Credit to Dr. Marlow.

Profile: Dr Bourne’s identity - credit where credit’s due

be responsible for saving hundreds if not thousands of lives is no mean feat. It ought to bring appreciation and recognition. However, for Dr Harold Bourne, a man whose actions prevented innumerable deaths and misery, this was not the case. The reasons why such a state of affairs came to pass are tied up in the story of an individual's fight for justice with no fear of the consequences: one man...

Anticipating Information Needs: Budzik, Hammond, Marlow, Scheinkman

In recent years, we have experienced an explosion in the amount of information available online. Unfortunately, tools which allow users to access this information are still quite rudimentary. Users are forced to express their information needs in boolean query languages. More, results returned are often unnecessarily redundant and poor in quality, partly because the user is unable to specify hi...

This is dedicated to our former chairman Dr. Mahmoud Rohani

Response to Dr. Olshansky.

I enjoyed Dr. Olshansky’s gloomy take on the data relating to healthy life expectancy (HLE). As usual with his writings, the essay is clear and thoughtful, but the available data do not support his pessimistic conclusions. First he sets up a straw man offering that, “life extension in the future would probably not yield the same amount of healthy life as it did in the 1980s,” but our argument i...

Reply to Dr. Weiskirchen.

TO THE EDITOR: We would like to thank Dr. Weiskirchen (5) for his interest in our recent publication (3). As we mentioned in the DISCUSSION and as pointed out by Dr. Weiskirchen, the absence of protein data in our adenovirus model represents a limitation of our study. Regarding the RNA expression, we also expected to find a greater difference in ccn1/cyr61 gene expression in the mice instilled ...