Comment on Failure of Accused to Testify

Reply to comment on " Fault zone strength and failure criteria "

I thankLockner et al. [this issue], hereafter referred to as LBS, for their interest in this work. LBS suggest that I [Marone, 1995] misunderstood their analysis and that their proposed empirical relation is indeed valid. I do not agree. I do not deny that LBS have established some form of empirical relationship, only the specific form of the relation and its theoretical basis are at issue. The...

Indocyanine green accused.

T he concept of retinal vital staining is not new. There has however been renewed interest in the subject since indocyanine green (ICG) was introduced as a vital stain to highlight the internal limiting membrane (ILM) during macular surgery. ICG’s well known role in cardiac and choroidal angiography exploits its properties as a fluorophore, but its role as a macular vital stain relies on its pr...

FDA's counsel accused of being too close to drug industry.

189 Daniel Troy, chief counsel to the US Food and Drug Administration, is under fire for inviting drug companies to inform him of lawsuits against them so the FDA could help in their defence. “We can’t afford to get involved in every case—we have to pick our shots,” he said, advising them therefore to “make it sound like a Hollywood pitch.” Congressman Maurice Hinchey of New York charges Mr Tro...

[Comment on "Acute renal failure after intake of mushrooms"].

Cholesterol; is accused for the atherosclerosis proximal to myocardial bridging?