Challenging Regeneration to Transform Medicine

Proteomics challenging medicine

The study of the genome dictated that the whole is more than the sum of its parts; genes do not function independently but in networks. The impact of this understanding was explosive. It acknowledged the concept that this interplay of genes is at least equally significant to their individual functions, and indicated that genome alone cannot describe the whole of an organism, not without the stu...

Periodontal Regeneration: Promising and Challenging for Periodontal Complex Regeneration

Periodontitis is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases in human beings, characterized by irreversible destruction on tooth supporting tissues such as alveolar bone, Periodontal Ligaments (PDL) and cement. The pathogenesis involves a complex interaction between the host’s immune response to microbial colony localized in periodontal part, and modifying host factors, including smoking, gen...

Marketing family medicine: challenging misconceptions.

As medical students, we have seen considerable misrepresentation of FM and regard this as a marketing failure in the early years of medical school. Negative aspects are often exaggerated, and positive characteristics are downplayed. Undersold features include FM’s opportunity for diversity and flexibility of career, challenge of practice, and ability to “hold its own” alongside any other medica...

Startling technologies promise to transform medicine.

Answers to Nephrology : Challenging Cases Update in Internal Medicine – 2016

1. A. The sodium-glucose transporter-2 (SGLT-2) inhibitors, empaglifloxin (Jardiance®), dapagliflozin (Farxiga®), and canagliflozin (Invokana®) inhibit proximal tubular glucose reabsorption resulting in renal glucosuria. These drugs can cause weight loss, natriuresis with volume depletion, hypotension, bacterial or fungal UTI, and ketoacidosis even in Type 2 diabetics. Ketoacidosis is more like...