Curtain Rises on a “Phyusical”

Glybera's second act: the curtain rises on the high cost of therapy.

On final rises and fall-rises in German and Swedish

This study explores the intonational signalling of a ‘request address’ in German and Swedish. Data from 16 speakers (9 Germans, 7 Swedes) were elicited under controlled conditions, and intonation contours produced on the test phrase “Wallander?” were classified according to their phrase-final pattern. Both ‘rises’ and ‘fall-rises’ were produced frequently by both Germans and Swedes, which is in...

A hospital rises in Haiti.

Climate change rises on the 2007 agenda

Kassie Siegel, also of the centre, said: " This is the beginning of a sea change in the way this country addresses global warming. There is still time to save polar bears but we must reduce global warming pollution immediately. " The government's announcement reported the observations that Arctic sea ice had declined in late summer by 7.7 per cent, and that the perennial sea ice area had declin...

Hepcidin: inflammation's iron curtain.

Editorial Hepcidin: inflammation's iron curtain Rheumatologists and their patients are the beneficiaries of a recently identified peptide, hepcidin (Table 1). Isolated from human urine and plasma in the year 2000 [1, 2], hepcidin appears to be the long-sought iron-regulatory hormone responsible for the anaemia of chronic disease [3, 4]. It is more than that: it is an acute-phase reactant, respo...