. Dieter Melchart, one of the founders of the journal, had established the Münchner Modell only a few years ago, and I had just finished my PhD thesis. ...