Austrian universities come under scrutiny...

Checkpoint proteins come under scrutiny

Details are emerging of the interactions between the kinetochore and various spindle checkpoint proteins that ensure that sister chromatids are equally divided between daughter cells during cell division.

Medical credit cards come under scrutiny.

Credit cards that can be used only for health care expenses are growing in popularity in the United States, a trend that is putting money in the pockets of medical professionals but may be hurrying patients down the road to personal bankruptcy. Over the past three or four years, US financial institutions have begun partnering with health care providers to offer medical credit cards to people wi...

Under Scrutiny

Folic acid under scrutiny

A consideration of the absorption and metabolism of folic acid in human subjects is timely, owing to the recent recommendation by the UK Government’s Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition that a mandatory folic acid fortification programme be implemented in the UK. In this issue of the British Journal of Nutrition, Wright et al. take us through the processes of absorption and metabolism of...

ContSys under Ontological Scrutiny

EN ISO 13940, commonly known as ContSys, is an international standard that provides a system of concepts to support continuity of care and semantic interoperability of information systems. ContSys provides domain-specific terms, definitions and relationships, but was not developed as an ontology. Nevertheless, we think that it might benefit from the application of more formal, ontological analy...