DISEASE—A NEGLECTED FACTOR IN HISTORY.*

Experience - the neglected success factor in enterprises?

The effective use of experience as a valuable resource can give companies a competitive edge in a world characterised by an ageing workforce and globalisation. An online survey was conducted in Austria, Germany and Switzerland to find out managers’ attitudes towards experience and if and how they capture, use and disseminate it. The results show that the majority consider experience an importan...

Hyperglycemia, a Neglected Factor during Cancer Progression

Recent evidence from large cohort studies suggests that there exists a higher cancer incidence in people with type 2 diabetes (DM2). However, to date, the potential reasons for this association remain unclear. Hyperglycemia, the most important feature of diabetes, may be responsible for the excess glucose supply for these glucose-hungry cells, and it contributes to apoptosis resistance, oncogen...

Host nutritional status: the neglected virulence factor.

The emergence of new infectious diseases and old diseases with new pathogenic properties is a burgeoning worldwide problem. Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) are just two of the most widely reported recent emerging infectious diseases. What are the factors that contribute to the rapid evolution of viral species? Various hypotheses have been ...

Drug load in clinical trials: a neglected factor.

Thepathologyof spongeorangeband diseasea¡ecting the Caribbean barrel spongeXestospongiamuta

Thepathologyof spongeorangeband diseasea¡ecting the Caribbean barrel spongeXestospongiamuta Hilde Angermeier, Janine Kamke, Usama R. Abdelmohsen, Georg Krohne, Joseph R. Pawlik, Niels L. Lindquist & Ute Hentschel Julius-von-Sachs-Institute for Biological Sciences, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany; Biocenter, Division of Electron Microscopy, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany...