British chemists warned of impending stagnation

Soft robotics for chemists.

In areas from assembly of machines to surgery, and from deactivation of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) to unmanned flight, robotics is an important and rapidly growing field of science and technology. It is currently dominated by robots having hard body plans—constructions largely of metal structural elements and conventional joints—and actuated by electrical motors, or pneumatic or hydrau...

Residency crisis in offing, provinces warned.

Treatment of impending stroke.

THE TREATMENT options available to the physician who wishes to prevent impending stroke are limited. This is because over half of the patients who have a cerebral infarction, have it without prior warning so that there is no time for a physician to provide anything in the way of prevention. Among those patients who do have warning symptoms suggesting impending stroke, the natural history of suc...

The Chemists' War on Disease

For nearly a century and a half scientists have been studying ways of immunizing people against various diseases by artificial methods. Working mostly by trial and error they have devised reasonably safe vaccines and antisera for many diseases with a resulting spectacular decrease in mortality. T h e usual proceedure for vaccination is to inject the patient with the diseases-producing organisms...

Beware of all types of bat exposure, BC MDs warned.