Denton Arthur Cooley, MD

Denton Arthur Cooley, MD.

Denton Arthur Cooley, MD, a pioneering heart surgeon, died November 18, 2016, at age 96. He was born in Houston, TX, on August 22, 1920, to Ralph Clarkson Cooley and Mary Fraley Cooley. From the beginning, Cooley’s career in medicine and his contributions to humanity seem to have been foreshadowed. His father was a prominent Houston dentist, and the attending obstetrician at his birth was Dr Er...

In memoriam: Arthur L. Rosenbaum, MD (1940-2010).

The ophthalmology community, and that of pediatric ophthalmology in particular, lost a shining star when Arthur L. Rosenbaum, MD, passed away on June 22, 2010, at the age of 69, after a long and difficult illness. Dr Rosenbaum was the Brindell and Milton Gottlieb Professor of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Vice Chair of the Department of Ophthalmology, and Chief of the Division of Pediatric Ophthalmo...

Robert Arthur Kyle, MD: a conversation with the editor.

The: Cooley Syndrome

Cooley's erythroblastic anaemia has been reported in England before (Moncrieff and Whitby, 1934), but, with the two doubtful exceptions of a girl aged nineteen with a negative calcium balance, a marrow showing changes as in osteitis fibrosa and normal erythrocyte variability, mentioned by Vaughan (1936) and an infant with an English father 'of Southern European type' (Bush, 1937), only in child...

Evolution: a theory in crisis (Michael Denton)

This review consists of a summary, criticism and conclusion of this now classic book. At first the title of this book withheld me from buying it. Crisis? I studied biology and specialised in genetics and evolution, but I never heard of a crisis in Darwinism. Yes, I noticed problems and controversies, the theory was incomplete, but crisis? Now I've got the book from a friend (1) and I read it. C...