Do men undergoing sterilizing cancer treatments have a fertile future?

Do portfolios have a future?

While portfolios have seen an unprecedented surge in popularity, they have also become the subject of controversy: learners often perceive little gain from writing reflections as part of their portfolios; scholars question the ethics of such obligatory reflection; and students, residents, teachers and scholars alike condemn the bureaucracy surrounding portfolio implementation in competency-base...

Why do men have nipples?

Every day the home page of my internet service offers a selection of trivia including news of celebrities who are either sleeping with each other or splitting up. There is also usually an item of popular science, often packaged as ‘the latest research’. If one of these catches my eye I sometimes click on the link to read it in more detail. Two items I recently followed up in this way were heade...

Carbapenems: do they have a future?

Do Indexing and Abstracting Have a Future?*

The World Wide Web presents information access problems orders of magnitude greater than any encountered before. These problems are identified and discussed. Although the intellectual indexing of the entire Web is impossible and, in any case, not worthwhile, selective indexing of high value resources (e.g., by means of specialized portals) is essential. The summarization of Web resources (i.e.,...

Why do old men have big ears?

In July 1993, 19 members of the south east Thames faculty of the Royal College of General Practitioners gathered at Bore Place, in Kent, to consider how best to encourage ordinary general practitioners to carry out research. Some members favoured highly structured research projects; others were fired by serendipity and the observations of everyday practice. Someone said, 'Why do old men have bi...